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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: pacyew on June 03, 2007, 11:11:44 PM

Title: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: pacyew on June 03, 2007, 11:11:44 PM: Just back from a couple days in the Enterprise/Joseph area. The grass was a little tall, but it made a hunt out of it. 8)

Beautiful country!

My buddy Tom and I did most of our shooting with a Cooper 22 Hornet and Ruger 77/22 Mag, but I had one great morning with my old 62A.
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: rackattack on June 04, 2007, 06:11:58 AM: That looks fun!!! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: boneaddict on June 04, 2007, 06:14:46 AM: That looks like fun. I got a few shots in this weekend off my back porch. Little rodents sure do love a new garden coming in. My neighbor had a couple guys working his field this weekend so maybe there will be less of them. GOOD SHOOTIN'
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: Ray on June 04, 2007, 09:22:09 AM: Looks great! That little bugger on the top photo looks like a cannibal. Was any of that going on?
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: pacyew on June 04, 2007, 04:21:29 PM: There was one instance of a pair of them sitting nearly side by side. I hit the one on the right with my hornet, leaving little recognizable as a squirrel. Almost immediately his buddy was over him doing something? ?? Looked like maybe dining going on to me.:o That is, until I had a good bead on him.
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: boneaddict on June 04, 2007, 07:06:10 PM: Last year I shot one and then one ran up and started eating him. I shot him and within seconds another came up and started humping him, so I shot him. Weird little snappers.
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: Ray on June 04, 2007, 09:02:39 PM: If I can think of a rodent term for the letter H then I could rework C.H.U.D. and resurrect an old acronym :D
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: pacyew on June 04, 2007, 09:25:31 PM: Cannibalistic Hamsteroid Underground Dwellers? :o
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: boneaddict on June 05, 2007, 06:19:49 AM: :chuckle: That works!
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: Fletch on June 05, 2007, 04:24:56 PM: Great fun...I spent a day with my uncle many moons ago shooting squirrels around enterprise. I have spent many of days and hundreds of .22 shells shooting them in the okanagan when I was a youngster...sure improves the shooting skills.
Title: Re: Oregon Ground Squirrels
Post by: Ray on June 05, 2007, 06:38:13 PM: pacyew,

we need to go after some coyotes closer to home.