While deer hunting at my UP deer camp 1995. I was in the hardwoods setting by a very old big red oak on a hill over looking a cedar swamp. Evening comes and soon I hear a squealing close by of squirrels quarreling. I turn to see 2 near a knot hole and jawing at each other. Soon they slip inside the tree only to be replaced by another and another to the count of 9. They were the gray phase of the fox squirrels.


I went back to work and I was still stressed out from the job so after a week I resigned from the job took a weeks vacation and returned to the UP for a week Of muzzle loader deer season and I took my Ruger 77 22lr. I would hunt deer till about 11:00Am then hunt squirrels till lunch about a hour and a half. Before the week was over I had shot 14 squirrels from that big Oak tree near that knot hole.


Al