In the August issue of FFG there is a story written by Jeffrey Miller titled "Squirrel Opener - An old family tradition." What a great story. He has a way with words that makes it seem as if you're on the hunt with them. I'm closing in on 60 years of age and squirrels have been a passion for as long as I can remember. There's nothing quite as relaxing as sitting in the woods on a beautiful Fall day listening to feeding squirrels and watching for a flicker of movement in the tree tops. Just a couple more months.....

Like deer hunting with more action

I share that same passion, nothing excites me more than squirrel hunting. I don't subscribe to FFG, can I read this on line or do I need to look at the news stand for a magazine. I'd love to read it...

I enjoyed reading that article.

Still my number one critter to hunt and just poke around in the woods. October in Wisconsin, a good .22 and a day to ramble is hard to beat.

Zim

good article

I missed last year's opener, was the first time since I was 12...
Bet your keister it wont happen this year.
Did not read that article, but squirrel opener was always sacred for me. I will look it up

I don't believe you can read it on line. Pick up the magazine, you'll enjoy it.
Here's the web site www.furfishgame.com

I luv to squirrel hunt, squirrel dumplings are my favorite

I can remember riding my bicycle to the woods before daylight on school days, to sneak in some hunting before heading to school. There was a group of about five of us that always reported our morning and afternoon kills to one another. I rode a bike with my single barrel shotgun for about a mile or two. My family ate every squirrel I killed. Once in a while I jumped a rabbit or a covey of quail. Fond memories. All by myself. Character building I think.

I have been time or twenty. But never got bit like hunting turkeys or deer. I do remember having some fun days getting my limit. Do most die-hard squirrel hunters hunt with rifle or shotgun?

I started with a shotgun cause that's how it was. Then as I got older I switched to a .22 and never looked back. I honestly love trapping and hunting deer, But squirrel hunting does it for me. Man I love being there, feeder trees.....

Thanks K-zoo, I will do that

Asking if died hard squirrel hunters use a rifle or a shotgun? Could lead to the biggest fight you've never seen...lol

Killed a metric ton of squirrels with both. I'm a rifleman myself, but the first few I knocked out was with a shotgun, and a few occasional rabbit hunts turned squirrely.

But I'm a rifleman

Shooting a grey squirrel in the head with a .22 makes shooting a longbeard in the head with anything seem easy. Target is slightly less wary, but not on crack. That's the difference between squirrels and turkeys.

Jeff Miller is a good friend of mine, he's got some other stories he's working on too that should be very good as well. He's a coon eater, matter of fact I think he'd eat about anything...

I'll let him know you enjoyed the article, he'll like to hear that.

So...what is the best part of the squirrel to eat?

Brains, hands down, ain't ate them since I was told about "mad cow" disease. So afterwords i became a head shooter.

The lower back is a gem on a squirrel, and a diamond on a chicken you do the math

Correct answer, is all of it. Squirrel an dumplins, the way to go.

Our season opens on the first going to get my stuff ready this weekend. My mom is who got me started on squirrel she shot an old jc higgens 12 ga which I still have. When 22's got so hard to find I switched over to a 17hmr really like that little round.
J

our family use to get together an have a squirrel hunt every year when I was young was a great time