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<blockquote data-quote="FAL Shot" data-source="post: 576992" data-attributes="member: 27328"><p>I don't care much for squirrel hunting. My dog is the squirrel killer. He usually kills them in the city park where you aren't supposed to kill squirrels, so the squirrels think they are safe. He is said to be descended from dogs owned by members of the James-Younger Gang, so he doesn't care for city laws. But he prefers to take down young mule deer.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, my youngest brother was the squirrel hunter in the family. I mainly went after game birds, as that is what I preferred to eat. He sold squirrel tails to Mepps, the fishing lure company, so if you fished Mepps lures, you might have your lure trimmed in the squirrel tail that he shot. </p><p> </p><p>Anyway, he had two different squirrel dogs. The first one was a purebred English Pointer bitch. That dog was pure death on squirrels, but deathly afraid of water. She wouldn't cross a stream for anything. The second dog was a Border Terrier/Airedale Terrier mix. That dog wasn't afraid of anything. He would dive off a cliff into the water without a second thought. He killed a rattlesnake when he was a little pup. Pure death on all vermin.</p><p> </p><p>He used two rifles. The main one was a Marlin .22LR semi-auto. It was cheap, but it was accurate. The other was a Crosman multi-pump air rifle. It was also cheap, but accurate.</p><p> </p><p>He had two main ways of hunting. The first way was with the dog on land. The dog would tree a squirrel and he would get down against a tree and get ready for a shot as the dog caused the squirrel to move around the tree to where he had a clear shot. The English Pointer especially had keen eyes and would spot squirrels long before he could. That dog died and he hunted a while by himself, usually propped up against a tree where squirrel activity was high. Then the other dog showed up, and he started hunting in a canoe as he drifted quietly down Horsehead Creek. When he saw a squirrel, he would shoot it from the canoe and the Border/Airedale Terrier mixed breed would jump in the water and go retrieve the squirrel. That dog got redneck run over and killed eventually, and since he and the dog had mostly wiped out the Horsehead Creek squirrel population, he quit hunting squirrels.</p><p> </p><p>I killed a rabbit in the backyard a few months back, but I can't remember when I last killed a squirrel. I remember killing a squirrel in 1977 as my dog scared it from tree to tree, and I shot it with a Ruger .22LR pistol, but not sure if it was the last one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FAL Shot, post: 576992, member: 27328"] I don't care much for squirrel hunting. My dog is the squirrel killer. He usually kills them in the city park where you aren't supposed to kill squirrels, so the squirrels think they are safe. He is said to be descended from dogs owned by members of the James-Younger Gang, so he doesn't care for city laws. But he prefers to take down young mule deer. Anyway, my youngest brother was the squirrel hunter in the family. I mainly went after game birds, as that is what I preferred to eat. He sold squirrel tails to Mepps, the fishing lure company, so if you fished Mepps lures, you might have your lure trimmed in the squirrel tail that he shot. Anyway, he had two different squirrel dogs. The first one was a purebred English Pointer bitch. That dog was pure death on squirrels, but deathly afraid of water. She wouldn't cross a stream for anything. The second dog was a Border Terrier/Airedale Terrier mix. That dog wasn't afraid of anything. He would dive off a cliff into the water without a second thought. He killed a rattlesnake when he was a little pup. Pure death on all vermin. He used two rifles. The main one was a Marlin .22LR semi-auto. It was cheap, but it was accurate. The other was a Crosman multi-pump air rifle. It was also cheap, but accurate. He had two main ways of hunting. The first way was with the dog on land. The dog would tree a squirrel and he would get down against a tree and get ready for a shot as the dog caused the squirrel to move around the tree to where he had a clear shot. The English Pointer especially had keen eyes and would spot squirrels long before he could. That dog died and he hunted a while by himself, usually propped up against a tree where squirrel activity was high. Then the other dog showed up, and he started hunting in a canoe as he drifted quietly down Horsehead Creek. When he saw a squirrel, he would shoot it from the canoe and the Border/Airedale Terrier mixed breed would jump in the water and go retrieve the squirrel. That dog got redneck run over and killed eventually, and since he and the dog had mostly wiped out the Horsehead Creek squirrel population, he quit hunting squirrels. I killed a rabbit in the backyard a few months back, but I can't remember when I last killed a squirrel. I remember killing a squirrel in 1977 as my dog scared it from tree to tree, and I shot it with a Ruger .22LR pistol, but not sure if it was the last one. [/QUOTE]
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