How many adults hunted and shot squirrels when they were young?

[badbass1]

I was wondering how many of you adults, hunted and shot squirrels when you were teenagers? i need as many of you as i can get. My aunts think its wrong and that I am a jeffy Dahmer. they dont think anyone else did it. Help me men!

[Eric Wettschreck]

We ate a lot of em, still do.

[McGurk]

I did! I did!

No serialistic tendencies; a few surreallistic.

[lunker651]

I did, that's how I got introduce into hunting. I started at around 8-9 years old and has been hunting since.

[Valv]

We also cook them in stew, it's just like possum....delicious.

Sometimes we had them rosted on fire, if you add a lot or rosemary they taste awesome....

BTW who's jeffy Dahmer ?

[Cooter]

A bud of mine and I killed a decent amount with sling shots and then when we upgraded to air rifles it was pure murder! This all was long before we were 16. I still like to hunt them and will be doing just that this Sat.

[bbqhead]

i did! too bad we can kill

the little rats here in the cities..

bbqhead

[delmuts]

i did and still do! i got one this afternoon!

[eyepatrol]

Absolutely! Ate a few of them too. I sort of hate to admit it, but when I was a young lad, I pretty much shot anything that moved (not everything, but almost). Rabbits are another yummy meal.

Still, with all the things I shot during those years, I haven't turned into a Jeff Dahmer.

[irvingdog]

Whacked 'em, stacked 'em, ate 'em all winter long.

The squirrel market is a little "competitive" nowadays, but you can still find them on private land (ironic, isn't it?).

[paintbrush]

My dad taught me proper gun handling by hunting squirrels when I was a kid some 40 years back. Still hunt them some.

[Mr.Seaguar]

I still hunt squirrels. Tasty. Dahmer got his start with cats I think.

[BLACKJACK]

I shot lots of them with my .22 as a teenager. And we also ate them, excellent eating if done right!! Especially if they're young ones!

[New Yankee]

Yep - .410 bolt action 3" six shot. Don't know who was more excited, me or dad those mornings uh...35 years ago(?)...

[bigdog]

My father introduced me to hunting on squirrels. At first I carried an unloaded single shot and would load when we were going to shoot. I learned to walk quietly, watch for movement and to sit still and have patience. It was an excellent opportunity for many lessons.

[UdeLakeTom]

A family of 5 in the car could bring home quite a few squirrels and rabbits to fill the refridge. Gas was cheap and .22 shells were also, but Dad really got mad if you missed a shot, wasting the shells. This was in the early '50s and you didn't have to go far down old 52 to get your limit. Had a friend in the Navy from Kentucky who got some squirrel jerky mailed to him from home. He wouldn't let any of the rest of us touch it, it was a delicacy to him.

[Zzapp]

I gotta go along with the crowd. A single-shot bolt-action .22 and some quiet time in the woods with an uncle taught me a lot about patience and shot placement! Mom would cook them up with some BBQ sauce, but she'd never eat any.

TJ

[Double D]

I grew up on a farm and back then we had corn in a wire crib. We had standing orders to shoot any squirrel, and that was our winter entertainment. I look forward as next fall my son will be old enough to take along on a few little hunting trips, and squirrels are a great place to start.

I think Jeffrey Dahmer ate people, not squirrels, anyhow.

DD

[bellyup]

Up north on the Range there's few grey squirrels, mostly the tiny red squirrels so we were into rabbits. My first rabbit came from a Daisy BB gun. My friends and I would case up our BB guns and walk the tracks out of town. Not proud of it but we may have been little Jeff Dahlmers because we shot at anything that moved. Possibly do to lack of parental guidence. We didn't evolve to eat people! I'm teaching my son the proper ethics and safety that should go with hunting.

[mwal]

Still shoot a few squirrels and rabbits every year. Going after snowshoes this weekend.

Mwal

[Rost]

I hunted rabbits and squirls all the time when I was a kid.

[Mr Special]

I still hunt small game every chance I can get. Especially now during the late season, when you have the whole woods to yourself. I persnally think, most people have forgotten just how much darn fun it is, and how good they taste.

Which reminds me I'm free this weekend, humm??????

[luckey]

I spent many a Sunday hunting squirrels while growing up int the 60's. Usually two of us would go so when we spotted a squirrl in a tree one guy walked to the other side and bang, dead squirrel when he popped around the limb.

[Bassboy1645]

I SLAYED THE SQUIRLLS.......as a younger kid 10-14 yrs old that was all we hunted...i learned all the basics of patience and woodsmanship while hunting in the oak flats of central mn. i dont hunt the furry rats anymore but grouse and rabbits give me fits when i carry my gun

[harvey lee]

I hunted squirrels every day of the weekend when I was a young-in. Got me started hunting and I have never quit. Not bad to eat either.

[eyepatrol]

Absolutely! When I got my first Daisy BB gun at the age of 9, I was out in the woods near our house almost every day whether it be after school, on the weekends, or all throughout the day during the summer. Many a night I got in trouble for coming home late.

But that's what developed me into the hunter I am today (and helped me win some bb gun shooting contests). My grandpa never hunted after WWII, so my dad only got into hunting a little bit with his friends. And when my parents gave me my bb gun, I took it a big step further and hunting became a passion. Some day, I hope to pass on the same passions I have to my son (and daughter if she's interested).

This much I think I can safely say....had my folks not built a house on the small roughfish lake near a woods like they had, I probably would not be here enjoying this site and the outdoors as I do today.

[Dotch]

I grew up a farm boy in and around the rivers and streams of SE MN in the 60's and early 70's. If we weren't working on the farm on weekends, we were allowed to go squirrel hunting. Used Dad's single shot bolt action Remington .22 until my brother got old enough to hunt. Then I had to use Dad's bolt action single shot Winchester .410 with 2 1/2" shells, usually 4's or 6's, whatever we had. Liked both but as time wore on, actually preferred hunting with the shotgun. Could make shots when the squirrels were running along those horizontal branches on some of those old majestic oaks that graced the woods and river bottoms we'd hunt. Primarily fox squirrels but there were a few grays mixed in. Clean 'em and Mom would fry up a feast. Now I marinate and grill them. Also tasty!

Still get out once in awhile but haven't made it this year. Live in SC MN now and competition for land is tougher. With the popularity of bowhunting, there are more hunters crowded onto fewer wooded acres. Our off-site pasture is near a small woods that my landlord lets me hunt when I ask. Have nicer toys now, a Marlin semi-auto .22 with a scope and an 870 .410. It's not about how many I shoot anymore, it's about how many phone calls I avoided while enjoying the freedom, the fresh air and the smell of dry, crisp leaves on a late autumn afternoon.

[DTro]

I gotta admit that I also plugged a whole lot of them when I was 12-17.

Started with BB, then single .22 then lever action .22, then .410

Also it wasn't just squrrels, lot of barn swallows, chickadees and "lumberjacks".

I'm not proud of it, but I'm also not a Dahmer.

It's amazing how the older you get the more you appreciate life.

[ole matty]

i kill them when they r about to do some damage on bird feede/houser.. dont like them but they taste good!

[Log Hopper]

I not only hunted them, but I also cleaned, cooked and ate them. I learned a lot during those early hunting years with a lot of good memories.