HideHunter
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85 degrees, leaves, a combination of sweat and skeeter dope running in my eyes, wet weeds to my waist, leaves, spider webs the size of hay rope wrapped around my face, squirrels the size of mice in trees the size of the Effiel Tower.. scope half-fogged up and leaves... I'd forgotten how much I love squirrel hunting.
Well - it wasn't the first opener I had missed in 50+ years but I'll bet the first in the last 15. Good old Isaac. Pouring down rain and forecasted to do so all day. Son and sil were home. We had decided to skip it if it was raining.
FF to Sunday. 68 degrees and close to 100% humidity. Sil couldn't make it. Son killed a pair and I managed 5 - couldn't find that last one for a limit. We had family stuff to do and I just ran out of time.
Monday.. SIL went. He killed 4, I killed 5. My sixth squirrel "posed" at 25 yards, broad-side and silhouetted
in a nice circle of leaves. Looked like a picture in story book.
"The Streak" (such as it was) ended at 10 when I shot a limb about 5 feet in front of my gun barrel. Couldn't see it in the scope. Never did find the 6th one. More family stuff - Ran out of time again.
Yesterday morning - 72 freaking degrees and 100% humidity. Never saw a squirrel or a limb bounce until 7:30. Killed the first one I saw and just started moving. Finally killed my 6 and I don't think any two of them were within 200 yards of each other.
Nothing very dramatic. Just another picture of the Space Gun and 6 squirrels. But at least it's a limit and my first of the season. Supposed to cool off the next few days. Lows in the 50s. I'm ready.
How's everyone else doing?
Well - it wasn't the first opener I had missed in 50+ years but I'll bet the first in the last 15. Good old Isaac. Pouring down rain and forecasted to do so all day. Son and sil were home. We had decided to skip it if it was raining.
FF to Sunday. 68 degrees and close to 100% humidity. Sil couldn't make it. Son killed a pair and I managed 5 - couldn't find that last one for a limit. We had family stuff to do and I just ran out of time.
Monday.. SIL went. He killed 4, I killed 5. My sixth squirrel "posed" at 25 yards, broad-side and silhouetted
in a nice circle of leaves. Looked like a picture in story book.
Yesterday morning - 72 freaking degrees and 100% humidity. Never saw a squirrel or a limb bounce until 7:30. Killed the first one I saw and just started moving. Finally killed my 6 and I don't think any two of them were within 200 yards of each other.
Nothing very dramatic. Just another picture of the Space Gun and 6 squirrels. But at least it's a limit and my first of the season. Supposed to cool off the next few days. Lows in the 50s. I'm ready.
How's everyone else doing?