Hunting

BersaOwner · Sep 27, 2012

What kind of hunting do you do?
What is in season in your area?

Here in Indiana it is squirrel season & urban deer season(bow).
Regular deer bow season starts Oct.1, I would have been out scouting but we had a heavy rain storm come through & couldn't get out.
Urban is bow only hunting in the outlying county just outside the major city's to help with deer reduction. I would be hunting urban if I could find someone with land in the county.

I will be out Oct. 1, I have my spot already picked out.

SHOOTER13 · Sep 27, 2012

Tree Rats...

Did someone say squirrels...?!

Took these in my Kill Zone ( backyard ) with my Gamo Whisper in .177

SHOOTER13 · Sep 27, 2012

Chipmunk Control

Then there's the 'munk herd...

SHOOTER13 · Sep 27, 2012

Upcoming PA Hunting Season

Here in Pennsylvania...coming up:

SQUIRRELS...Red, Gray, Black and Fox (combined) Oct. 13-Nov. 24; Dec. 10-24 and Dec. 26-Feb. 23 (6 daily, 12 possession).

RUFFED GROUSE: Oct. 13–Nov. 24, Dec. 10-24 and Dec. 26-Jan. 26 (2 daily, 4 possession).

RABBIT (Cottontail): Oct. 20-Nov. 24, Dec. 10-24 and Dec. 26-Feb. 23 (4 daily, 8 possession).

PHEASANT (Male and female): Oct. 20-Nov. 24, Dec. 10-24 and Dec. 26-Feb. 2 (2 daily, 4 in possession).

BOBWHITE QUAIL: Oct. 20-Nov. 24 (4 daily, 8 possession).

WILD TURKEY (Male or Female): Oct. 27-Nov. 16 and Nov. 22-24

BLACK BEAR (Statewide): Nov. 17, and Nov. 19-21. Only 1 bear may be taken during the license year.

DEER (Antlered and Antlerless): Nov. 26-Dec. 8

DEER ( Antlerless ): Dec. 26-Jan. 26

SHOOTER13 · Sep 27, 2012

Here's the break action pellet rifle I used to inflict damage on the varmints around my homestead...

http://www.gamowhisper.com/

Shooter · Sep 27, 2012

Is there actually a squirrel season? I thought they were rodents and not subject to seasons.

I hunt squirrel as well when I can. My backyard is oddly absent of them.

BT380 · Sep 28, 2012

Getting ready to hunt a few pigs this weekend. Open season here on them. I just love the smell of fresh BACON in the morning. Had bait out all week so it should be a good weekend for them.

Also getting ready for bow season for deer, starts Oct. 15 to January 31st. Gun season starts November 17th to January 31st. We only get to kill 3 bucks but we can kill a doe a day the entire season.

BersaOwner · Sep 28, 2012

BT380 said:
Getting ready to hunt a few pigs this weekend. Open season here on them. I just love the smell of fresh BACON in the morning. Had bait out all week so it should be a good weekend for them.

Also getting ready for bow season for deer, starts Oct. 15 to January 31st. Gun season starts November 17th to January 31st. We only get to kill 3 bucks but we can kill a doe a day the entire season.

So much for the BACON SHORTAGE that everyone is talking about.

A DOE A DAY...........sounds like hunter heaven!

Shooter · Sep 28, 2012

Pig hunting has exploded a couple of hours south of me.

I have family members who have not bought pork now in a couple of year due to it. Of course they have to stay up late and hunt the things to keep them from tearing up their property but still they get wild pork so it seems like it works out to me.

SHOOTER13 · Sep 28, 2012

I take it you're in Texas, right Austin !?

Next to Florida...that's hog heaven !!

Shooter · Sep 30, 2012

I am in Texas. The hogs down here are tearing up the landscape so every one has the ability to hunt.

I may take my family up on the offer to go hunting once my son gets a little older.

hobbles · Sep 30, 2012

Mostly deer, , oties and a few jack-o-lopes.

SHOOTER13 · Sep 30, 2012

Just finished my mornin' hunt...

BT380 · Oct 1, 2012

hobbles said:
Mostly deer, , oties and a few jack-o-lopes.

Best be careful hobbles, them there jack o lopes are sneaky little buggers. Especially the horny ones.

hobbles · Oct 1, 2012

There gettin real rare also, don't see many any more. I hear there are actually some folks that have never seen em

Shooter · Oct 1, 2012

SHOOTER13 said:
Just finished my mornin' hunt...

How many squirrels a week are you eating?

BT380 said:
Best be careful hobbles, them there jack o lopes are sneaky little buggers. Especially the horny ones.

I also thin you have to wait till jack-o-lope season.

SHOOTER13 · Oct 1, 2012

Sorry...don't eat the tree rats !

They are a real nuisance here in PA...tearing up the wood eves and facia boards on my home.

And the chipmunks borrow into everything...just like field mice...so, I thin the herd almost every day.

hobbles · Oct 1, 2012

I think the jack-o-lope's were put on the endangered species list a few years ago, after I got mine of course

Shooter · Oct 2, 2012

SHOOTER13 said:
Sorry...don't eat the tree rats !

They are a real nuisance here in PA...tearing up the wood eves and facia boards on my home.

And the chipmunks borrow into everything...just like field mice...so, I thin the herd almost every day.

Have you ever eaten them?

I understand they are a nuisance but they are also some fine eating.

hobbles said:
I think the jack-o-lope's were put on the endangered species list a few years ago, after I got mine of course

Lucky you. I've been hunting them for decades and still have not bagged one.

BersaOwner · Oct 2, 2012

Austin said:
I am in Texas. The hogs down here are tearing up the landscape so every one has the ability to hunt.

I may take my family up on the offer to go hunting once my son gets a little older.

Thank goodness we don't have them up here YET!
But I have been told they are fun to shoot, & I love bacon, I may need to take a vacation to Texas.

As for the squirrels a local outdoors TV show had a recipe they did on the show. I tried it & it turned out fairly good, so here is that clip from the show.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTnrK60YCA[/ame]

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