I’m running a little experiment on Digg to see if we can pick up some new members in the squirrel hunting forum. While you’re on the site, can you click this link and give shootingsquirrels.com a thumbs up on Digg?
http://digg.com/other_sports/ShootingSquirrels_com
If we all give it a thumbs up, then when new hunters come to read the site, including this post, they might wander over to the forums and give us some new blood….
Guess what we might have access to? Remember 2 years ago, when the winning team at the Unity Squirrel Shoot came in with 996 dead squirrels in 5 hours of shooting (They quit picking them up at 1pm, when they thought they had a thousand dead squirrels, and then just kept on shooting squirrels for the next 3 hours.)? And then last year, when I was all up and excited about the 700-1000 squirrel that the Verminator, a newbie and I shot in an 8 hour day? Well, squirrel shooters, that hay ranch might be willing to let groups of hunters reserve days if they’re willing to pay for it.
Before you get all uppity about paying for shooting squirrels, remember how it sucks driving around all day and not being able to find a rancher that’ll let you shoot on his place, especially when the weekend already cost you $400 in gas, hotel, food and licenses? Remember how he took one look at your pretty pickup or shiny SUV, and just knew you were a Portland or Seattle hunter, and didn’t want you within 20 miles of his stock? Or, the 3 years that you waited to get a team into the Unity Squirrel Shoot for $450 bucks, and then only ended up getting 23 squirrels in 8 hours, and that was split between 6 shooters (real story)? So quit your bitchin about the money already….
I’ll let you know when I know more.
Last year, on the Sunday after the Unity, Oregon Annual Squirrel Roundup, the Oakes Ranch had a 4-H fundraising shoot for anyone who wanted to come. They were doing it for local 4H kids to help with travel expenses, and it was great chance for teams from the Squirrel Roundup to show off their shooting and help the local community.
I called and asked if they were doing it again this year, but since there aren’t any 4H kids traveling overseas this year, there wasn’t any call for the fundraiser. So, you guys that were hoping to win some money doing long range shooting on Sunday, are going to have to find something else to do…
Henry Rifles has a new varmint rifle out, that I can’t wait to try (I already ordered one in 17HMR!). Their new varmint rifle is an all-stainless steel, semi-heavy barrel, single-shot, bolt action rifle chambered in .22 LR, .22 Magnum or the .17 HMR. It comes with a 4x scope with a cantilever scope mount at no extra charge. If you prefer not to use a scope, it’s also outfitted with a set of Williams Fire Sights. Stick all of this on a one piece synthetic stock, and you have the start of a great squirrel gun. Since Henry is known for the smoothest of actions, I can’t wait to try it out in the squirrel fields this spring.
Stay tuned to find out more after I get it, and if you want to see what I’m talking about, go to Henry’s website to read all about their new Accu-Bolt Varmint Rifle.
I finally broke down and spent the day going through dvd’s from last year’s squirrel shooting trips. I didn’t try to do anything artistic with this video, but it does quell the basic need for seeing squirrels getting whacked… I’ll try to get up some more videos in the next week or two, so check back.
All of these squirrels were shot using my Savage 17hmr accutrigger, with Hornady 17gr ballistic tip bullets. On a side note, there’s nothing like having a video camera mounted on your rifle to show you when you jerk the trigger.
It’s winter, and I’m weary of it. Here’s a 9 minute squirrel shooting video to get every body thinking about the new squirrel hunting season. The squirrels will start popping up in March, and as soon as they start popping up, I’m going to start popping them.
These guys are using a 22 magnum and a hand held camera, so the camera work is a little shaky from time to time, but we all started out that way.
I was looking at the squirrel shooting videos that I have on Youtube tonight, and decided to see how many video views we’ve had since the first squirrel videos went up. According to the viewing records, our squirrel shooting videos have been watched over 800,000 times in the last 2 years.
We get almost 1,000,000 page views a year on shootingsquirrels.com, it kind of makes me wonder how many people we’ve sent to other Youtube squirrel videos from this site, since we post quite a few from other people too. You’re probably wondering why I’m wondering this…. Or Not.
Well, the reason is because I’m looking for a new title for myself, like “Squirrel Video King” or the “Squirrel Splatter King” or just “That Weird Ass Guy Who Films Dead Squirrels”…
What do you guys think? (Or should I just start taking my Meds again and forget about it?)
I love watching what .223’s and .22-250’s do to Prairie Dogs. I have a couple of friends who live in Montana, and I really need to get over there and shoot some P Dogs with my Bushmaster .223 next year. The sound of a .223 ballistic tip hitting a dog has got to be way more satisfying than the sound of a .17HMR hitting a ground squirrel…. (OK, I’m pretty sure that I don’t really believe that. I’m sure that both sounds are VERY satisfying. LOL)
The North American Hunter magazine is now offering shooters on ShootingSquirrels.com the chance to Test Free Hunting Gear…And Keep It!. So, if you are interested in getting a free issue of North American Hunter, which is a magazine that fosters an appreciation of the outdoor heritage and the relationship between hunting and conservation, as well as provides how-to editorials on big game hunting, small game hunting, upland bird hunting and waterfowl hunting, as well as giving you the chance to test hunting gear, then check them out. Also, if you join their hunt club testing group, you get free gear to evaluate and keep. They’ve given away more than $3,000,000 worth of outdoor and hunting gear this way, and with the cheap crowd we have around here, that should work out perfectly… LOL
My kids and I like this movie. I know most of you redneck squirrel whackers won’t admit to liking something like this, but you should at least like Doug’s squirrel joke (Doug is the talking dog for you boys from Montana….).
