Squirrel hunting

I have been squirrel hunting since I was a kid... it is loads of fun, and squirrels are super tasty... I have taken them with slingshots, blowguns, bows, pelletguns, various rimfire cartridges, and shotguns... mostly .22 LR rifles... hard to beat a good bolt action .22 rifle with a quality scope mounted... something with 12X or 16X on the top end, for hunting eyeballs out to 75 yards.
 
Egg/milk wash then dredged in ground crackers with chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder salt and pepper. Let them sit so the breading moistens or drip water drops on them a bit. Deep fry or pan fry in canola oil.....damn yummy little buggers!
 
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I go after them with an air gun, it usually doesn't take too long before I have a couple. Pan fried in oil with a little seasoning like the previous post.
 
Chicken.....:) They have a mild taste, usually the seasoning you use gives it the flavor, it can vary a bit depending on how you do it.
 
The meat is really only on the legs but I often do the ribcage too. Very much like chicken wings flavourwise. If these ever went mainstream I wouldn't have anymore chewed up soffits and fascia on my house!
 
Been fattening up the ones around my place. This guy is almost the size of a cat.

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Still alive said:
How many makes a meal for one adult?
Sounds like I better take squirrel hunting a bit more seriously!
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Flavor and texture wise, it's like eating slightly pork tasting chicken so it can be used in stir fry, fajitas, casseroles, meat pies, stew or roasted whole. When deep fried with a coating it's like eating juicy and tender chicken wings or debone the back legs to make nuggets for the kids. Cook to 160-165 degrees. It really is one of the best wild meats out there.


There's a bunch of meat on the back from the last rib to the tail so cut off the legs then cut through the spine behind the last rib to end up with 5 pieces.

Figure at least one squirrel per adult and usually 3 squirrels is good for 2 guys.
 
Between the challenge of sniping them off and the great tasting meat, it will get addicting. When I went out, I walked into a group of 8 that quickly scattered and they didnt come back out for a while. The red squirrels were really curious though. They kept coming within pissing distance from where I set up and just kept making a racket and blowing my cover. Im sure those little buggers were the reason why the greys were cautious to come back out. It took a bit of patience, but they slowly start to move. And as Hoyt elluded to, crossheirs on the eyeballs
 
1963beretta said:
Between the challenge of sniping them off and the great tasting meat, it will get addicting. When I went out, I walked into a group of 8 that quickly scattered and they didnt come back out for a while. The red squirrels were really curious though. They kept coming within pissing distance from where I set up and just kept making a racket and blowing my cover. Im sure those little buggers were the reason why the greys were cautious to come back out. It took a bit of patience, but they slowly start to move. And as Hoyt elluded to, crossheirs on the eyeballs
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Someone will call BS on this thread pretty quick. I guess we'd all like to see your squirrel kills/stew pot.

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Shot a lot of the with a pellet rifle and sent them off to the grave yard in the forest across the street. they know better than to hang around our house now they were very destructive.
 
I have also done some squirrel hunting around my in laws farm breaded a quick pan fry then baked is the best.
Even brought some to work and changed a couple people's minds on eating squirrel...
 
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