Opening Day Bag Limit
 

Today's the first day of Squirrel Season in VA. Thought I'd share a few pics. VA's limit is 6 per day. Ishot 6 with 6 head shots by 9:30.Pretty good day. Oddly enough, none of them were cuttin' hickory nuts. Most were in white oaks and two were in dogwoods. (A late frost killed a lot of our hickory nuts this year)

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Sweet nice shooting.

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Congrats, nice shots btw!

I really like that first pic. Most of the time you get a blurry one of them laying in a front yard. Kudos to you for making an outstanding photo.

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Thanks! My Dad always told me "Don't ever bring me a squirrel back that wasn't head shot." Back then it was just annoying. Now I realize that he was teaching me patience, shot placement and sharpening my eye. Turns out parents aren't as dumb as we think.

Thanks also for the Kudos. I'm a portrait photographer hoping to transition to wildlife at some point in my life.But for now I'm just stuck doing boring people.

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what kind of rifle is that?
love that pic. i wish my camera would do that. ill pm you sometime for help with my camera.

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Its a Marlin 39AS Gold. I have two of them, although my other one was my dad's and is many years older than mine so its just the "39A"

Sure glad to help.

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Nice shooting.

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nice shooting, and a good looking gun

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Nice pics, but squirrel hunting already in VA? Didn't they have ticks, fleas, or warbles? I've never shot one here before a good cold frost that didn't have something :(

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Not normally, I killed those six on Saturday and none of them had anything. This morning I killed 6 more and only one of them had a warble. Didn't affect the meat though.

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