Squirrel's Nuts?
12-04-2012, 01:57 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: PA
Posts: 470
Who knows, I shoot them every chance I get, so my data is bound to be flawed. They make great gumbo, Brunswick stew, or chicken salad. I would guess it makes no difference, they've been living together in the woods long before the white man stepped foot on these shores, both are survivors.
12-04-2012, 02:12 PM
#3
Giant Nontypical
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
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Who knows, I shoot them every chance I get, so my data is bound to be flawed. They make great gumbo, Brunswick stew, or chicken salad. I would guess it makes no difference, they've been living together in the woods long before the white man stepped foot on these shores, both are survivors.
What do you use? .22 rifle? pistol? pellet gun?
12-04-2012, 02:19 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Great Mills, MD
Posts: 204
With all the acorns on the ground, trust me there is plenty of acorns for all the creatures in the woods. My worry isn't about the squirrels taking away the acorns from the deer. My worry is busting my ass trying to get to my stand!
12-04-2012, 03:04 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 213
lmao
Funny question.
My impression is the squirrels help the deer by hiding acorns. The deer, having better olfactory equipment and probably better instincts, find these acorns and 'steal them' from these aboreal creatures.
So in response, I think the squirrels lose acorns to deer rather than the other way around.
My impression is the squirrels help the deer by hiding acorns. The deer, having better olfactory equipment and probably better instincts, find these acorns and 'steal them' from these aboreal creatures.
So in response, I think the squirrels lose acorns to deer rather than the other way around.
12-05-2012, 04:48 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: PA
Posts: 470
Later in the season, I'll bring slugs & some #4s with me (smoothbore shotgun), if the deer hunting is slow, I'll change loads & blast a couple squirrels. I've shot squirrels before with a scoped .22, but most of the time I hunt in a suburban setting, I don't feel too good about sending a .22 hollowpoint through the treetops.
I never shot an arrow at a squirrel yet, I'm sure it would be fun, but arrows & broadheads are just too @#$%^&* expensive.
12-05-2012, 04:58 AM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Promise land ,KY
Posts: 189
I think it depends... If I am in the deer stand then every squirel in the woods is fighting over acorns right below my stand... If I'm at the house they are sitting outside the window bugging my cat... worthless little rodents!
