I am ready for squirrel season!
#11
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Minneola, Central Florida, USA
Posts: 246
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
ORIGINAL: Aught Six
Hey, I was camping at Sky Meadows SP two weekends ago and decided to scout Thompson (northern most gate to the Davenport Tract). I saw a few squirrels, raccoons, and does, but not much. I haven't been hunting there yet, but I was considering it if Phelps doesn't work out too well.
I don't want you to give away your "secrets" (), but where's a good place to start looking for squirrels?
My friend and I tooled down there on Saturday to see the range, but the gate was closed. I know it doesn't open until Sept 1, but I figured the road might be open. I had never been to Phelps, I usually go to G. R. Thompson (top side for squirrels) but wanted a place I could sight in the black powder rifles.
I don't want you to give away your "secrets" (), but where's a good place to start looking for squirrels?
Chubber
#12
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
Thanks, Chubber. Phelps was a bust. I saw one squirrel, and he scampered out of sight before I could move in on him. I also ran into a few other hunters, and no one seemed to find any. I don't know what's up, but the mast crop was excellent. I arrived right at sunrise, so the pressure couldn't have been that high. Where are all the critters?! [:@][:'(][&:]
#13
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Stafford VA USA
Posts: 67
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
Thanks, Chubber. Phelps was a bust. I saw one squirrel, and he scampered out of sight before I could move in on him. I also ran into a few other hunters, and no one seemed to find any. I don't know what's up, but the mast crop was excellent. I arrived right at sunrise, so the pressure couldn't have been that high. Where are all the critters?!
Thanks, Chubber. Phelps was a bust. I saw one squirrel, and he scampered out of sight before I could move in on him. I also ran into a few other hunters, and no one seemed to find any. I don't know what's up, but the mast crop was excellent. I arrived right at sunrise, so the pressure couldn't have been that high. Where are all the critters?!
#15
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 193
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
Anyone wants some serious squirrel hunting and they live in Arkansas----The Ouchita Mts where I live have tons of them!!!! This has been an amazing year for acorns here and the little buggers are everywhere. I look out the back or front window and there's a couple in all directions. Lots and lots of nut trees in the area and the squirrels are fat and sassy. I'm gearing up for bow hunting deer right now and chompping at the bits to get up in that tree!!!! Have a great deason all!!!!
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NYC NY USA
Posts: 498
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
I visited Phelps several times about five ears ago. The squirrel there were spooked like crazy. I was walking along a trail when I saw one crossing the trail far in the distance. The little guy ran up a tree that was fairly isolated. Once he figured out there would be no jumping from tree to tree, and that I was closing in fast, that little thing just jumped to the ground and ran! It had to be about a 40 or 50 foot jump! He landed in the leaves and took off.
Never met anyone who limited out at Phelps. Pretty place, but everything is superspooked there. The most I have taken at a time there was about four or five - and I had to work real hard for them.
On my place the squirrel are so thick and tame you could limit out in an hour, cleaning each squirrel as you go along. So I really don't like hunting it. But at Phelps you hardly see anything - unless you are deer hunting .
Never met anyone who limited out at Phelps. Pretty place, but everything is superspooked there. The most I have taken at a time there was about four or five - and I had to work real hard for them.
On my place the squirrel are so thick and tame you could limit out in an hour, cleaning each squirrel as you go along. So I really don't like hunting it. But at Phelps you hardly see anything - unless you are deer hunting .
#17
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Minneola, Central Florida, USA
Posts: 246
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
But at Phelps you hardly see anything - unless you are deer hunting .
It's like they can smell you carrying a .22 and stay away.
Of course, some folks hunt squirrels during deer season. Last year a guy tried to blast one in the tree next to me with his 12 gauge while I was in my tree stand. Scared me 1/2 to death. I saw him walking up and figured he would just keep moving. Next thing I know he is shouldering his gun in my general direction. He didn't even know I was there. I didn't know my camo and blaze orange was that invisible. I wear a full orange vest and hat. So much for keeping a low profile if jokers like that can crash around all day in the opening week blasting away at any twitch in the leaves. He never did pick up a squirrel either. When I yelled at him he just shrugged and wandered off.
Chubber
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NYC NY USA
Posts: 498
RE: I am ready for squirrel season!
ORIGINAL: Chubber
Of course, some folks hunt squirrels during deer season. Last year a guy tried to blast one in the tree next to me with his 12 gauge while I was in my tree stand.
Of course, some folks hunt squirrels during deer season. Last year a guy tried to blast one in the tree next to me with his 12 gauge while I was in my tree stand.
Another time I had set up at Phelps thinking I would surely score, when someone fairly near me started shooting pretty regularly, as if at a range. The shooting went on throughout the day. I haven't been back to Phelps since. It is a pretty place, though.