Squirrel in crosshairs3/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ground squirrels are most often considered a pest and can do great damage to crops in some areas. It is currently one of the most popular calibers for squirrels. 17 hit the market about 30 years ago, and quickly caught on with sharpshooters and predator hunters, and eventually squirrel hunters. ![]() Many of the present era hunters have discovered the great advantages of hunting with the. However, there is still a corps of hunter-gatherer types in the country who still relish going to the woods to hunt squirrels. To most Americans squirrels are now a cute little bushy-tailed rodent that inhabit parks and neighborhood bird feeders. Today 97 percent of Americans live on three percent of the land. Much has changed in the near century that has passed since those needy times. Most of those farm boys headed to the squirrel woods packing a single shot. Squirrels were plentiful and hard times pressed many a farm into squirrel hunting service to put food on the family table. Around 1930 roughly two-thirds of Americans lived in a rural setting. Poncho grabbed it and tried to keep it for himself, but Trujillo gently reminded him to retrieve it with a touch of the E-collar remote control.A few decades ago squirrels were the most commonly hunted small game animal in the United States. When it did not fall immediately, Trujillo shot it again with the shotgun to make sure it did not enter a hollow. ![]() I aligned the crosshairs and hit the squirrel with a hollow-point bullet. Trujillo still could not spot it, but I did. The squirrel scampered from its hiding place, climbing to a higher vantage point. 22-caliber target rifle with a 3x9-power Burris scope. 6 shot while I was carrying my Remington 541-T, an extremely accurate. He was carrying a 20-gauge over-under shotgun loaded with No. We could not see the squirrel, so he shook a sapling near the oak where the squirrel was hiding. Trujillo headed into the cover while I stayed on the open ridge overlooking the swampy area. In moments, he was barking in the thick brush bordering a small creek. Trujillo fitted an electronic training collar to Poncho. But even during deer season, if I hunt in the middle of the day, few other hunters are in the woods because most of them hunt a couple of hours after sunrise and before sunset." "That way, I am not interfering with someone else's hunt. "I really like hunting the public lands after deer season ends," he said. It opens in mid-October and goes out the last day of February. Most of the year, squirrel season is closed. Trujillo said he had walked off 30 pounds by taking Poncho out on training walks. But I would rather have a dedicated squirrel dog." A cur is an all-around dog and you can do use them for different game. I am still working on breaking him from chasing deer and rabbits. Poncho is now 2 years old and has treed more than 30 squirrels that Trujillo has taken home. Trujillo said he took Poncho to the woods near his home in Castle Hayne nearly every day, all year long. It was so much fun that, once I had the time, I decided to get a squirrel dog." We hunted afternoons after school and on weekends. "I lived in the North Carolina mountains when I was a kid and had a friend who had a squirrel dog. "I bought Poncho from a breeder in South Carolina," Trujillo said. Whining in his kennel during most of the trip was Poncho, a Parnell's Carolina cur. Bruce Trujillo, who operates Tight Loop Charters (91) during the warmer months when people are more interested in coming to the beach to fish for Spanish and king mackerel, amberjack and other species of offshore game fish from his catamaran. The property is in the North Carolina Wildlife Commission's Game Lands program under a cooperative agreement. Nevertheless, we had driven from Wilmington to Bladen Lakes State Forest. It was early afternoon on a day in late December, with an occasional glimmer of sunlight trying unsuccessfully to chase away the dreariness of an overcast day. ![]()
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