u put it on ice and yea u can and u wont see near as much cause they do hibernate right now but that doesnt mean u wont see any and squirrel is really good tell me if u get one good luck and can u plz vote me best anserSquirrel hunting question?
You will try when most likely squirrel season is closed and it's illegal to hunt them. Yes ,they will be abundant but if you get caught, you'll be paying an abundant fine too and loose your hunting privileges. I see you chose the answer that suits you best. What's the use in asking a question?
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BTW, squirrels don't hibernate, why do you think the answer you chose had 2 thumbs down?
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Squirrels are seen all year round, Ive seen some in my back yard when its been snowing. Whether or not you can hunt them all year round Im not sure, but they are on the quarry list in Britain so I see no problem with it. Ive seen river cottage and I know he is a big fan of squirrel, he bases it in red wine and marinates it for 24 hours. I am keen to try this. On any animal, as soon as you shot it it is advised you gut if not skin it as it will all start to stink and potentially ruin the meat. I stick with never freezing fresh meat, after all, its not fresh after that. Especially if it has not been skinned yet, but skinning is fairly easy.
all of this depends on where you are there is usually a season and bag limit here is a link for bag limits:http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templa鈥?/a>
if you wan good results, find a group of nut bearing trees an sit and wait and dont make any movements use your call every 5 or 6 minutes and after you shoot your squirrel put it in a bag so the scent doesent spook all the others
Attracting squirrels to you usually doesn't work very well. I have not used any squirrel calls with much success at all. Sometimes the Knight and Hale squirrel juvenile distress call will catch their attention, but don't try and use one without lots of practice. Baiting in some states may be illegal, so scouting is your best answer. Squirrels are not hard to find. Look on your states department of conservation or wildlife site to see what your season is, daily limits and possession limits are.
Young squirrels you can fry like chicken with little preparation but the older squirrels do best if you crock pot them for 4 hours or so before frying or perhaps squirrel and dumplings. I make patty melts with them too.
You need to skin and gut a squirrel before freezing, they do just fine if kept cool for a bit before you dress them, but the sooner the better.
Squirrels taste like a dark meat chicken. There is little to no useable meat on the ribcage but I do use them to make broth for dumplings, but to fry, I use the forelegs including the shoulder, the hind quarters and tenderloin area. This yeilds the most meat. Remember with an older squirrel, they do better simmering them on the stove top or crock pot for about 4 hours before frying or stewing or they will be tough.
Squirrels are prey animals and use hearing and sight to look for potential preditors and they will see and hear you long before you will see them and off to their dens they will go.
Quiet is the key with squirrel hunting The most ideal time to go is when it is cold and sunny, little to no wind and at sun up or shortly after in the morning. When it is windy or cloudy squirrels will stir but stay close to their holes (dens). When the weather is nice they will pilfer around just about all morning. When it's very windy you're lucky to see one unless it's in a well sheltered draw or hollar. Another good time to go is about 45 minutes to an hour before sunset. Again, sunny, little or no wind. They will come out and forage around until in most cases after dark.
With a fox squirrel, they come out a bit later than the grey squirrels. With experience you will be able to tell with their barks if it's a grey or a fox (red) squirrel. You can usually find them about mid morning and throughout the day sunning themselves on branches, look in the pocket between the limb and trunk closely, you'll most often see them there sunning or eating.
This time of year, look around any oak trees for either kind of squirrel. A good sign is if you find acorn shell castings around the trees. Many times you'll see holes in the tree where they have dug out old woodpecker nests and made them into their own nests. You'll know you have found a well used one if you find all the bark scrapped off around the hole from their claws as they go in and out.
Stay well hidden and as quiet as you can around a large grove of tall oak trees and you're sure to see one. They like the taller trees for escape from preditors.
The favorite place I like to go this time of year is a large grove of oak tress with cedars around and by them for cover for the squirrels and me. I try and get there before they come out in the morning and again before they come out in the evening which means sometimes a bit of a wait. But it's worth it. You can also save the tails for your local trout fly rigger.
Hope you get your limit :o)
Best to find a nice open spot in the woods, put your back against a tree %26amp; sit quietly, if you have a scope on your rifle scope the branches and look for that tell tail hair where they might be hiding behind a branch - handy to have some small pebbles you could toss out to make the squirrel scoot around a branch or show him self best to skin while there still warm after you have killed them - taste like chicken - ate allot of them while growing up.
to find them you have to hunt. I have tried the calls with little or no result squirrel tastes kinda like chiken but it s a little tough. after you are done hunting you should skin it then gut it. dont freeze it until you skin and gut it
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