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Post by biggriz on Mar 29, 2013 15:02:52 GMT -5
What does everyone think of the new proposed squirrel season beginning in September? I really like it. Used to hunt lots of squirrel until I got into archery hunting. Now I hunt deer until I fill my buck tag. Also hunt some early ML and when fall turkey somes in that's it for me. Kinda makes squirrel hunting obsolete for me unless I get things done quickly. Couple weeks of squirrel only being in will give me a chance to hunt just them. May not be real easy to hunt them with all the vegetation still on, but I've got a few spots loaded with fox squirrels and black squirrels that I'm looking forward to trying out.
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Post by Dutch on Mar 29, 2013 15:17:31 GMT -5
I don't hunt squirrels, but can really see the advantage to this season, especially for dads with kids.
Very happy Commissioner Martone got this thru for hunters.
Well, it has a final vote in April, but I hope it goes thru.
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Post by biggriz on Mar 29, 2013 15:57:38 GMT -5
Didn't know it had a final vote yet. I thought it was a done deal.
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Post by dougell on Mar 29, 2013 16:16:17 GMT -5
I can't wait.I can take my kid out so he can get some practice finding the little buggers in his scope.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2013 16:42:24 GMT -5
A season with the leaves still on will be better than many here think. The squirrels are much more active under a canopy vs a leafless one. I think it has a lot to do with the red tail hawks scaring them when the leaves fall. I have experienced how spooky they get when the leaves are down.
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Post by Dutch on Mar 29, 2013 16:51:05 GMT -5
Didn't know it had a final vote yet. I thought it was a done deal. Seasons and bag limits are proposed in january, followed by a final vote at the April meeting. That said, most proposals go thru. |
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Post by zimmerstutzen on Apr 4, 2013 11:40:11 GMT -5
Squirrel is about the only small game left around here. Rabbits are few and far,,,, and a road kill ring neck pheasant was the talk of the neighborhood last week. First I had seen since December 2011.
I am glad to have the extra time for squirrel.
I always wondered why the squirrel season was so short years ago. Never seemed like hunters ever made a dent in the population. Read somewhere that some states have a six month season for squirrel.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2013 12:00:09 GMT -5
In which of these proposed seasons am I permitted to use my .416 rem mag?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2013 12:01:48 GMT -5
In which of these proposed seasons am I permitted to use my .416 rem mag? Pretty sure only for chipmunks, they're pretty thick skin.  |
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Post by Muab Dib on Apr 12, 2013 13:35:28 GMT -5
In which of these proposed seasons am I permitted to use my .416 rem mag? Pretty sure only for chipmunks, they're pretty thick skin. Solids are recommended in case of a charge.... Muab |
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Post by Dutch on Apr 15, 2013 13:43:40 GMT -5
This season has been voted DOWN by commissioners that used the excuse of shooting lactating females, meanwhile, allowing Red Tag doe killing while fawns are extremely young, or they allow the shooting of groundhogs year round, with pups in dens.
Very sad......
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2013 13:51:39 GMT -5
That sucks. Like you said you can shoot groundhogs year round but not a tree rat.
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Post by galthatfishes on Jan 31, 2014 16:03:06 GMT -5
Bringing this back up.. I think it would be AWESOME for kids.
Heard a commissioner say SAFETY was an issue. Really? So you feel MORE safe with a mentored youth or junior hunter whacking squirrels with NO experience during the archery season? What a joke. If its safe with other hunters in the woods, it can only be safer without them.
Why not open the season three weeks earlier and let these kids get some experience, and let the adults have a good time too?
Also hear another commissioner whine that squirrels might still be lactating. Yet another joke. So are deer, bear, and a host of other species that we hunt, but we don't stop people from killing them. The squirrels don't have any issues in any other state where there is an early season.
Quit making excuses and allow people the opportunity to hunt if it won't harm the resource.
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Post by bawanajim on Jan 31, 2014 20:35:43 GMT -5
With eight men voting on each proposal how is it that some thing like "lactating females" can be used as a valid point?
Is ignorance so rampant that even common sense is absent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 21:06:40 GMT -5
With eight men voting on each proposal how is it that some thing like "lactating females" can be used as a valid point? Is in ignorance so rampant that even common sense is absent. Yet it's ok to kill a groundhog or coyote that is lactating and starving the young one's to death? Your right common sense just isn't there. banghead |
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Post by Dutch on Jan 31, 2014 21:34:54 GMT -5
With eight men voting on each proposal how is it that some thing like "lactating females" can be used as a valid point? Is ignorance so rampant that even common sense is absent. This proposal was not about anything more than a vendetta towards a Commissioner that spoke out about the Wild Pheasant Recovery Areas and how one or 2 other Commissioners wanted to smack him down....... and hunters, in the end. The Commissioner who loves the WPRA's is a very thin skinned fella and has been threatening people inside the agency since he became a commissioner. Must think he's some sort of God? |
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Post by bawanajim on Jan 31, 2014 21:54:16 GMT -5
Sounds like a bunch of nancys that need replaced.
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Post by Dutch on Feb 1, 2014 5:50:17 GMT -5
Sounds like a bunch of nancys that need replaced. For once, you made a post I agree with. A Commissioner SHOULD work for hunters and hunting, and not allow petty politics of the position go to his head. How an early squirrel season was gonna effect anyone in a negative way is hard to imagine. |
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