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My new hunting partner
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 Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 8:27 pm
This I hope will be the perfect compliment to my Ithaca shotguns and marlin rifles! I go get her tomorrow! She's a treeing feist, cute as a button, and from what I hear meaner 'n a snake!
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 11:08 pm
Too bad you don't live close to me, I know where there are LOTS of squirrels. The old guy I hunt with took 30 last season. I have scouted out a bunch of places that are just thick with them.
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 11:37 pm
We're plum eat up with squirrels, but I haven't hunted tem in a long time, and never with a dog. I'm looking forward to it!
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Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 7:15 pm
You'll enjoy her as much as your favorite '37! And she'll make sure you get out and hunt a lot more! There's a very special bond between man and dog as hunting partners. Spoil her as much as you can!
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Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:20 pm
a squirrel dog?
hmm ,I've been hunting since the mid 70s and I have to admit I never seen a dog used in that way. how does it work? i'm guessing treeing a squirrel is a redundant though... so they find them in trees? do they climb??hehe i'm stuck waiting a few more weeks till I get to enjoy the thrill of puppyhood |
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:33 am
I went squirrel once with a fellow who had a couple of squirrel dogs. I found the experience to be a lot of fun and fast paced. Windy days are best because the squirrels spend most of their time on the ground then making it easy for the dogs to pick up there sent and tree them. Once the squirrel is treed the dog keeps the squirrel moving around in the tree making it easier to see them.
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:57 pm
Thanks guys. 1977 that sounds like fun, I can't wait.
Twistedoak, here in the southeast, most any dog that'll tree is used as a squirrel dog. But the two most prevalent specialists are the cur strains (mountain curr, etc...) and the feist (mountain, treeing, etc...). The curs are usually more cold nosed like a hound and will give mouth in the trail. The feists will trail some, but only bark on tree and hunt by sight, sound, and smell. |
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:11 pm
The old guy I hunt with has a couple of curs. It is a hoot hunting with squirrel dogs. They go blasting off into the woods and pretty soon you hear them have one treed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:06 pm
Squirrel hunting is a must on my property ...they destroy everything !!
All kills pictured below were taken in my backyard with a GAMO WHISPER break action springer pellet gun chambered in .177...one shot. one kill !! ( no dogs )       
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:10 pm
Took a few chipmunks too...now that's a hard shot !!
    
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:18 pm
And here's my old hunting pardner...she would walk over after the shot and sniff at the body while waiting for me to retrieve it. She passed not too long ago after spending many a season afield with me...
 R.I.P. Brook |
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:26 pm
Shooter, I'm sorry to hear about Brook.
Tell me more though about that pellet gun. I'm interested in one myself. What kind of range can you get with one and still have decent accuracy and reliable kills? Something like that would be just the ticket for thinning out the squirrel herds in my brother's yard. |
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:56 am
She looked like a find ol girl, shooter. Sorry you had to lose her. That's the worst thing about having a dog, having to let go of them in what seems liker a blink of an eye. --Jim
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:59 am
That's a great looking Pup Col. You are going to have a ball, I swear dog hunting is the best of all. Even when you don't get anything, there is still all kinds of action. I have a gamo whisper, too Col. Iron sights are dead on to 100 feet And it is deadly. the silencer on the end makes it nice and quiet, otherwise they are almost as loud as a .22. I'd get it again. They come with a scope and it isn't a half bad one, but I just stick with the sights. --Jim
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