find their food and you'll find them.

standing corn is an excellent place to look..hunt the edges and the trees surrounding the field..

nut bearing trees are also their favorite...acorns, walnuts, etc...


some squirrels do live in den trees (holey trees as you called them..) but many live in leaf nests you often see up in the trees..just look like balls of leaves up in the trees...

i find squirrel hunting a heck of alot like deer hunting...they have pretty good eye sight and hearing..they will bust you and climb a tree and "vanish"...i put one up a tree the other day and sat at the next tree over for nearly a half an hour...never seen it again so i shot his buddy...or maybe it was him and he came down another tree or something...they are tricky critters...

they spend their day on the ground gathering nuts and leaves for their nests..they climb the trees going to and from their nests, sitting in the sun on a limb, laying on a limb hiding from YOU or other predators, etc...they like to sit on stumps n such to eat...and often run across downed trees when they can opposed to on the forest floor...

theres 2 methods of squirrel hunting IMO...sitting and waiting (usually done in a food source or an area with a couple nests..)

or still hunting..which is ever so slowwwwly walking through areas that should have squirrels..food sources and or areas with nests...i prefer to still hunt on days when the forest is quiet...rained the night before, soft snow, etc..

if you see a squirrel and it runs up a tree and disappears, have a seat...most of the time, their patience runs short if you sit still and quiet and they will come out for a shot...

its a blast chasin bushy tales...i find it alot like deer hunting...i like to use a 22 with a scope as its quieter than a shotgun...but a shotgun works well....

keep scanning all the time...it can be difficult because they can be anywhere from the forest floor to the top of the trees...listen carefully...you can often hear them running in the leaves, their nails on tree bark, leaves limbs or nuts being knocked outta the tree, them barking at you, etc...

the early season, it seems like they spend more time in the trees gathering and knocking down nuts...after the nuts are down, they spend more time on the ground it seems...but you can never tell...keep an eye out for both...go slow, be quiet, shoot straight!