Call Jennifer at: (541) 542-2608

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The squirrels are just starting to venture out. I saw my first one a couple days ago (A big fat one!). I hear they are out pretty good in Hereford and Ironside/Cow Valley which is typical. I’m sure it won’t be long and they will be out here too!

Stock up on .223 and .17 HMR and head for Eastern Oregon people. LOL

See you there…

I guess one way to control the part of the population that lives in rural America, and shoots, is to control reloading components and live ammunition. Since they decided to reduce the price of gas, after the economy collapsed, they changed tactics and decided that the next best way to control the rural population would be to take away their ability to defend themselves… or attack; if the Idjits in Washington can’t back off and leave well enough alone…

In the meantime, there doesn’t seem to be a shortage on .17HMR, so I will continue to wage war against sage rats when they start popping up in the spring.

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We are now setting up reservations for shooting squirrels. Cost will be $100 per day per shooter. Does not include lodging. Motel, RV Parking, Camping available. We’ve had some that want to camp and some that want separate rooms etc, so we decided to just go a flat rate for shooting. 50% deposit required at time of Reservation. Youth under 17 are $75 per day Mentored youth under 13 are Free. All Oregon Hunting Regulations apply. Must have OR Resident hunting License ($22.50) or Non-Resident License ($76.50) age 14 or older. Under 17 years must also carry a Hunter Education Card. These are just a couple highlighted requirements to be aware of.

We have areas suitable for large caliber shooting as well as the small caliber. Even archery if they want. Contact Cindy or Bill to make reservations or if they have any questions.

Thanks, Unity Motel, Unity Country Store and Bill and Cindy. 541-446-3431 (home) 541-446-3636 Store/Motel

ps. Does anyone know where the heck I put the big box of reloading dies I was going to take to the gunshow this weekend? Man I’m getting old…

City folks in NYC, who normally dress as well as they eat, are forgoing lavish dinner parties and instead, settling for a type of dinner one might find in a West Virginian mobile home. With the stock market in shreds, banks closing and a government in serious doubt and debt, city dwellers have turned to eating a native cousin of the city rat; tree squirrels.

Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbes were recently spotted in Central Park kneeled down with dress shoes on, behind an evergreen shrub, with crossman sling shots in hand. No, they were not waiting for Mr. Big to walk by for a sudden ambush attack. The four gorgeous girls were waiting to ambush a wandering squirrel unaware of the uncertain motives these four girls had.

Squirrels are no longer safe in the metro-hip districts of New York City. Dinner parties once featuring NY Strips and Filet Mignons are now being replaced by more affordable meat; one that requires a slingshot or high-powered pellet gun to catch, a pocketknife to skin and a few classic squirrel recipes found at www.woodybobs.com/squirrelrecipes.html.

At a recent dinner party charity event for the Association of Melvin Brooks Cancer Research, squirrel fillet, with sides of fruits and fresh vegetables, were carried atop sterling silver trays and served by white suited, bow tied, waiters. The buffet featured a popular WoodyBobs.com squirrel recipe – “Fried Squirrel and Gravy.” The girls in their swanky dresses and the guys dressed as neatly as James Bond, devoured squirrel meat and drank Night Train with the gusto of an Arkansayer.

Meanwhile, Back in West Virginia, Norma was cooking the family’s nightly dinner ‘Sunday Chicken’, which was once cooked by her great grandmother during the Great Depression in 1929. Sunday chicken was a mere joke during the depression, it was cooked every day, or at least any time a squirrel wandered into the yard or a nearby tree…

For more from Woody Bob, visit Woodybobs.com

(Not that it matters, really. This site is mostly for westerners, who shoot squirrels and let the lower life forms eat the remains, not southerners, who eat the f***’n hairy rats themselves. EEEEEEwwwwweeeee!)

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I won’t be posting any of my own until I figure out what’s wrong with my video program, but I will starting posting some from Youtube and other video sites so that we at least have something to talk about in the forums. If any of you guys see a video you like, send me the link and I may post it for you… especially if it’s one of yours.

Squirrel Misser… Used to be Sniper, but I haven’t shot at anything in so long I’d probably miss a barn, from the inside.

Here’s how I mounted my Sony Handycam to my .17HMR rifle:

First I went to Wal-Mart and bought the tallest set of rings they had. Wal-Mart had pretty good prices on their rings, and I got a set of Leupold scope rings for less than $17.00.

I then went to the local camera supply store and bought a whole bunch of odds and ends that they had in their junk drawer. The main things though, that I ended up needing for my scope mounted video camera, were the base screw and washers that are used to screw video cameras to all tripods.

I then went home and dug through a box of over 150 scope bases that I bought a few years ago at an auction. I ended up finding one that was the right length, and fit the rings I bought at Wal-Mart to a “T”. Then, all I had to do was drill a hole in the base so that I could mount the screw so that it would hold my video camera to the rail.

I then attached the new set of scope rings to my scope, which now has 4 scope rings on it instead of the usual two. Unfortunately, the rail with the video camera on it now goes over the vertical adjustment knob on my scope, but, oh well, I can live with that.

After getting the whole thing put together and mounted on the rifle, the thing was crazy top heavy. So I ran back to Wal-Mart and bought a bi-pod for $40.00. Once I got the bi-pod attached to the rifle, everything worked like a charm.

