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Fox doesn't your state have hunting seasons on shooting racoons ?

I'm betting except in dream land you ain't been squirrel hunting in 50 years.

Guess next you'll tell us you landed on the beaches of Normandy.

I've enjoyed reading and seeing pics of Blake. Great remembrances.

I once had a good friend who kept a pack of dogs to run bobcats. They would trail nothing else. They would bay, or tree them, eventually and he would kill the 'cat. He had a little feist that rode in the cab of the truck with him everywhere. Little fella always wanted to get in on the fun, but was never allowed. He feared for his safety, with a big cat. One day he drove as close to where the dogs were treed as possible, and got out to walk to them. He thought he left the feist shut up in the truck, and walked in to the set-to. As he approached the scene he saw that the cat had backed down in a hole left where a big tree had been uprooted, and was backed up against the rootwad. A blowdown like that is locally referred to as a "harrikin". About then the feist came running in from behind him, shot through the pack of hounds and in an instant leapt and seized the big 'cat by the throat. With help from the other dogs he hung on until he suffocated the 'cat.

My friend never doubted that little feist again.

SRH

I bet the fiest belonged to a guy name of little Johnny....

OK-- Joseph-- In MI- you can shoot raccoons, fox, coyotes and woodchucks on private lands with the landowners permission year around- and if the farmer has crop damage permits, deer- even in the summer- No limit either, except on the deer.

I usually hunt waterfowl in the mornings Oct-mid Nov. and if the day is warm and sunny and the leaves are coming down, squirrel hunt in the afternoons-- so,you lose your bet.

The only vermin/predator with a "season" here are corvids- due to some "Toro-Caca" based treaty with Mexico years ago-but even then, there is a loophole- "If the crows are either a nuisance or are causing depredation (look that word up in your FunkinWagnalls) you are allowed to kill them, no limit.

Limit on Fox squirrels is 5/day- grey or black (Obama specials)- we get few black squirrels around here- but in the Battle Creek area, they are abundant- Mr. C.W. Post brought a pair back from a trip to Europe in 1910- turned them loose on his estate, and they took off like dresses on prom night-

I don't dream about hunting squirrels, I do it- and enjoy shooting any of my scoped .22's (mainly Winchesters-pre-1960) for "tree rats". Stay well- RWTF

RWTF, your black fox squirrels did not come from Europe. They are a North American species. Just a different color morph.

We have Abert's squirrels here, mostly the grey variety but we have black ones too. Never shot an abert's squirrel but killed a bunch of grey squirrels growing up. Rabbits too but then I developed an allergy to rabbit fur so they get a pass from me these days.

Me too- but I get a rash on my fingers after dressing our Rabbits, so I also give them a pass- fried rabbit- yumm- tastes like chicken. But I use a rabbit fur decoy, and the squealing rabbit call on my Johnny Stewart electronic game called to lure coyotes to their doom- in Jan-Feb---RWTF

Abert's are extremely tasty. And live in cool country that is great fun to hunt. The black variety up on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon are called Kiabab squirrels but they are just melanistic Aberts.

I am real surprised no one has mentioned gray squirrels boiled, deboned and then cooked with dumplings. Use over a half stick of butter, black pepper, and man is that a meal.

I always made Brunswick stew out of them, and never concerned myself with whether they were old, or young animals. I did cheat, and use beef bouillon for the stock, or, if I had it, canned beef gravy. If browning the squirrels prior to stewing them made a difference, I couldn�t tell. I also preferred mashed potatoes on the side, but, potatoes in the pot was good as well. It always seemed to come out good, and I fed it to more than one person over the years who became �other dark meat� converts.

Best,
Ted