Most common range and shooting positions for blacktail

[Clarktar]

Western Washington, and fair enough. I guess I’ll just keep it to distances I think I could shoot well at under pressure. Probably 50 to 300ish for now.

25-100 yards still hunting river bottoms. Everytime it's been standing offhand

 

[limpet]

Seriously my GF and I have gone through 1000rds of .22 one morning on an alfalfa field. Nothing has helped my shooting more.

I wish we had ag field to shoot in. We hunt squirrels in the same area we deer hunt steep ground with oaks and glades. It’s good practice of using terrain. After a few of their buddies get taken out they wise up pretty quick.

 

[Steve300xcw]

alfalfa fields are a good time an all. But I honestly prefer this kinda squirrel shooting.

 

[BlacktailTracker]

alfalfa fields are a good time an all. But I honestly prefer this kinda squirrel shooting.

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Looks like northern California.

 

[limpet]

Aaaanyways I think you get the point ground squirrel hunting makes great practice and being a well rounded shooter that is comfortable offhand is a big advantage in the blacktail woods. Sorry to send everyone squirreling out.

 

[SaltyAquaholic]

Yea seems like a great way to get some practice in. Also, the eastern gray squirrels are invasive are they not? I don't think there’d be much trouble in removing some of them from the state. Western grays I’ll be careful for, since from what I understand they’re struggling a bit

 

[Steve300xcw]

Grey squirrels? Wtf dude?

Diggers........

 

[BlacktailTracker]

Yea seems like a great way to get some practice in. Also, the eastern gray squirrels are invasive are they not? I don't think there’d be much trouble in removing some of them from the state. Western grays I’ll be careful for, since from what I understand they’re struggling a bit

Western Grays are a beautiful squirrel.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Justa rat in a pretty coat

 

[SaltyAquaholic]

Western Grays are a beautiful squirrel.

I’m a bit partial to the fox squirrels I grew up with in Florida.

 

[AKM]

In AK on Kodiak…
South end of the island doesn’t have trees. Just brush of varying thickness. Otherwise open tundra. Was out for bear using a 375 HH using 300gr AFrames. Shot sitting on a tussock about 75yds. Prone 253 yds. Couple others in between. Could have killed one at arm’s reach. It didn’t seem fair. Some of those critters were a cheeseburger short of a happy meal.

 

[Taudisio]

Grey squirrels? Wtf dude?

Diggers........

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Walking around and off-hand shooting ground squirrels is how I grew up. Less targets in the mountains, but I makes spotting them just as difficult.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Walking around and off-hand shooting ground squirrels is how I grew up. Less targets in the mountains, but I makes spotting them just as difficult.

Beginning of rifle season I have to keep reminding myself that I'm deer hunting..

 

[Terrapin]

Just some clarification for everyone reading along… when we talk about shooting squirrels, we aren’t talking about killing tree squirrels. We are talking about ground squirrels. Also known as gophers, whistle pigs, diggers, prairie dogs (incorrectly in Oregon & Idaho), and a dozen different names. These are a destructive, cannibalistic, plague carrying varmints that tears up ag land & are shot and poisoned by the millions every year. Not some cute little tree dweller that chirps & eats nuts.


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[Taudisio]

Just some clarification for everyone reading along… when we talk about shooting squirrels, we aren’t talking about killing tree squirrels. We are talking about ground squirrels. Also known as gophers, whistle pigs, diggers, prairie dogs (incorrectly in Oregon & Idaho), and a dozen different names. These are a destructive, cannibalistic, plague carrying varmints that tears up ag land & are shot and poisoned by the millions every year. Not some cute little tree dweller that chirps & eats nuts.


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Yes, gray squirrels are tree squirrels and there is a season and bag limit for them. Ground squirrels aka California ground squirrels around here (beldings ground squirrel aka sage rats out east) are open to all with a hunting license around here in OR. I believe the same goes for CA, but you have to use non-lead.

Small game hunting in Oregon | Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Small game species provide a variety of hunting experiences throughout the state and are an excellent way to introduce new hunters to hunting. Only the appropriate hunting license is necessary to hunt small game (no tags or permits). There are three major categories of small game in Oregon...

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[Steve300xcw]

We should probly remind people to buy a deer tag before they go deer hunting as well.

 

[SaltyAquaholic]

Just some clarification for everyone reading along… when we talk about shooting squirrels, we aren’t talking about killing tree squirrels. We are talking about ground squirrels. Also known as gophers, whistle pigs, diggers, prairie dogs (incorrectly in Oregon & Idaho), and a dozen different names. These are a destructive, cannibalistic, plague carrying varmints that tears up ag land & are shot and poisoned by the millions every year. Not some cute little tree dweller that chirps & eats nuts.


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Yeah I didn’t hear them called squirrels at all in South Dakota. And Florida has gophers but they’re pretty few and far between. So when you guys were talking about squirrel hunting I’d figured you were talking about tree squirrels.

 

[SaltyAquaholic]

Just some clarification for everyone reading along… when we talk about shooting squirrels, we aren’t talking about killing tree squirrels. We are talking about ground squirrels. Also known as gophers, whistle pigs, diggers, prairie dogs (incorrectly in Oregon & Idaho), and a dozen different names. These are a destructive, cannibalistic, plague carrying varmints that tears up ag land & are shot and poisoned by the millions every year. Not some cute little tree dweller that chirps & eats nuts.


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You guys have both gophers and ground squirrels. South Dakota called their prairie dogs whistle pigs but you guys don’t have any prairie dogs. What’s the species name, not common name of the squirrels you’re talking about?

 

[Taudisio]

Read my post above and go to the second link. It shows you the info you are seeking