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.
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.
Monroe shocks and struts is running an ad campaign about how squirrels make bad decisions and that drivers who want to save the lives of squirrels need to make sure they have good shocks and struts for quick and even stopping power. It’s a pretty creative ad campaign for the average citizen, but it makes me want to go take the shocks and struts off my truck…
Monroe is running their ad campaign on a site called SavingSquirrels.com, I wonder if we should sue the people over at Monroe shocks and struts… Doesn’t SavingSquirrels.com sound a lot like ShootingSquirrels.com?
The people at Monroe put a frogger-like game on their site. The object of the game is to get your squirrel across the road while picking up all the nuts. You can also pick up shocks and struts to stop the traffic and get extra points… I think. If you want to play, wander over to the Squirrel Frogger Game Page at SavingSquirrels.com. It’s all I can do not to run the squirrel under the tires of the monster truck. The game makes me “Conflicted”, I want to win, but I don’t want to help the squirrel. LOL
Have fun “NOT” squishing squirrels.
