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2024- 25 Squirrel hunting competition
- Thread starter JARHEAD
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Wiley E Coyote
Active Member
Could have two divisions. Rodent control ( shot over bait). And a old school squirrel hunting class. Which not sure how many guys on this site do that other than Jamie. I'm not implying anything is wrong with controlling them over bait. It's needed I agree. Just saying old school squirrel hunting is pretty cool. I know I'm old ,back when my dad started me hunting opening of squirrel season was a big deal I'm Ohio before we had deer. Them little bastards were pretty tough back in the day when everyone was wanting to eat them 
Wiley E Coyote
Active Member
How far from a bait pile do you have to be? That is going to be the hard part these days with private land. We killed a bunch this year around the house too. That's 300 yards from the pile.
Wiley E Coyote
Active Member
Like I said before a dead skerrel is a dead skerrel in my opinion. I don't care if you're feeding it by hand and kill it with a screwdriver!
Wiley E Coyote
Active Member
Cage match?Id like to watch that screwdriver match!
Surely, we all understand the difference between plinking squirrels literally standing on a pile of corn from a full concealment blind with a rifle on a rest and actually hunting squirrels like men, don't we? If anyone is confused about it, this might be a good time to iron that out.
I completely get it. I just don't like the divide that seems to happen. Like throwing in "like men". We are not superior to eachother. Hunters need to throw the chest thumping to the side.
Now, if we want to have a public land and private land competition....im all in on that. But this superior BS about being real men, nope, I just won't play in the future. I will not support that divide.
Now, if we want to have a public land and private land competition....im all in on that. But this superior BS about being real men, nope, I just won't play in the future. I will not support that divide.
Big_Holla
Senior Member
I was just trying to have a little fun with Giles, but he must not have gotten his snack this morning, and since I'm one of only two people on this forum that hunts squirrels with dogs (the other is not participating in this thread) and you are obviously calling me out, I would be quick to point out that I respectfully declined to participate in this contest because I know it is completely unfair to everyone who is not hunting with dogs and I'm not really a fan of hunting contests of any kind in the first place. It does, in fact, matter how we kill things at least as much as why, or at least it damn well ought to no matter what we are killing.
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Cool. I agree that it matters how you kill things with the determining factor being is it legal and ethical. And I’ll add that as long as what you’re harvesting is not going to waste and your local (game of choice) population can support it. If it is, have a ball and fire at will. The whole point is to have fun. We can agree to disagree on method.