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I went out this morning and didn't see a thing except for the 2 does under my stand for bowhunting. I called my uncle up and he said everyone else he talked to didn't see anything either. Everybody thinks its not going to be a good year for squirrels.

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I'm about sick and tired of squirrels. I'm out bow hunting and see at least 20-30 squirrels every time im out. They scare the liven crap out of me, i always think a deer is coming and then it is just a squirrel.

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im not doing too bad with squirrels. i've got5 under my belt so far and eason opened just 3 weeks ago. and thats not all that bad for me :D

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I got 10 reds and a 3 greys in about 6-8 outings.

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Why don't you just stick'em deer-hunter??? I was at my uncles huntin' last year and we saw 2 does bout 60 yrds away from his house so i ran out and got bout 20-30 yrds away from them and my cousin came out on the porch and slammed the door, while I was in full draw puttin the pin on em!!! The deer spooked but a squirrel was bout 2oyrds away and I shot and missed it my 1 INCH. Right over his back!!![:@]

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At almost $30 per arrow I wont waste it on them. I did get so sick of them the other day i went out and in about 15 min. i had my limit of 6.

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Oh, never mind deerhunter, I don't blame you now!:D I was only shooting bout $12 an arrow.

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Wednesday the 5th, i went over to my inlaw's house. . . while there, me and my father-in-law were outside making faces at my 7month old boy (his 7month birthday). . . and we started watching 6 squirrels playing in a tree. . .

i handed him the boy and went to the truck and got the Rossi 22/410 youth gun and proceeded to shoot squirrels. . . shot the first one. . . . shot the second. . . . the second got up (using the 22 barrel) shot him again. . . he got up. . . gave up on the second squirrel and shot at the rest of 'em. . . didn't hit any of 'em. . .

so we took the boy inside. . . dad in law got his ruger 10/22 and i put the 410 barrel on the Rossi



2 hours later we had a squirrel in the top of a tree (40 yds up)

2 more hours, 70 shots with the 22 and half a dozen with the 410, that squirrel made it back down the tree and into his hole. . .

after we cried. . . . we thought maybe something was wrong with the guns so we target shot at pepsi cans (the pepsi logo is a good target at 40 yds) and we did excellent ! !

just another day in the life of a starving lead flinger. . . .

(before going back inside, my father-in-law shouted (at the tree with all the squirrels) you basturds! next time i'll use the da** 12 gauge and see how ya run then !!! da** tree rats. . . .

this comes from a man that can clean a woods of squirrel in a few hours by himself with that ruger 10/22

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Slow here in Pa.

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I just got off the phone with my buddy and he didn't see a tail but did happen to see two Red foxes within about an hour of one another. He didn't get his trapping license this year. ;)

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Dis is where its at From the trad gang ;

John "son of Glenn" Pardue's "Tree Rat Specials"





Hey Boys, Lance got to talking about the cost of carbon woods and the cavalier way I fling arrows at tree rats. Usually cull p.o.c.s. Now my p.o.c.s. are lite and uh hit high. So I went and redid some arrows I made a couple of years back. Now these arrows are cheaper than Van/TX and tougher than a raw hide milkshake. How cheap? 71 cents. With salvaged fletches. Whole arrow. Shaft .48, nock .20, head .03. Check my ciphering if you like. I ain't gone to school for a while now. Broke one today shootin my 1/2" steel pistol target. They weight around 630-800 grains. So you don't shoot over many squirrels.
Get the hardware store to order you a 100 3/8" dowels. Get a box of 7/16 nuts too. Sort the dowels by weight. Roll them on the table while you mark um at 8-12 inches.
Roll and plane at the line, and then plane again at 20" or mid shaft. Think making an octagon, and then make it round again. Lance timed me at 40-42 seconds a shaft. If you are taking more than 2 minutes, you are straining toooo hard. Just bust them down and move on.




Lance gets all fancy and sands his, then spines them to boot. (see pic of me sandin one of Lance's to see our fancy schmancy sanding jig) Me, I'm shooting rocks, trucks, and hornets nest, so I don't get all Prom-nitey with them. Lets all take a sip of sweet tea and move on. Arrer ain't gonna last long nuff with what I'm shootin at to matter.


Fletch them up, screw the nut on the end, and shoot it. If it kicks, plane a little off the love handles till it shoots straight. I burnish, straighten them, they fly straight. Remember to use salvage feathers to keep cost down, got to get a Morrison or a shrew one day you know.

You can use a fletching jig if you want'ta. I don't dance any more but I will ride a plastic barrel. But that's best discussed at a different camp fire.




After I fletched up a couple for Lance. He went and stuck Grizzly/Grandes on some. And shoot for groups with his carbon woods. (Now y'all don't pick on the lil coony cuz he hadda stand in a chair to be tall nuff ta shoot out the shop window!)


Here is proof the carbons are faster. Hits a quarter of an inch higher at 25 yards than my couthless-arrows. Yellow feathers penetrate a quarter of an inch deeper then white feathers. So keep this in mind as well. If you hit a rock or an engine block and knock the nut crooked.......just shoot a chunk of pine board. It will bust the board, but the nut will straighten right up.

Bone-apperr-teat!!

John "son of Glenn" Pardue


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In all seriousness folks you can spend a short bit of time and get a fine shootin twig this way. You can adjust your own weight and own spine accordingly to get them shooting right for you. The planning takes from 75-100grs off the shaft as well as around 20#s in spine as a rule of thumb. Fine tuning with the sanding taper can adjust your spine by a couple pounds at a whack.
It ain't rocket science and it ain't difficult at all. John has a way of inducing simplicity into it and making it stupid simple to get scary close spines and ugly heavy arrows.
Like John said don't dawdle.. move on. You spend too much time knit pickin and you'll over analyze it . Like John said bust'em down and move on.
Oh yea. The big nut screwed on the end works a trick too. Johns not kiddin. Get one crooked?? Just shoot a tree or a board with her from about 30yds and it'll straiten the nut right up! And these combo are tough. I mean you can literally bounce a metal water pail 'round the yard with em and cave in the sides of it like it was a beer can.
Hunt Hard,

Lance

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got 18 squirrels already this year. and still goin lol

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i went out on the 15th deer huntin'

got to the tree in time. . . . started climbing and about 10ft up the tree lost weight (lost diameter) and my foot pad was nose diving. . . .

after i got the footpad fixed, the sun was already up and any animal withing 50 yds was scared outta its mind. . . . i sat until 11 am before i saw the first deer.. . . a nice, young doe (probably 2yrs old)

she came in 'bout 40 yds. . . then 30yds. . . . and i was waiting 'til she moved behind some brush before i could draw. . . then as she was going behind the brush, she jumped out and whirled around. . . this is where i get all hot and bothered thinking there may be a buck behind her.. . .

instead, out jumps a spotted fawn ! ! AAAAAHHHHHH !!!

in the end, she presented me with shots 3 times. . . but i knew that if i shot her, then all the women on my side and the wife's side would rag on me for killin' bambi's mother. . . . .

so i watched bambi suck some milk and let 'em both go. . . .

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i fixed my squirrel hunting problems from my previous squirrel posting:

in the last two weeks, i've killed 5 squirrels (3 last night within 10 minutes) with the trusty 'ole Ted Williams 20 ga that my dad gave me after i passed the hunter safety course (16yrs old).

nothing like a Federal 20 gauge loaded with #6 shot meetin' a squirrel at 10 feet from the barrel. . . .