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[Caustic Burno]

Squirrel season opens
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[skyhightree1]

Squirrel season opens
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Nice... I haven't been here but ours came in the beginning of September I love eating tree rats. This weekend our bow season starts but im not going. Seems older I get the less I like sweating and getting eaten by skeeters so I only go once or twice a year on cool days.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I love to squirrel hunt also gives me a chance to scout the acorn crop and the scrape lines.
Doctor took my bow away so guess I will just squirrel hunt or carry my 32-40 and shoot unwanted rooters.
Really like January and February hunting with my dog.

 

[Brute 23]

How do you like to eat them? My buddies had squirrel in like a gravy mix with rice and some other vegies at deer camp last year. It was pretty good.

 

[skyhightree1]

I love to squirrel hunt also gives me a chance to scout the acorn crop and the scrape lines.
Doctor took my bow away so guess I will just squirrel hunt or carry my 32-40 and shoot unwanted rooters.
Really like January and February hunting with my dog.

Why not try to get you a crossbow I love mine. You can get the crank crossbow so you don't have to cock it by brute force. I love squirrel hunting but since the .22 shortage I save those for hogs and use shotgun for squirrels now. I like the January hunt for them too.

 

[Margonme]

Squirrel season opens
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Good for you CB. I grew up squirrel hunting. Dad was the best at frying squirrel.

Fun to be out this time of year. Enjoy it!

 

[Rafter S]

How do you like to eat them?

A guy I used to be on a lease with would fix them with gravy, and then serve them with fresh home-grown fall potatoes. Pretty hard to beat.

 

[Caustic Burno]

How do you like to eat them? My buddies had squirrel in like a gravy mix with rice and some other vegies at deer camp last year. It was pretty good.

My all time favorite is the way my grandma would serve them fried for breakfast with homemade cat head biscuits with ribbon came syrup

 

[TN Cattle Man]

I love to squirrel hunt, but only after the weather turn colder... actually like it best after the first frost. Around here, our squirrels get "wolves" really bad (they are actually the Bot Fly parasite). I really enjoy frying them up over a campfire!!

 

[Caustic Burno]

I love to squirrel hunt, but only after the weather turn colder... actually like it best after the first frost. Around here, our squirrels get "wolves" really bad (they are actually the Bot Fly parasite). I really enjoy frying them up over a campfire!!

Never found a wolve in a squirrel now our rabbits have plenty

 

[Craig Miller]

Same here TN. They opened ours earlier but there ain't no need in going until after the frost.

 

[True Grit Farms]

Keep your eyes peeled the snakes are crawling here.

 

[f1tiger]

My father in law down in Kountze would fry the squirrels and we would have cat head biscuits and sawmill gravy or tomato gravy,now that was east Texas cooking ; worked with a gentleman ( maybe redneck) that brought a gallon bag of fried squirrel heads on the flight over to Saudi, stewardess told him he could not eat them on the plane and he replied as he got his carry on down with another bag of fried heads and said I have enough for everyone

 

[rla442]

I love to squirrel hunt also gives me a chance to scout the acorn crop and the scrape lines.
Doctor took my bow away so guess I will just squirrel hunt or carry my 32-40 and shoot unwanted rooters.
Really like January and February hunting with my dog.

32-40, there's a forgotten about cartridge. I have an old Winchester in 32-40.

 

[rla442]

My father in law down in Kountze would fry the squirrels and we would have cat head biscuits and sawmill gravy or tomato gravy,now that was east Texas cooking ; worked with a gentleman ( maybe redneck) that brought a gallon bag of fried squirrel heads on the flight over to Saudi, stewardess told him he could not eat them on the plane and he replied as he got his carry on down with another bag of fried heads and said I have enough for everyone

F1tiger, enlighten me on sawmill gravy and tomato gravy. They sound interesting-the gravy, not so much for the fried squirrel heads tho.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I love to squirrel hunt also gives me a chance to scout the acorn crop and the scrape lines.
Doctor took my bow away so guess I will just squirrel hunt or carry my 32-40 and shoot unwanted rooters.
Really like January and February hunting with my dog.

32-40, there's a forgotten about cartridge. I have an old Winchester in 32-40.

Loaded with 22 grains H4895 with a 170 grain bullet gets 1870 fps making a dang fine 125 yard deer or hog killer.
I make my brass out of 30-30 as the 32-40 was the parent cartridge
Mine is a smokeless I don't know of any factory produced hunting ammo today.

 

[Caustic Burno]

My father in law down in Kountze would fry the squirrels and we would have cat head biscuits and sawmill gravy or tomato gravy,now that was east Texas cooking ; worked with a gentleman ( maybe redneck) that brought a gallon bag of fried squirrel heads on the flight over to Saudi, stewardess told him he could not eat them on the plane and he replied as he got his carry on down with another bag of fried heads and said I have enough for everyone

Squirrel hunting was bigger than deer hunting in East Texas.
Clear cutting the thicket ended that in the 70's. Still some good pockets to hunt like Bannister WMA and the Big Thicket preserve.

 

[Craig Miller]

Squirrel hunting was bigger than deer hunting in East Texas.
Clear cutting the thicket ended that in the 70's. Still some good pockets to hunt like Bannister WMA and the Big Thicket preserve.

It was here too up until the 70s to 80s when people started seeing more deer. I know some older folks that went their whole lives hunting all the time that only got one deer ever. You still won't see very many around in the same place. Maybe two together in one place. Three maybe. I was up in arkansas visiting a couple months back and the were fifteen bucks in a field together.

 

[TexasBred]

My father in law down in Kountze would fry the squirrels and we would have cat head biscuits and sawmill gravy or tomato gravy,now that was east Texas cooking ; worked with a gentleman ( maybe redneck) that brought a gallon bag of fried squirrel heads on the flight over to Saudi, stewardess told him he could not eat them on the plane and he replied as he got his carry on down with another bag of fried heads and said I have enough for everyone

Squirrel hunting was bigger than deer hunting in East Texas.
Clear cutting the thicket ended that in the 70's. Still some good pockets to hunt like Bannister WMA and the Big Thicket preserve.

Don't think I ever hunted anything but squirrel until I was in my 30's. Dad never hunted anything else either. We always fried up the cat squirrels and young fox squirrels and mom would brown the older fox squirrels then put them in a stove top pressure cooker for a while. They'd then fall off the bone.

 

[skyhightree1]

My father in law down in Kountze would fry the squirrels and we would have cat head biscuits and sawmill gravy or tomato gravy,now that was east Texas cooking ; worked with a gentleman ( maybe redneck) that brought a gallon bag of fried squirrel heads on the flight over to Saudi, stewardess told him he could not eat them on the plane and he replied as he got his carry on down with another bag of fried heads and said I have enough for everyone

Squirrel hunting was bigger than deer hunting in East Texas.
Clear cutting the thicket ended that in the 70's. Still some good pockets to hunt like Bannister WMA and the Big Thicket preserve.

Don't think I ever hunted anything but squirrel until I was in my 30's. Dad never hunted anything else either. We always fried up the cat squirrels and young fox squirrels and mom would brown the older fox squirrels then put them in a stove top pressure cooker for a while. They'd then fall off the bone.

This may sound crazy but...Not everyone can cook squirrel... I had some that was tough as shoe leather..