Thats a good question. Now where do I start....Tactics....Good woodsmanship, now your trees and surroundings, be observant, pay attention, be patient, use your eyes, ears. You hear something fall out of a tree, you better look at it. There was a reason for that stick or walnut to fall, may not be a squirrel but you wont know that till you look. Look at everything that falls. You see a leaf or branch moving, even if it is windy, look at it. The wind is blowing, the surounding trees are moving insync with the other trees, but this one branch isnt, why? Possibly a squirrel. You hear something on the ground, running, look at it, even if it is a chipmunk. If you saw a chipmunk their earlier, but hear the same sound again, look back again. Could be a squirrel. I saw just that today. Squirrels make a few different sounds. Barking, squealing and screaching sounds. You have to find a squirrel in the area and watch him make the sounds to get the sounds pounded in your head for their are some birds that sound almost like the squirrel, but just slightly different. You will know what I mean when you see it. So if you hear one, follow the sound. Stalk it. Walk like a deer. Don't go tropping thru the woods like a heard of elephants. Stop and go, stop and go. Be observant while walking for you will more than likely see more squirrels other than the one you are after. Dont hesitate to shoot a passing by squirrel on your way to the barking squirrel. More than likely the barking squirrel will still be there. If he does stop barking, then just sit there til he starts back up or til you see or hear him in the trees. If you do shoot a squirrel, you dont have to run over and pick it up right away. There could be another squirrel the next tree over. Just wait a few minutes. Make sure you at least made a clean kill. After you shoot, listen for him to run. You dont hear anything, he's probably dead. But they have proved me wrong when I thought they were dead. Then I had to go over and get them. Lets see here...okok..on windy days especially, look for a dangling tail on a branch. Squirrels like to plaster them selves to the branch but for some reason, leave their tail justa dangling there....ive killed many squirrels looking for that. As soon as you get in the woods, stop and listen. On a frosty morning, dont even go in the woods yet. Stay on the outside and listen. You will hear them running on the frosty leaves and more than likely, you will see them too, because obviusly, there are no leaves on the trees this time of year. Say it just got done raining...your in the woods and hear drops of rain falling from the leaves, it stopped raining by the way, then you hear a lot of rain drops falling. You better look because 9 times outa 10, thats a squirrel. Usually you can move quietly because the floor is wet but you can still be loud, place your footsteps carefully. Look ahead before you walk, plan your movement to the tree. But try to keep your eyes on the squirrel at the same time. Sounds tricky but you will be able to do this with time and experience. Heres on....Squirrels are very territorial. All of a sudden you hear a lot of birds, black birds up here are migrating. You get 1000 or so birds in a squirrels tree, hes gonna be pissed. So he will start running up and down the tree, barking, doing everything he can to get rid of the birds. This is how I killed my first squirrel. A bunch of black birds landed in a tree, I saw a squirrel running up and down it barking, never attacked the birds....but I got him with no problems. Looks like im writing a book here....Oh yeah, squirrels migrate too. They move to where the food is. Well shoot, im going to go now. But I will write some more tomorrow sometime. Anything thing else you can think of or does anyone dissagree with anything I have mentioned?

Squirrel Master