Post your squrrel pictures
 

I was reading about all the different squirrel related topics so i thought this was an good idea. Show everyone your best pictures of your successful squirrel hunts :)

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ok its in my signature. these were my first 2! i shot them both on the same day. they were about 4 hours apart. shot them with a Gamo Youth Hunter 640, 640 fps, 4X32 scope, match pellet, 7.5 grains.

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Well at least someone isn't shy lol :D

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Ive never thought of taking trophy photos of squirrels. Maybe ill give it a try next time i go out.

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That is true. I realize not too many people take pictures of squirrels kills but never hurt to try. The forums have been alittle slow lately, which isn't suprising due to the time of year.

New Crop of Ground Squirrels Out.
 

They were posing for the camera today, tomorrow they can pose for the 17 HMR. There is a wood pile next to a haystack. If I don't work on this area, they will foul up the hay bales. It is a tough job, but someone has to do it.


Three on top of the wood pile.


Up close and personal.


Side View.

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Varmint Al do you by any chance have a site called varmintal.com?:D

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zak123,

I sure do. I also have the mirror page http://www.varmintal.net
I was looking through my traffic for my page and found a lot of traffic coming from Hunting.net and followed the link. This forum looks good with lots of info so I decided to join up today.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

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It's a great site. I love yours too.

After a hard day at the office.................
 

firstshot

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Varmint Al!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm in the midst of a celebrity. I love your web site! :D:D:D

Welcome to Hunting Net. Hope to see you around!

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here some pix...

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nice pictures so far :)


good shooting bhw :)

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Wish I had that job. I to love your site, I hit it heavily before purchasing my Marlin 17vs. Keep up the good work. Your squirrels look difrent than ours down here in Oklahoma or am I seeing things?

BHW always has photos :D Are those black squirrels in one of your photos or just the lighting?

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when i get mine back from the taxidermist ill post a pic.....probabbly next year....it was a grey....but had alot of brown on it.....like the face and the whole belly was brown insted of the typical white....never seen one like that....and dad seen 10000s of them and never saw one like that.....so i took him to the tixidermist.....told him i want him on a branch sitting eating a nut.....i hope thats how he is......his face was also brown and grey....very neat looking......i think it was a cross between grey and fox.....but i dont know for sure........cant wait to get him back......next year i want a big black squirrel for the wall....i think they look so neat....only squirrel i havent bagged yet.....saw a few but they dissappeared before i got the gun up.....nice pics guys

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Very nice website Varmint Al

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here are some that came from inside the levee on the mississippi river last october.


greys,reds and blacks all with .22s.

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TreeDog,

They are California Ground squirrels. The scientific name for them is Spermophilus beecheyi. They dig holes in the ground where they live. I once saw them in an oak tree that had a big hole in it where a branch had broken off, but normally they don't climb trees. In really dry weather, they will strip the bark off of Buckeye trees to get moisture.

More pictures of ground squirrels here: http://www.varmintal.net/avarm.htm

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That explains it Al, thanks. I imagine they do a good bit of damage to the fields your way.

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Here are some squirrel hunting pics from northern Michigan. I use a Treeing Feist squirrel dog.

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treedog,

It's just the light... they are standard grays!

BHW

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wow, nice pics

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Gotta love a good treeing feist! Used to have one or two myself. Would love to have another. Great looking dog.

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This is a really fat CA ground squirrel that lives near my house next to Burger King. I'm working on a plan to cure it's obesity.

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I didn't know that squirels were cannibals. I shot this one with my pellet rifle and some other squirrels ate all the flesh off it's arm. I left it there to see it they would continue, and they did.....

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I didn't know that about being canibals either. I do recall a long time ago i saw another one eating or sniffing at an body of one of its buddy's but it was at a distance so it was hard to tell what it was actually doing.

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BHW, appears you take your squirrel hunting very seriously. Great pics!

Jumpshootin, never heard of a tree fiest dog, but is sure appears to do a job on the squirrels. What kind of breed is it?

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It's a Feist. He's a UKC registered Treeing Feist. They have been using these little dogs on squirrels in the deep south for many generations. Check out this link: www.sqdog.com or this one: http://www.ukcdogs.com/curfeist/index.shtml

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Jumpshootin,

Thanks for the follow up. I have never heard of a Feist. Learn a new thing everyday. Must be a fun way to hunt squirrels!

Tks,
MD Piney

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Never hunted the little guys, never knew how to fix em up!! Great pics fellas!

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MD Piney, feist are great little dogs at treein squirrels. Some will tree you possumsn and coons at nite if you hunt them at nite also. www.sqdog.com is THE site for squirrel dog related information.

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Got this one yesterday with the air rifle. Besides myself and Vamint Al, is there anyone else from California?

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I thought about getting skins form these little guys...some are pretty big. Maybe make a hat or something. I was always afraid they might have rabies or bubonic palague(according to the University of California Management of natural resources website, thanks to Varmint Al for the link). But I guess that's just the ones that die for no reason.

This squirrel took one in the face.

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I wish I could shoot these guys with a real gun. Even with a shot to the neck, or the face like the last one they take a few seconds to die.

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lol yeah, i am in the central california area :)

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Sorry to post the same pic twice but I gotta ask Red Hawk and Varmint Al.....Have you ever seen a squirrel this fat? I thought it might be pregnant....but it almost seems unatural. Have any of the tree squirrel hunters seen anything like this?

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lol its all good. Yeah actually i have seen one that fat before. An long time ago I shot one and i wasn't sure why it was so fat so i didn't an "autopsy" on it and it was pregnant. I felt kinda bad for shooting an mother-to-be though.

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I haven't seen the fatty in a while so I guess it may have had its litter. I will be moving to the "desert Paradise" 29 Palms CA tomorrow. Since I've never seen any Squirrels up there I probably won't be posting any pictures for a while. At least there will be coyotes and jack rabbbits.....