34 Drop's another

[shadow]

Pull into the drive and scanning the tree's as usual when I spot him moving from limb to limb. I kill the motor and coast to a stop, door already open I slip out and briskly move around to my side door. Inside I grab the Gene's tuned 34 , load a Predator and back out to locate him. He has already made it to the wallnut tree in the corner of my yard and is working on one so I drop to one knee and place the open sight's on the side of his mug. I know every distance in my yard from this shooting location and at twenty five yard's he's mine hehe so I relaxed and squeezed the trigger. He didn't even jerk when the Predator hit him just behind the eye, just dropped from the limb and landed dead. Pic for our fellow hunter's, cleaned and in the icebox. The 34 from Gene and tuned by my buddy is fantastic, just point, aim and shoot. Ed

[leftcoast1]

Very nice Ed. Once again another great account of your hunt.

[longislandhunter]

Picture says it all  :)

Good shootin buddy.  

Jeff

[shadow]

Thank's guy's, the 34 is a real pleasure to shoot and a fine hunter to boot. Ed

[Big_Bill]

Great Shootin buddy,

One one knee, and right in the temple !! Now that's shootin with iron sights !!!

Great photo, your trophy and baby !

[Froghunter]

Ed,

I see this type of squirrel in Missouri and have harvested acouple of them with the 20 guage shotgun. My question is what kind of squirrels are they. I have seen gray and fox squirrels on the Eastern coast and the red squirrel though searches on the net, but have not pinned this kind of squirrel though my search. Please help with ID and info.


Thanks!

[shadow]

William this is the South Dakota Fox Squirrel, We have three species of squirrel here. The Gray's which live up in the Black Hill's and Red squirrel's that are really small and live in the eastern half of the state. The Fox Squirrel is pretty much everywhere. The Fox Squirrel has the rounded ear's and the belly is bright orange or tan. Ed

[shadow]

Thank's Bill and that's about all I had time to do, I was getting this vibe that he was getting ready to move it out. His tail was twitching like crazy when he spotted me hehe. Ed

[Froghunter]

Ed,

I kind of feel foolish for asking. I have been in North Carolina and Georgia and the Fox Squirrels there are a variety of blacks, grays, and browns. I quess if you are not learning you are not  living. I was deer hunting in Georgia one afternoon, it was about dark and one of these monkey squirrels saw me. "Man", "He about scared me out of my skin" He started a hooping just like one of them monkeys you see on National Geographic show, Not barking like a gray squirrel, whooping and howling. Boy, It was going throught my mind that this thing had friends and they were going to attack and I was going to be in the headlines of the next days paper. I had to react before I was toast. I barked him with the 50 cal muzzleloader and I was safe. It was the biggest squirrel I have ever seen or harvested. I know he was five pound, ( I'm sticking to that weight), all black with white on his face and feet. After that I was tolded that folks come to that region to hunt them for stuffing and deplays. I ate the one I got and it was good! Ed thanks for the info. I have included photos of these beastie's of the tall longneedle pines of the South.

[Skip]

Good shot. With open sites too.You make it look easy.
Skip

[longislandhunter]

Hey Froghunter,,,,,,, During the summer the wife and I vacationed down in Myrtle Beach S.C.,,,, one day we went to this county park, used to be an old rice plantation, and I saw those exact same squirrels, they were running all over.  The thing about them that amazed me, besides their coloring, was the gigantic size of them compared to the eastern grey squirrels I hunt at home.  

I believe your 5 pound statement cause the ones I saw were huge !!!  I sure wish there were some of them running around the woods near my house  :)

Jeff

[shadow]

William, those squirrel's are cool, bandit mask and there are no foolish here friend. Ed

[shadow]

Thank's Frank, practice, practice and I talk to my gal's alot hehe. Ed

[Silo]

Sweet head shot Ed!
Nice gun too. I thought you had shot all the squirrels... where did this one come from? ;-)

[shadow]

Hehe Roald, lot's of  em out here with all this farmland. My wallnut tree has turned into the local eat and go. Thank's, Ed