Squirrels........Where they at! [Archive]

Arkansas Archer

10-09-2005, 08:57 PM

Are you guys and gals seeing any squirrels? For the last two weekends ive seen maybe five just wondering if its like this all over the state.

austincrutchfield

10-09-2005, 09:15 PM

here in south arkansas they are alot of them but i just got back from a huntin trip around clarksville and the 10 ppl in camp conbined only killed 14 but here in the south between me and my cousin and my dad we have killed about 30 or so

Sylamore

10-09-2005, 09:53 PM

Squirrels are nesting and not many will be seen until about the time the November deer season opens for Modern gun.

Arkansas Archer

10-09-2005, 10:25 PM

Nesting? Maybe so but every october around here you almost have to beat them off your tree just to get in it. I have never seen so few while hunting.

Mr. Chitlin

10-09-2005, 10:47 PM

My son and I were hunting this past weekend at HE Alexander and the squirrels liked to have carried us out of the woods. We both could have limited out in just a few minutes sitting in one place. I saw one tree that had around 10 squirrels in it at one time. I was wishing for my 17 HMR instead of the muzzleloader.

.270Win

10-09-2005, 10:54 PM

I went hunting in Stuttgart this morning with my brother.... we saw LOTS of squirrels but didn't kill very many. The gray squirrels were VERY spooky and the woods were VERY dry.... not a good combination. :rolleyes:

.270Win

Sylamore

10-09-2005, 11:16 PM

Mr Chitlin,

How did you do on the Alexander, ML hunt? It has been about four years since I hunted over there. Saw a lot of does and finally killed one right at last light on the edge of a big field. I was hunting on the south edge of the WMA. I heard a lot of shots during the day, but not many deer were checked.

I think there are more squirrels over there than any place in Arkansas.

I have been in the woods around here a lot over the past week and all I am seeing are very very small squirrels. Probably their first or second trip out of the nest. I don't know why they are so late here unless the extremely dry weather was a factor. Most of the guys I have talked to that have killed a few say they are killing mostly males.

Hope you had a good hunt with your son.

Mr. Chitlin

10-09-2005, 11:39 PM

metalback

10-10-2005, 05:29 AM

Up here in the Ouchita's outside Mena there are a ton of squirrels---no problem limiting out at any time----just cruise the road and pull over when you see nut trees.

fish

10-10-2005, 08:04 AM

Squirrels are spotty this year, find a grove of hickory trees and most are boars. The sows are still nesting and we'll see lots of young;ns in Novenber. We could use more rain for muzzle loader season and squirrel hunting

TheBattman

10-10-2005, 08:30 AM

Syl,

We saw very few deer, all slickheads. It was an either sex hunt, but we were going to wait and see if a buck came by. There were 18 deer checked as of Saturday eve, 6 bucks and 12 does. A couple of nice bucks were checked, one doe was checked that weighed 15 (yes fifteen) pounds. It still had white spots on it. I had to look at the check sheet twice to make sure deerhunter hadn't checked it in :biggrin: . I might try to take off one afternoon this week and hunt up there again.

I wonder if the "hunter" who checked the spotted fawn was ticketed. I believe that is a violation of the rules. (even if deerhunter would argue the point!).

That's just rediculous. I would imagine that little thing was about blown in two. I wonder if they had to weigh each piece and add it together to get the 15 lbs....

Mr. Chitlin

10-10-2005, 08:53 AM

I wonder if the "hunter" who checked the spotted fawn was ticketed. I believe that is a violation of the rules.

I have never known that to be a violation. I have seen it before, and even talked to a few WO's about it. One told me that they don't care if young ones are harvested, if you have a hard winter with very little food, the oldest and youngest will be the first to die off. He also said that it leaves the "breeders".

Now understand that I don't condone it, but I don't think it is a violation for it.

Mr. Chitlin

10-10-2005, 08:56 AM

Since this is a topic on squirrels (started off that way, anyhow :biggrin: ), I moved it from Bowhunting to Small Game.

