How many squirrels in a nest?
 

How many squirrels have you seen from one nest or one hollow tree? Twice I've limited (6 squirrel) out of the same tree. I wondered if anyone else has seen this many in one hollow tree before or one nest? I'm ready for September to be here!
-Jake

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.


:D Al

I used a little 410 double Squirrel hunting. I was following a Squirrel down a limb holding off for a clear shot and fired just as it entered a nest.

A Possum came flying out of the back of the nest. It actually hit my buddies thigh and left a blood streak all the way down his legs.

I never did see that Squirrel again. I always wondered whether they were sharing that nest or it was an accident?

That was actually the first and last time I ever ate Possum. Squirrel is good, Possum not so much.

I once shot eight squirrels out of one tree with a .32 caliber flintlock muzzleloader. Immediately after doing so I managed to cut my index finger clean to the bone trying to cut a stick to carry all the squirrels on, and not having anything to use as a tourniquet I cut my underware off and wrapped my finger with them. I then had to walk about two miles back to my truck tottin' eight squirrels and a heavy ass muzzleloader, bleeding like a stuck pig the whole time. True story I swear, and a day in the woods I will never forget. But I did come away with a valuable lesson, always wear clean underware. :)

I'v found that some of my best memories involve an injury of some sort! Sounds like a memorable hunt.
-Jake

Geez, that is some story. Once, while walking through a hedgerow at night, I got a "pricker" stuck in my eyelid and had to walk all the way back to my truck while carrying the entire branch with me. All while trekking through 12" of snow and lugging my coyote gear. Boy, was I miserable!

Cutting yourself with a knife while hunting is a danger, i've done it also. In my Alaska DIY Moose hunting book, it mentions that cutting yourself while field dressing is a larger serious danger among hunters then Grizzly bear attacks in AK. Anyway, it wasn't a tree but my neighbor got 15 flying squirrels out of his house this spring, the poor guy.

Ouch! Now that would suck.