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Ha! Something about those squirrels.....I ate em for years and shot most of them with a 32-20 1892..........then sometime in my 30-40's, a buddy was calling them "tree rats". I asked him why and he said they are a member of the rodent family. Dead stop right there...never ate another after that.
Yea, we all have it too easy today.....
Squirrel helper At a gunshow one time, I saw "roadkill helper".-----6
I quite like squirrel but not so keen on Lasagna........
Squirrel pie was, I believe, a favorite of Elizabeth the 1st.
In Tudor times they would have been Red Squirrels, now they are rare as the "over paid over sexed and over here" American Grey Squirrel has taken over...
GKjr is a full time grey squirrel trapper, protecting one of the few red squirrel strong holds left in England.
I've been a squirrel hunter for the last 56 years and must say the American import has given me a hell of a lot of fun....
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
gamekeeper wrote:I quite like squirrel but not so keen on Lasagna........
Squirrel pie was, I believe, a favorite of Elizabeth the 1st.
In Tudor times they would have been Red Squirrels, now they are rare as the "over paid over sexed and over here" American Grey Squirrel has taken over...
GKjr is a full time grey squirrel trapper, protecting one of the few red squirrel strong holds left in England.
I've been a squirrel hunter for the last 56 years and must say the American import has given me a hell of a lot of fun....
I'm assuming the American Grey was a stowaway, versus being purposely introduced... but then again, nothing surprises me anymore.
Y2K took out one at the beginning of his Christmas break. Used my .22 pellet rifle as he likes it better than his.
We used to have red and gray squirrels up in Michigan - and some black ones! They were smaller than the others.
Ysabel Kid wrote:
I'm assuming the American Grey was a stowaway, versus being purposely introduced... but then again, nothing surprises me anymore.
Y2K took out one at the beginning of his Christmas break. Used my .22 pellet rifle as he likes it better than his.
We used to have red and gray squirrels up in Michigan - and some black ones! They were smaller than the others.
Jay, the grey squirrel was introduced on purpose in Victorian times, that wouldn't be so bad but the greys carried squirrel pox which our native reds had no resistance. Hence open season on greys all year round and NO bag limits.
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
After a few times being shot at with the blow gun they start 'jumping the string'. That's when I go to the RWS.
Always carry some sort of blunt while bow hunting too, we can bait for deer here and the TRATS steal more corn than the deer eat.
Squill ain't bad eatin'.
They ain't like rats in habits too!
It's a bit unfair calling them tree rats, it puts me off them but I know they are good chow.
All of the small animals with continually growing teeth( mice, rabbits, beaver, squirrel etc) are members of the same rodent branch.
I raised a grey from a pink little blind helpless baby to adulthood. I take joy from watching them figure things out.
Somewhere on YouTube is a video of squirrel on a clay bird thrower, ZING- over the fence it goes.
They are fine table fare!
My Black & Chocolate labs give em a hard time every chance they get! So far they haven't caught one, but they are putting a hurt on the chipmunk population! Funny, if Winnie catches a chipmunk and it DOESNT bite her she won't hurt it, just walks around with it in her mouth- normally tail sticking out. I just open her mouth and it jumps out. BUT if it bites her then its crunched and I toss it on the shop roof, regular bone yard up there!
I'm with SIX, ate a bunch of Squirrel's in the past (thank GOD for BBQ sauce), loved hunting them, but I couldn't eat them at this point in my life--yuk... :(
Sixgun wrote:Ha! Something about those squirrels.....I ate em for years and shot most of them with a 32-20 1892..........then sometime in my 30-40's, a buddy was calling them "tree rats". I asked him why and he said they are a member of the rodent family. Dead stop right there...never ate another after that.
Yea, we all have it too easy today.....
Squirrel helper At a gunshow one time, I saw "roadkill helper".-----6
Rats and squirrels are both rodents. Rodentia is a scientific order broader than a family. Squirrels and rats are not of the same family. Calling them tree rats is as accurate as calling people ground lemurs.
I know it's a figure of speech based on appearance, but the two animals are really quite different.
Rabbits and hares aren't rodents. They do have continuously growing incisors and must gnaw but they have more than four teeth. They are in a different order along with pikas I believe.