MountainBuck

10-10-2005, 11:18 AM

Since this is a topic on squirrels (started off that way, anyhow :biggrin: ), I moved it from Bowhunting to Small Game.

Just like Always!!! Glad to see you are Still Right on TOP of Everything Mr. C. :thumb:

Mr. Chitlin

10-10-2005, 11:34 AM

Gotta earn that Moderator pay, MB!! :thumb:

Sylamore

10-10-2005, 10:30 PM

I deer hunted today from dawn to dusk witha cross bow. Came close but no cigar.

Just to have something to do I kept a record of the squirrels I saw today.

Total squirrel sighted -11.
Obviously young - 4
Squirrels heard barking but not sighted- 7.
Squirrels sighted on the ground - 5. (all others were high in the oak/hickory trees.
Squirrel hunters in the wood sighted - 0.
Shots fired that might have been a squirrel hunter 5 (shotgun). estimated distance away one half mile or more.

Anyway I sure enjoyed the day and got to see three deer. Did not shoot at any of them......to far with a crossbow.

:thumb:

justin1a2

10-12-2005, 07:29 AM

The females around here are having little ones, making it pretty touch hunting.

Ty-Bo67

10-12-2005, 07:46 AM

There at my place racin nascar in the tree above my stand. :eek:

austincrutchfield

10-12-2005, 08:09 AM

There at my place racin nascar in the tree above my stand. :eek:

Ty how bout u say i come over there and put a little debri on there race track if u no what i mean :wink: :thumb:

snydedawg

10-12-2005, 09:55 AM

I've been seeing very few tree-rats this year.....kinda sucks too, the trees are loaded with acorns; so I had high expectations for the squirrels!!

Guess that'll leave more grub for the deer and turkey though!!!

hortonhunter

10-12-2005, 10:06 AM

Had the best squirrel hunts I have ever had mainly because season opened statewide in Sept so we hunted on our lease in near Rison and I limited out each morning for 2 weekends in a row thinned them out so the deer can get a few Acorns :thumb: Sightings now have slowed though w/ bow season in :thumb:

VALES

10-13-2005, 12:06 PM

I Have Been Hunting Down South And Have Seen Several Hundred Per Day. They Are Everywhere.

varmit_master

11-06-2005, 06:03 AM

Hi here the last week and a half i havent seen but just a few tree rats . I used to see all kinds of them. Will they move around alot to find the good acrons this time of the yr. VM:confused:

Sylamore

11-07-2005, 05:02 PM

VM

I am not seeing that many squirrels either. I don't know if it is the weather or just a low in the population cycle for this area.
I'm not seeing very many young ones either.

Earnhardt fan #1

11-07-2005, 09:20 PM

Young ones is ALL I've seen and been able to take. Haven't seen many older but maybe wizer than I tree rats but I have seen my fair share and am willin go to let you have a few if not more:biggrin: Just check out my feeder

varmit_master

11-08-2005, 02:27 AM

Hi over the 2 day youth hunt my nephew and i seen only 2 tree rats. Both days i check on my big feeder and it was throwing corn out and not a thing was eating it. So i turn it all the way down. I thought about takeing my nephew tree rat hunting today but no more than i have seen. I will let them go for seed lol.And SYLAMORE the 2 i seen look to be old ones. VM

hortonhunter

11-08-2005, 09:06 AM

This past weekend while I was bowhunting I seen lots of those tree rats,, appeared to be young ones seen 4 in a small oak den tree that never left that tree all afternoon frolocking around playing like moma told them not to get out of that tree or else seen others around in pin oaks near my setup

big shorty

11-09-2005, 04:10 PM

Squirrels will migrate from one area to another depending on food supply.In an area where you see alot of them, they may eat all the food quickly and move on . so the next time you go back there will be less of them. So I was told by a very woods wise man. And I always believe my dad.