Originally Posted By: 6mm06
Cherokee, I have also used the Mr. Squirrel to get them to squacking at me as a locator, but I don't use it very often. I mainly just still hunt, or just find a promising spot and sit down for a while.
This evening I returned yet again to the same hillside. Squirrels were everywhere. There doesn't seem to be any shortage of them this year. I ended up with 4 but couldn't find one. All were head shot.
Almost immediately after entering the woods I saw a squirrel go down the side of a hickory. He disappeared and I didn't see him again. I continued on down the path for maybe 50 yards and saw one on the distant hillside to the left in the photo. I sat down and waited for a few minutes, my back to a tree and using a bipod for a rest. A head shot dropped him. Instantly another one in a nearby tree began squacking at me. A second shot dropped him also with a head shot. Distances were between 30-40 yards.
I continued on down the path and saw another one in a hickory. Another head shot and he dropped
like a sack of potatoes down the steep hillside to the right in this photo. Try as I might I could not
find him in all the leaves. I walked down the hillside quite a ways from the base of the tree, round
and round up and down the hillside, but couldn't find him. Not sure if he was wounded and crawled
off or what.
Suddenly I saw another squirrel at a distance and put a stalk on him. After closing the distance,
I once again sat with my back to a tree and rifle on the bipod for another head shot. A back rest
and bipod really helps steady the rifle for accurate shooting.
The woods are beautiful right now with the colored foliage.
This is a scaly bark hickory.
Here's three of the four squirrels I shot this evening, all head shots. I heard several more squacking
so there's a lot more down there. It was getting pretty dark in the woods when I took these photos.
The 541-S is really getting a good workout this year and I hope to do more.
I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to say what a great collection of photos of your hunts! Thanks!...I don't post enough on forums, just glad that there are enough kindred spirits that do! Take care...