RE: what is your squirel hunting method?
 

Spot n' Stalk

RE: what is your squirel hunting method?
 

Best way to see squirrels: go deer hunting.

I saw a dozen squirrels in my first 2 days of hunting and all but 3 were within range. 1 even sqwacked at me from 10 feet away for a solid 5 min.

RE: what is your squirel hunting method?
 

hunt with a well trained dog. i thought squirrel hunting was easy till i went with my friend and his dog. it treed nearly every 5 minutes. it was really fun and alot easier than any other method.

if no dog, then just sit where you know there are squirrels and wait. if you want to still hunt, i advise walking briskly and jumping them like rabbits. take a shotgun because running squirrels are hard with a .22. walking slow and quiet works better when the leaves are still on the trees and there arent 100000000 leaves to crunch your feet on.

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well if they are tree squirrels then look for trees that produce nuts b/c those are the trees the squirrels like best.Also a tactic that i use is listening for their barking noices then i use spot and staulk. If they are ground squirrels then just find a hole and wait for a dump one to stick its head out.hahahah

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We have a corn pile in our woods. Park our butts about 50 yards away and wait for movement... When we get bored we walk slow through the woods waiting for movement. I also keep tabs on the stands that they drove me crazy during deer season and sit in those stands and pick them off.

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Early in the season I find the hicory trees with fresh cut nut shells under them and will go and sit under them early in the morning and wait for them to come and get there breakfast. You can tell when there coming because the tree tops full of leaves start bounceing around.
This time of year I will go and sit either at the bottom of a rivine or at the top watching the bottom. Alot of the acorns and hicory nuts are abundant their either from being washed there from the stream or being funneled into the bottom from the hill sides going into the rivines.

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I hunt them just like deer. They are always around my deer stands making an incredible amount of noise when I'm deer hunting so I just sit out near my stands just before light and wait. Once the sun comes up they just come out everywhere and there is always a shot.

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I usually walk into the woods and pick a an area of nut trees that looks good (look for fresh cuttings from nuts they have eaten) and sit and wait for awhile. If no activity, I walk 20-30 yards and sit again. I try to get them w/o them ever seeing me, BUT if I tree one that knows I'm there I have a little trick my grandfather taught me years ago.

I bring some string, about 20-30 feet. I tie it to a bush on the back side of the tree and then walk to the front. Then I'll sit still for about 2-3 min, then start tugging the string. The movement in the bush will drive him back around to the side of the tree I'm on.


Couple of other tricks I learned frommy grandfather that he carried over from when he had to hunt for food (don't kill things, don't eat) many years ago that I don't do anymore, and really might not be legal. When one gets in a den tree, he showed me two things that work. Either build a little fire w/ wet stuff in a hole at the bottom and smoke him out, OR take a green brier and start feeing it into the hole, twisting it. As you twist the brier, you'll catch him somtimes, then you pull him out and smack him on the tree before you get bit.

RE: what is your squirel hunting method?
 

shooting the nest will almost always work

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sitting under the trees with my grandson best way to hunt them
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