Back in 2016 I started a Trophy Squirrel Contest. Mountain Man (Scott Jerard) won a fire-starter, and squirrel call for his harvest. 2018 I'd like to "Honor" the sporting and trophy quality of Tree Squirrels. Since there are 8 or 9 huntable species across the US. Post a photo of your traditional archery, legally harvested, tree squirrel from 09/01/2018 to 12/31/2018. All sucessful hunters names will be entered into a hat. Two names will be drawn and win a homemade: Squirrel Tote, Squirrel Skinning Aid, and Squirrel Cutter call. Hope you all have a Safe, Enjoyable, and Blessed Season!

I'll kick this off. Gear used: 62" Toelke Whip 42#, heritage 75 arrow, magnus stinger, black carbon steel skillet.

This was my very first sit on a new farm for deer and i arrowed this guy 20 minutes in. Had to climb down and get my lighted nock out of him. After dark as i just got back to ground level a coyote ran in for my supper, saw me and took off. No deer, but any hunt involving skirrels is a good hunt in my book.

Nice Chuck! Ill use my Squirrel call ; )

Last years winner

Those are some fine tree rats, and a nice Minuteman, too!

Chad

I'd rather hunt squirrels than deer ANY old day. All that surrounds their allure and demeanor is a perfect fit for me. But with all due respect, I won't put my name in your hat for some of the same reasons I won't enter buck pools. I hope your endeavor entices a few new folks to appreciate their pursuit though. It's so much fun. I'm counting the days.

Hiked back a little, spoted a grey squirrel waaay high. Very first shot from newly acquired ol Browning .22 auto, buckhorn sight. Dead. Got my arrow back, too. Mounted a Bushnell scope on it, never could shoot it accurately afterward. Dumb thing to do but the new owner loves it. And I love the Hoyt Gold Medalist I got in trade. Don't think the squirrel formed any opinions.

I take ALL of my vacation simultaneous in squirrel season, beginning with the first day.

A 50# Black Hunter longbow from China pushing a full length Gold Tip Traditional 400 spine arrow with 125 gr tip brought this ferocious mammal home on a rake.

Do you guys hunt squirrels with Marty McFly?

Rick

Biggest I've seen in my life was a corn fed fox squirrel in Guernsey Co Ohio and I missed it, on the ground, inside of 12 yards, with my selfbow Lioness, who LOVES the taste of squirrel... TWICE! In completely objective hindsight, I think I may have had a touch of 'buck fever'. I knew right away it was a rare specimen. It was SO fat, it moved like a turtle and acted like dragging itself up the hickory tree 2-3' away to avoid arrows was the last thing on earth it wanted to do. I could have taken another shot as it stopped to glare at me, but felt it had already gotten the best of me, so didn't bother reaching for another arrow. Fair is fair.

There are some cat squirrels in North Florida that are jet black and huge.

I remember as a kid squirrels were the ONLY game in town. Kids carried shotguns and 22's in their truck racks at highschool so they could get to the woods as soon as they were dismissed.

they have fed a lot of families over the years.

I never came close to outgrowing em. I outgrew shotguns in their pursuit, but not 22's, flintlocks, or stickbows.

Still my all time favorite hunting,,,and now days i only use a longbow Unfortunately i had to put down my squirrel dog new years day : ( She didnt retrieve them or tree them,but she ate everyone i got My other baby,,,put her down day before thanks giving,,,,,,she could careless bout tree rats

I thought we weren’t supposed to start until September!

MP

“Do you guys hunt squirrels with Marty McFly?”

ROFL, Rick!

OP’s fault for starting the thread 2 1/2 months ahead of time!

Just getting pumped up ; )

Where i am i can hunt them year round,,,as long as im on my property i can take any animal anytime as long as i dont post my property I know that sounds weird but its the law Red squirrels can be taken anywhere in state any time no limit as long as you have a small game licence

That said i can wait till September,,,but ill have alot in the bag by then ; )

I can't wait until squirrel season starts. Last year I educated a lot of them. Didn't get my black one last year. :^( I need a black one to compete my goal of all the squirrel species/color phase of PA.

