The start of a new week
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:53 pm
Well I started another week in the woods today. I am going to go every chance I get unless having back pain or shoulder pain I can't stand. The covid cases are up here right now so I am going from home to the woods and back without getting around any crowded places. I am having a good time so far and I was thinking of all the years that I felt I had to get a turkey or a deer and now I don't care if I do or I don't. I am just enjoying the time spent in the woods away from people and getting to see deer and other animals along with the squirrels I am there to hunt. My number one game animal is and has always been squirrels. I remember my Dad getting us ready when we were very young to hunt squirrels and learning to shoot well with 22's by keeping the chipmunk population in check. No they have outlawed shooting those wire chewing pain in the butt pests. That was how we learned to shoot accurate for our squirrel hunting.
Well today I went out with the 222 again. It was a little slow at first but then the squirrel activity picked up and I got shots at 5 and got four. The funniest thing today was one that was around 125 yds digging in a grassy spot at the bottom of an oak tree. I put the cross hairs in the eye area and when the shot went off I seen the dirt fly right over his head and he jumped straight in the air about a foot off the ground and I seen him trying to run and he hadn't even hit the ground yet. I laughed as ran across the wood lot back to a den tree. I thought about waiting for him a while but I decided he won today but maybe I will win tomorrow.
My friend called this evening and told me to come get half of the squirrel gravy he made from all the ones I gave him from last weeks hunts. He said he never made gravy with so many squirrels in it. He said there was 17 in the container I gave him. I just had to bring it home and have the wife heat some up. I was in the bathroom and she hollered to me "Wait until you taste this." We both had some for supper over toast as we didn't have biscuits here and didn't want to go to get any. I don't care for biscuits any way but she likes them. The pan was so full we will have to freeze quite a bit for later.
Life is good and so is the weather. Hit 81* today. I love it. I would like to see it stay like this until New Years Day and then really get nice.
Well today I went out with the 222 again. It was a little slow at first but then the squirrel activity picked up and I got shots at 5 and got four. The funniest thing today was one that was around 125 yds digging in a grassy spot at the bottom of an oak tree. I put the cross hairs in the eye area and when the shot went off I seen the dirt fly right over his head and he jumped straight in the air about a foot off the ground and I seen him trying to run and he hadn't even hit the ground yet. I laughed as ran across the wood lot back to a den tree. I thought about waiting for him a while but I decided he won today but maybe I will win tomorrow.
My friend called this evening and told me to come get half of the squirrel gravy he made from all the ones I gave him from last weeks hunts. He said he never made gravy with so many squirrels in it. He said there was 17 in the container I gave him. I just had to bring it home and have the wife heat some up. I was in the bathroom and she hollered to me "Wait until you taste this." We both had some for supper over toast as we didn't have biscuits here and didn't want to go to get any. I don't care for biscuits any way but she likes them. The pan was so full we will have to freeze quite a bit for later.
Life is good and so is the weather. Hit 81* today. I love it. I would like to see it stay like this until New Years Day and then really get nice.