I then sighted in on the neighbor’s house down the block. (Don’t try this if you live in a town with jumpy cops. LOL) When I put the cross hairs on the scope on the doorknob on my neighbor’s house, the camera was dead on. As a matter of fact, the knob was actually 3/4 of the way down the screen, which is perfect for catching squirrels on tape when you pop them into the air with a Hornaday 17HMR ballistic tip.

Here’s a picture of the rifle without the camera. Notice the extra set of rings and the rail on top of the scope:

Here’s a picture of the rifle with the video camera mounted to the scope:

Here’s a picture that shows you where the action takes place when you pull the trigger. You can see how the picture captures your subject about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom of the camera.

Every time I drive by, I want to pull over, get out my .17HMR and start shooting .17 grain Hornaday ballistic tips into their little furry bodies. But, since it’s in town, and I’d probably have to shoot across a major intersection, I’m talking traffic lights and all here folks, I figure i should set a good example for my kids and not get arrested for any more weapons violations. (Especially remembering what a pain the last one was…)

Speaking of contractors in Walla Walla, after the squirrels attacked the house in January, I finally got everything fixed back up. I went to WallaWallaContractors.com and got a roofing company to fix my roof and facia, and had a fencing contractor fix the fence damage. I even had to have an Electrician from Walla Walla Electric come out and fix some lights that got knocked over in the windstorm. The only thing left is the tree, or what’s left of it, that needs to come out. I’ll probably wait and do that one myself, instead of calling a tree removal company.

On another note, I think I’m going to do a PETA video tonight or tomorrow and post it on youtube. I have about 1 hour of footage of me missing squirrels that I’m shooting at. That should make them happy.

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Put your shooting glasses on-
Spread your gear across the lawn-
Dontcha know its Squirrel Blasting Day!

All the hunters with their toys-
Love that wonderful splatting noise-
You’ll know what this is all about-
When you blast a Squirrels guts right out-
So come along and have a laugh-
Snap their Squirrelly spines in half-
Grab a gun and blast your cares away-
Hip-Hip-Hooray its Squirrel Blasting Day!

Snipers and the guns they wield-
Blasting Squirrels across the field-
Why we do it who can say-
It’s like a festive holiday-
So let the blasting fun begin-
Blast their Squirrelly skulls right in-
It’s tradition that makes it ok-
Hey everyone its Squirrel Blasting-
Pick up your gun its Squirrel Blasting-
Hip-Hip-HOORAY its Squirrel Blasting Day!!!

Just click on the play button to watch what a .17 HMR Ruger will do to a rabbit, and then click on it again if it doesn’t start.

Can you imagine sitting in a field full of ground squirrels with this rifle and a box of Twinkies. (I’m pretty sure you would need the extra sugar to counteract the adrenaline rush from shooting this gun.)

Click on the picture to make it play!

Shooting squirrels is way better than sitting in Cancun with 90 degree temps and 99.9% humidity. Sure, Cancun sounds like a good time when it’s snowing and 20 degrees outside, but Cancun’s humidity takes all the fun out of it. Cancun can’t even come close to touching Cabo San Lucas, which is on the Baja peninsula, and is dry.

Here is a list of my current ailments:

• Runny, snotty eyes for the last 6 days.
• Really bad scars from the bad Henna Tattoo I had done on my face… (Could be why the eyes aren’t working.)
• Lungs are full of fluid and I have a bad cough.
• Kidneys hurt so bad I can barely walk or move.
• Wait, everything hurts so I can barely move.
• Queasy.
• Diarrhea.

I’ll write soon…. if I live!

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Bob said that:

NOTE: In all fairness, the DEP Biologist did get back to me and he has always responded to my letters. It was the Sergeant that simply didn’t believe me. Here’s what the biologist wrote:

For those of you who haven’t read Bob’s cougar story, go to http://rimfirehunting.blogspot.com/2007/09/hidden-dangers-at-roraback.html and read it.

In the post I did on Bob’s cougar story and my wolf story, I didn’t mention that the cattle rancher who gave me permission to hunt on their property told me that there had been two cougar sightings on their property the day before, within 10 minutes of each other, 3 miles apart. You might think a cougar could do 3 miles in 10 minutes, but not when one mile is straight up over a mountain, and another mile is straight down the other side. (The other issue is, “if you see one, there’s 10 more watching you”.)

She also told me that the year before, they had had a bowhunter come in all white and shaky and tell them that a cougar had been stalking him, and that he had turned around and seen it just in time to get up from where he was sitting and attack it first. (Yelling, waiving his arms etc…) He told the lady that owns the ranch that he would never bow hunt again without taking a pistol or rifle with him, even if he got a ticket for it.

I also play poker with a guy who says he has been stalked by a cougar three times in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Twice, when elk hunting, he has followed his own trail back to camp in the snow and seen cougar tracks covering his. Another time, when he stopped to use the outhouse at Target Meadows, above the Tollgate ranger station, he came out of the outhouse to see that a cougar had walked around the outhouse three times when he was in there; it had just started to snow as he left his truck.

We also lost an elderly man, who was a diabetic, in that same area this year. He left camp to pick huckleberries, and just disappeared. One of the search guys said that he ran into a cougar 20 feet off the trail, about 100 yards from the guys trailer. He also said there was a ton of bear sign too. (The whole thing freaks me out a little since I got lost up there once when I was a kid…. Overnight! Ahhhh!)