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Joined: Dec 2002
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Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
Joined: Dec 2002
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Have done it for years. Bad thing is if you kill one and it doesn't fall out.
Easier to shoot nests with a .22 because you can ring the edges.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 10,763 Likes: 29
8 point
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Joined: Aug 2006
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I bark the tree with a .22 close to the nest.
Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 139
3 point
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I shake the nests or if there isn't s vine then I shoot the limb beside the nest.
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Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,721
8 point
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Joined: Apr 2009
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I grew up shooting in nest and when I go to Lowndes Co. next weekend squirrel hunting I'm liable to shoot a few more.
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported.We have a right to it,derived from our maker.But if we had not,our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease,their estates,their pleasure and their BLOOD!"
-John Adams (1735-1826)
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Joined: Oct 2015
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3 point
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I've done it, years ago. One evening I watched a fox squirrel trotting from tree to tree, but I couldn't get a shot with my 22. It went into a surprisingly small nest. I shot into the nest and heard the HP hit home on the 1st shot. He flopped around a little and he was dead. Still in the nest. I started shooting into the nest hoping I could knock it out. Nope.
That was probably 30 years ago. I've never so much as seen a fox squirrel while squirrel hunting since that day. Everyone else I hunt with kills them, but I don't even see any. If I was starving maybe I would do it again.
A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 58
spike
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spike
Joined: Nov 2014
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I have done it a few times ,but the last time I did, I didn't feel right about it. I got to thinking about it, and it didnt seem like the right thing to do. It's like I wouldn't want someone shooting in my house just to see if I was at home. So i havn't done it since.
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Joined: Nov 2014
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
Joined: Nov 2014
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,286
8 point
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Joined: Nov 2011
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You can typically see the nest lift after being shot if there's a squirrel in it. Shoot it another time or two and they will fall 0ut. Dang as kids it was always a hoot when a big ole coon was in that nest and we would all start shooting to bring him down. We probably killed 90% of our coons as a kids shooting a nest and surprise it had a coon in it.
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 15,650 Likes: 19
Poppa Jon
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Poppa Jon
Joined: Jan 2003
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Can't say I have'nt.................... This ^
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Joined: Dec 2013
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Can't say I haven't. Ran two fox squirrels out and killed them both.
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