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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Oh Mah on September 27, 2018, 10:10:01 AM

Title: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: Oh Mah on September 27, 2018, 10:10:01 AM: If a squirrel does not match the description used by the W.D.F.W as the squirrels classified does that make it unclassified?
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: lokidog on September 27, 2018, 10:35:16 AM: It is not determined by "looks" if they are eastern/western, it is by location. Don't hunt in, or near, the locations listed by WDFW and you will not have a problem. Well, you shouldn't anyways, though there seem to be a lot of uneducated wardens in the state.
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on September 27, 2018, 12:06:48 PM: What description are you looking at? You can shoot California ground squirrels, eastern gray squirrels and fox squirrels statewide anywhere it is legal to do so, as long as you have any Washington hunting license. In western gray squirrel areas be sure of your species ID!
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: Oh Mah on September 27, 2018, 02:14:31 PM: these. http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/gray_squirrel/

Reason i ask is because there are a ton of squirrels out that do not match any of these listed squirrels in WA. like for instance pure black.
and many other variations that don't match that of the restricted squirrels.
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on September 27, 2018, 02:38:36 PM: I haven't seen any black squirrels in Washington, I was in Oklahoma last week and saw black phase fox squirrels and the eastern gray also has black phases in some geographic locations. Melanism is possible in any species, but those are the ones I know. If it's a tree squirrel over 12" nose to tail, and not in a western gray area, I'd feel pretty comfortable shooting it.
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: Oh Mah on September 27, 2018, 02:46:51 PM: Quote from: lokidog on September 27, 2018, 10:35:16 AM
It is not determined by "looks" if they are eastern/western, it is by location. Don't hunt in, or near, the locations listed by WDFW and you will not have a problem. Well, you shouldn't anyways, though there seem to be a lot of uneducated wardens in the state.
according to what i read in the link above it does go by the description of the squirrel in these areas.That's why i'm asking the question. :tup:
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on October 26, 2018, 11:23:39 AM: This might help.
Doug

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/learn-trick-mountain-men-used-hunt-squirrels-video/
Title: Re: Hunting Squirrel
Post by: Gobble Doc on November 06, 2018, 09:30:48 PM: Doug is protected

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