Squirrels are the reason I carry a slingshot while deer hunting.

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nny243, i feel your pain. i hunted for over three hours on a foodplot this year. tree rats every where. i hear a squirrel jump on a pine tree to my right . i could see it out of the corner of my eye and turned to see what i waiting for . a good buck just on the other side of the tree, the d*** tree rat jumped to the ground right in front of him and man he hauled the way he had come from. i was steamed. but thats hunting.

There is but one way to stop the squirrels from messing with you hunting, it is called exorcism!!!! It is done during squirrel season with shotgun or rifle. I have found if you deer hunt an area that no one squirrel hunts the squirrel have no fear of humans. Now if you sprinkle holy water on your ammo and use that squirrel hunting, the sqirrel that survive will have the fear of God put in them during deer season and will leave you alone! Exorcism complete.

The Tazman

Exorcisms there Taz? Sounds like one of cardeer's spells. Maybe he can design a squirrel repellant charm to go on the necklaces, but I'd be afraid of what that might turn out to be. My biggest nuisance is the Coryell County two pointers that live full time on the land I hunt. These bovine buddies can move in and hang around all morning. If I run them off, they'll circle back around and set up grazing again. They've ruined many a hunt for me, but they live there and I'm just visiting so we try to get along. Sometimes I'll put out some hay or cake to keep them occupied.

I might be in the minority here, but as long as you sit still, even after getting busted, they tend to go away. No bothers. I hunt a three acre field of alfalfa dead smack in the middle of 500 acres of timber, and I have witnessed several dozens of deer at one time while squirrels where chattering and barking in the timber. This goes on enough in the wild that I don't think deer pay significant attention to this. They may to a short degree, but not much. I have seen more reaction from deer when bluejays or turkeys get to making noise more than I have squirrels.

Richie all joking aside you are right, I have had squirrel bust me a few times and deer could care less, and as you say they eventually do get tired of barking at you and leave. Also as you said they bark so often at other things that deer tend to ignore them.

The Tazman

While we are telling squirrel stories I just have to pass along what happened to me this year.

I was sitting in my tree stand, just as the sun was coming up. It was just about shooting light. I heard incredible rushing sound coming from behind. Just as I started to turn, I saw what seemed to be a huge white “some thing” right next to me. I about jumped out of my skin. It took a couple of seconds, and seeing it smack onto the trunk of a nearby tree, for me to realize that a flying squirrel had just glided inches from the side of my head. I’m pretty sure that if you looked close, you can see indentations that my fingers left in the solid steel of my tree stand. I like to think of it a sign of my incredible stealth, and prowess as hunter(that it didn't know I was there). But, the reality is; it’s just another case of the ever evil squirrel having a good laugh at my expense. This time they just called in air support.

Those damn pine squirrels elk hunting - if you can fool them, you can fool and elk

Yes those tiny red squirrels are a pain. They are so aggressive they chase the grey squirrels away. Up north, at my grandparents, we shot 70 of em over a two year period, then the greys finnally came back. Now we just shoot a few a year so we can regularly see a few of both types of squirrels. Just no Fox squirrels up that far.