Got my first squirrels ever today.

[JR86]

Second time out squirrel hunting and I managed to nab two of the little guys with my CZ 453 Varmint .22

Very enjoyable hunting experience. Quiet stealth stalk. Can't wait to make a nice stew up with them.
Jeremy

 

[powdergun]

Is the black one a common colour phase ? Never see that colour around here.

Congrats

BTW. Is your scope on sideways ?

 

[JR86]

Scope is not sideways lol it's a target scope. Black is normal

 

[fugawi]

I was 'hunting' squirrels in my side yard yesterday. Squirrels '0', Trap '1'.

Dog was impressed. I am pleased.

 

[FishHog]

nothing better than squirrel dinner. But try for head shots, and you waste less meat and they are much more pleasant to clean.

 

[Canadian_Zuk]

X2 on the head shots! makes cleaning the little buggers a lot less messy too! Dust em up with some home brew shake n' bake and toss em in the skillet

 

[GeoShooter]

No black squirrels in CB

 

[Regulator54]

Hey, come around my place, there are dozens of the little critters making a mess of my yard at any given time. The large oak trees out on the city boulevard attract them like flies!

 

[Canadian_Zuk]

Is the black one a common colour phase ? Never see that colour around here.

Congrats

BTW. Is your scope on sideways ?

The black squirrel IS an Eastern grey squirrel. It's called melanism and they are very common in Southern Ontario.

 

[the spank]

Congratulations, you're in for a tasty treat!!

I haven't hunted squirrels since I was a teenager growing up in southern Ontario. Those little buggers are tasty but unlike Miss Kay I don't believe that "squirrel brains is what makes you smart"!!

Mine went into the pot headless!!Hmmm? Come to think of it she is the millionaire with her own TV show now and I am still duking it out in the oil patch?? Maybe I should have thrown them in the pot brains and all?!!

 

[Call]

I'm ahead of you this season by about 20, but welcome to the club!

 

[deckerhead]

Their only good battered and deep fried!.......lets start a squirrel recipe thread ??

 

[int3grity]

Man, i can blow away gophers but squirrels?? That's cold man. not cool.

 

[waltman]

The tenderloins are the best!!

 

[hoytcanon]

Our area is mostly black phase squirrels, with about 20 percent grays... I have pretty much switched over entirely to .17 HM2 for my squirrel hunting... eyeballs at 75 yards!

 

[jlovie]

Good stuff!

 

[Cintax]

Is the black one a common colour phase ? Never see that colour around here.

It is very common to see the black coloured Grey Squirrel where I live. I'd say its about 50/50.

 

[dustycanuck]

The black squirrel IS an Eastern grey squirrel. It's called melanism and they are very common in Southern Ontario.

Yeah, I just read about this in "Death in the Long Grass" by Peter Hathaway Capstick. He mentions that the 'Black Panther' in Africa is a melanistic color variant of the leopard.

Wikipedia says that "Black panthers in the Americas are black jaguars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

I did not know this about squirrels.

Canadian Gun Nutz - learning about more than guns!

 

[caustic]

never saw a black one before.

just red and grey here.

 

[the spank]

Man, i can blow away gophers but squirrels?? That's cold man. not cool.

Are you kidding? Squirrel hunting is a tradition in southern Ontario and especially south of the border. And unlike gopher shooting they are consumed. They are fantastic eating!

Not cool?! NOT!!!!

I am going to assume you are in the west given the comment about shooting gophers? Seems to be the common term in use out here. If that is the case then what you are referring to as gophers are not gophers. They are squirrels. Richardson's Ground Squirrels to be exact.