Squirrel season may open early at my place...as in any day now.

I love watching the little acrobats while hunting, but I'm developing a deep seated hatred for the destructive little bastids around my house.

There will be blood!

That's a cool looking squirrel, I would have to get him mounted.

Oh that white tail would be hanging from my back quiver!

I've hunted them a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Jg9t66gXQ

Oh im going to be gettin in on this!

Big Bear, we have a squirrel in our local cemetery that has a white tip on its tail, about one third of tail is white like that one.

A couple of years back I got a bow from JD Berry. I could hardly wait for squirrel season. I killed a bunch the first week, it was nice weather. Then my wife started cooking them, very careful slow cooking, I thought they were great. On the fourth one of the week, she gagged on it and and declared with no uncertain terms no more squirrels. I had to eat the last four by myself. We really have some of the finest fat fox squirrel hunting any where. I have heard that it is impossible for anyone to eat quail everyday for a month, most people cannot get past a week. Maybe squirrel fits in that same category. We feed them in our yard, we have a family line of fox squirrels that are light gray, one even had a white patch on her rump. Three blocks down they are coal black.

I borrowed my Sister's Delorean,

and got this one at lunch time on Saturday - 09/01/2018

16 yards broadside, and about 10 ft up the tree.

They don't get real big around here. This one is a little bigger than mid size.






Them VPA SGT's knock a hole through them. A big hole.
I dislike squirrels. I dislike them a lot.
But, they are good to eat. 8^)

Rick
 

Clothes lined him! ; )

I can take or leave tree rat eating,,,mostly destructive clean up round here My German Shepard loved Squirrel meat,,,she would do anything for little broiled Saddly we had to put her down new years day this year,so my bestest Squirrel hunt'n partner of 14yrs aint here so even though i enjoy the hunting and shooting i dont shoot my limit anymore

But if'n theres a trophy,,,i mean Pope&Young Squirrel theres no stopping the depths ill goto to throw ceder at it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8OyexZ10E

Maybe we can share some squirrel recipes on this thread. I know we have a few we enjoy, but there's got to be cornbread too! Good Hunting!

I'll be looking forward to the challenge once it becomes legal in fall.

One of the best ways to honor any game animal is to eat it. I clean mine as quickly as possible. Efficient field dressing and good recipes go a long way to help encourage a bowhunter to shoot and enjoy small game. I would like to see how some experienced squirrel chefs prepare theirs.

3 or 4 squirrels pressure cooked. Take all the meat off the bone put in a slow cooker. Add 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup, 2 sticks of butter, potatoes, carrots, peas, celery, grean beans,one diced onion, or whatever veggies you want. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook on low while you are hunting all day. Serve over biscuits.

I really like my squirrel best either pan fried, or grilled whole. Either way I par boil them first for 8 to 10 minutes.

I do rabbits the same way.

Sometimes when grilling them I slather on a little BBQ while they are browning up.

Rick

[[[ BOX CALL said: "Seen five in my buckeye tree this morning just tearing the little buckeyes up.if ya ever heard that buckeyes was poinious,well send these bastards the message.like to give them a hard message up side the head,but I'm I'm in the city." ]]]

Dan, two words - bean shooter.

And, you can use the buckeyes for ammo (untraceable) for some poetic justice. 8^)

Rick

this is how i like my squirrels! of course gramma's apple pie too!

I started a campaign to tan the hide of one of each critter I bow kill.... started a little home tanning hobby.

This was my first victim from last year... and that is a 22 inch long quiver.

I documented the tanning process here:

http://traditionalknowhow.blogspot.com/2018/04/diy-taxidermy-tanning-squirrel-hide.html

I made squirrel cakes the other day! Yum!

Who needs crab?!

Here is my entry. Shot w 40# Toelke Pika on 10/3/18.

