Nice one Mike!
Quote from: Spacebus on January 06, 2023, 05:52:26 PMThe red in the top photo looks a bit older, with a really nice pelt. I got a young female this morning, about a mile from my house as the crow flies. the first shot was a miss, but the red gave me another chance pretty quickly. She was about 50' up a big spruce tree quartering towards me on a branch. I was aiming a bit high thinking since the shot was so high up I would hit low. It was nice being able to see the tracks in fresh snow. Saw a lot of snowshoe hare tracks which got me pretty excited. Need to learn more about how to hunt them with a rifle.DJ, thank you for your comment. The squirrel in the first picture had lots of blood all over from the head shot, and jumping around like they sometimes do. It was so young, its testicles had not dropped yet. I moved it from where it died because it was on the shady side of a crevice, almost buried in the leaves. All three squirrels are Eastern Gray Squirrels. They are more abundant than the Fox Squirrels and much smaller too.
The red in the top photo looks a bit older, with a really nice pelt. I got a young female this morning, about a mile from my house as the crow flies. the first shot was a miss, but the red gave me another chance pretty quickly. She was about 50' up a big spruce tree quartering towards me on a branch. I was aiming a bit high thinking since the shot was so high up I would hit low. It was nice being able to see the tracks in fresh snow. Saw a lot of snowshoe hare tracks which got me pretty excited. Need to learn more about how to hunt them with a rifle.
A little hunting update: A week ago [Monday the 9th] was the last hunt I made. Deer season ended on the Sunday; so I was able to go out to the second permission. The woods were very quiet - no birds' noises, no wind, and no Gray Squirrels were sighted. I did see several [maybe four] Eastern Fox Squirrels playing on the ground and running around the trunk of a Hickory tree. It looked like they may have been doing the mating dance. However, they were not too busy to spot me at about 70 yards distance and scampered away. I walked about 40 of the 50 acres of woods and got home before dark. It was a good day to look over the second permission. Since then, the weather has not been cooperating. I told my Judy that I might hunt tomorrow afternoon after the rain stops. Wish me luck!