Quote from: Blowpipe Sam on November 24, 2022, 02:21:49 PMQuote from: customcutter on November 24, 2022, 11:04:43 AMGood luck Carter! We used to camp at Camp Blanding, my cousin would erect a "cabin" and stay the entire hunting season and have to take it down at the end of the season. I don't remember the name of the river it was on, but think it was the Sopchoppy? We would bring citrus and vegetables from home and the locals would bring us fish and oysters. Good times! I seem to remember a Captain Carter from back then, but he was in his 70's or older 40 years ago. The In-Laws have a lot of fox squirrels in Alabama, they have a lot of blonde coloration. They like to watch them and feed them sunflower seeds and peanuts. They had one that was tame enough to take peanuts out of your hand. Needless to say, they are off limits. I think the one I saw years ago was probably an albino, as it was solid white. Good luck on Moby Squirrel!I have hunted Blanding for deer and hogs. I live further west in the panhandle now. Quite a bit of my family still around Greencove Springs and Keystone Heights. You might have met one of my antecedents!
Quote from: customcutter on November 24, 2022, 11:04:43 AMGood luck Carter! We used to camp at Camp Blanding, my cousin would erect a "cabin" and stay the entire hunting season and have to take it down at the end of the season. I don't remember the name of the river it was on, but think it was the Sopchoppy? We would bring citrus and vegetables from home and the locals would bring us fish and oysters. Good times! I seem to remember a Captain Carter from back then, but he was in his 70's or older 40 years ago. The In-Laws have a lot of fox squirrels in Alabama, they have a lot of blonde coloration. They like to watch them and feed them sunflower seeds and peanuts. They had one that was tame enough to take peanuts out of your hand. Needless to say, they are off limits. I think the one I saw years ago was probably an albino, as it was solid white. Good luck on Moby Squirrel!
Good luck Carter!
Quote from: customcutter on November 24, 2022, 02:52:32 PMQuote from: Blowpipe Sam on November 24, 2022, 02:21:49 PMQuote from: customcutter on November 24, 2022, 11:04:43 AMGood luck Carter! We used to camp at Camp Blanding, my cousin would erect a "cabin" and stay the entire hunting season and have to take it down at the end of the season. I don't remember the name of the river it was on, but think it was the Sopchoppy? We would bring citrus and vegetables from home and the locals would bring us fish and oysters. Good times! I seem to remember a Captain Carter from back then, but he was in his 70's or older 40 years ago. The In-Laws have a lot of fox squirrels in Alabama, they have a lot of blonde coloration. They like to watch them and feed them sunflower seeds and peanuts. They had one that was tame enough to take peanuts out of your hand. Needless to say, they are off limits. I think the one I saw years ago was probably an albino, as it was solid white. Good luck on Moby Squirrel!I have hunted Blanding for deer and hogs. I live further west in the panhandle now. Quite a bit of my family still around Greencove Springs and Keystone Heights. You might have met one of my antecedents! It's possible. I remember he drove an older van and carried a .45 1911. One day somebody in the group had killed a small hog and skinned it. Then they draped it over a downed log about 30-40 yds off the road coming into camp. We heard him empty his pistol at the hog, and a few minutes later he drove into camp. He was HOT! He told us how some sorry low life had skinned and draped a hog over a log. Nobody cracked a smile, and I don't think anyone ever owned up to doing it.
It's possible. I remember he drove an older van and carried a .45 1911. One day somebody in the group had killed a small hog and skinned it. Then they draped it over a downed log about 30-40 yds off the road coming into camp. We heard him empty his pistol at the hog, and a few minutes later he drove into camp. He was HOT! He told us how some sorry low life had skinned and draped a hog over a log. Nobody cracked a smile, and I don't think anyone ever owned up to doing it.
"Moby Squirrel" Captain (Ahab) Carter
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad!” “Aye, and I’ll chase him round the trees and round the rocks and round the Sopchoppy maelstrom, and round perditions flame before I give him up!” I returned to the thickets on the west side of the river today. I carried my favorite Crosman 1400. O’l Stumpy is my thick brush hunting gun. So of course I saw no squirrels at short range today. I did see plenty of fresh shotgun hulls on the ground. Evidence that the squirrels on this side of the creek are just as “educated” as the ones on the other side.No white squirrel today but a lot of hard slogging and a couple of new tick bites.