Smaller game shouldn't inherently equate to smaller levels of respect. One of the best ways to honor any game animal is to not take, show, or enjoy the gory versions of post-mortem photographs or accounts of them. Why do I need to see your arrow sticking out of a squirrel? I don't. Why NOT with the deer you killed? Why do you feel so differently about them... when they've each given you all they had to give?

When you show less respect... you earn less. The converse is true as well.

Very sorry to have upset you Jeff.

New Mexico Abert squirrels. Big and tasty, but not as good as eastern grays. Most of mine end up in gumbos.

Jeff, I don't have a photo of any game that I have taken in the last fifty years because I feel the same as you. I am not a trophy hunter, just hunt for the excitement and rewards, and most of all, I just get what I need at the time, I don't stock my freezer full, I usually hunt with two of my friends and we always divide what was taken that day. I guess I am weird.

B Arthur does it the way I do, slow cook, except I usually add dumplings to the pot instead of serving over buscuits, but basically it's the same.

I left them alone this year and they stripped my strawberry guava tree of all it's fruit before any of it ripened, I couldn't figure out why they would eat green fruit, they were eating the seeds, destructive little rascals, next year they aren't getting any. I had ten to twelve squirrels in that tree at one time every day, it took them two weeks to get everyone of the fruit off.

I think Jeff and I were just mentioning the close up of the wound and arrows sticking out of the animal, there were no accusations, just our opinions trying to clean up the photos that are shown here.

Nothing was mentioned about not showing the pictures of your prize.

I was just mentioning the way that I have always done it with respect for the game and not needing any photos for reference, heck I don't even have any photos of my old cars and motorcycles that I restored, don't need them, I live for the moment and don't have much of that left, we were just expressing our ideas on how to display the animal for presentation.

The photo's of the game is great to show the different types Iowacedarshooter has the best photo of squirrels...Ha!Ha!

Nice photo squirrelhunter, those are pretty enough to have as pets. Now that is the way to show your prize.

September 10th kill.

No harvest here... killed it and ate it. I'm personally not offended by anyone's photos. They are hard critters to hit and kill with the bow.

Now Greg has the idea. Yummy! Now that squirrels tail looks a little rough.

Ralph, I don't like to go negative to anyone, just suggestions as it would make this site more agreeable to a lot of folks. Thanks for understanding.

Nice shooting Greg. And i agree wholeheartedly--- I haven't ever been able to talk one into the pot. ;)

I had One Honor Me ! Never ever thought Id be on the cover of our rolling stone mag LoL !!!

Love that cover!

Where ya been JR?

I might have to send my copy down south for an autograph ; )

Photo gotta be photoshopped?

Very cool cover. How’d that happen?

Iam friends with Gary Logsdon who has done quite a few covers for archery Mags he took the pic and i have had the worst summer i have ever known hip problems alota pain probley no bow hunting this year for me and thats killen me more then the pain guys ! just had my 45th H S Reunion a classmate gave me potrait she done of me pretty good I think ! "Happy Hunting" Ya'll !!!

The gist of the thread was to post photos of squirrels taken w trad bows. Broadheads make big holes in squirrels so it stands to reason that there will be some blood involved. if you are sensitive, then i would have thought youd read the op and refrain from scrolling down. I respect the animals i hunt by hunting them w a longbow and making ethical quick kills. The animal, once departed feels nothing regarding how his photo came out. This ain't the Disney channel. And since we're into expressing opinions

As others have said, " if there's no picture, it didn't happen".

Shot this fox squirrel this afternoon while deer (and squirrel) hunting.

Nice shooting Dan!

“ I just hit them with a rock left handed cause daddy says I tear them up to bad right handed”.

Thank you John!

Never got into squirrels. Growing up the only squirrels we saw were eating corn out of the cow crap in our corrals. Just big ass ugly fox squirrels eating crap. Didnt make me want to try that.

Now theres a mental picture I can't get outta my head! Of course, if you have ever eaten Talapia, its probably the same thing :)

Talapia = pancarp

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