Gray squirrel and them garden eatin rabbits. Shotgun of course because my shooting skills are ???????? not that good.

While I've been out for rabbit and squirrels, I have to say that prairie dogs are my favorite. They test your long range shooting ability and, if you find the right place to go for them, offer nearly an endless day worth of action. I usually bring three, heavy-barreled guns just to rotate out from the incessant barrel heating that comes with trying to clear out a rancher's field.

squirrel and cottontails with a .22

I always loved hunting squirrels with a friend and a good dog or two.

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What's your favorite small game to hunt?

Squirrel and rabbit with a longbow is about as good as it gets when it comes to the fun factor of hunting while roving the great outdoors.

I consider ground hogs, fox and yotes to be varmints and predators, being different than small game.

Best

1st place would be chasing squirrels with dogs. My dog is still young but she might make something. I have friends with fine dogs. Nothing like a day in the woods following behind them with a .22 or a shotgun. Second favorite would be doves with a shotgun.

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I have to say that squirrel with a .22 is one of my favorite hunting scenarios. I scout while I hunt, move at a relaxed pace, and get in some good shooting practice. Plus this all occurs at my favorite time of the year (and temperatures). It is like the hunting season warm up, and I like to eat the little rascals too.

ditto...

Couldn't have said it better...

If one can't relate to this post then he should not be allowed to own a .22 LR....

Damn good post Daniel77

The Squirrel population is VERY MUCH down this season here in parts of Kentucky.

Stalking squirrels with my Clark barreled Ruger 10-22, especially good when they're cutting hickory in early fall. I don't consider prairie dogs or doves as small game. They are varmints and game birds, although I love to hunt them they do not belong in this post.

Whitetails.

I have always loved rabbits. The hunting, and the eating of. In some areas my sxs 12g is the best way to go in others it is my 22LR but more often than not it is my 20VarTarg with low velocity loads in the 2750fps range for shots out to 200yds, or but have areas where full on 3700fps loads are the go.
This is the result of my last outing (the ones that I picked up anyway) I just bring the back legs and the loin but there are fifty or so jointed pieces being salted down over night before being washed, dried and free flow frozen.



Von Gruff.

My first thought was cottontails cause they are so dang tasty, but there is another wabbit nearby called mountian hares. They turn white in the winter, freak out at the first sign of people and haul booty like a tazed antelope usually a couple hundred yards out.

Not easy to kill but its sure fun trying..

Wood chucks, and musk rats, both at long ranges. White rabbits when it's time.

The Western Rockchuck, not even close.

In Idaho you can shoot as far as your rangefinder and rifle/scope will let you. Try half a mile some sunny day in the high mountains.

Rich

Turtles
338 Win Mag/200gr



SSR

The potguts are about gone in all the places I normaly look for them. Rock chucks are both challenging and when you get a couple they are rewarding. The damned things will spread out on a rock and scruntch down to about 2 inches high. You have to be able to see their eyes or see a nose wiggle to tell if they are alive. You can't get close if they've been shot at. Great sport. Usually 200 yards plus. some as far as 500. Like Idaho Sharpshooter said, as far as you want to get. DW

Rabbits, with beagles. I usually use a SXS 20 ga. Lots of fun. I love hunting with dogs.

This should answer the question for me:

Just love squirrel hunting, with my son, using our Marlin 39A .22s.


Mad Dog

Paca!

Just got back from the Squirrel Wars in Cedarville, CA. Shot about 450 rounds but only killed about 20-30 % due to high winds. But we had a BALL!

meow

Who said crat?

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meow

Best served stir fried with broccoli and pea pods and poured over a bed of steamed rice.

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meow

Best served stir fried with broccoli and pea pods and poured over a bed of steamed rice.

Meow mix.

Personally I like my lawn lion sautéed in butter with spring onions. De-glaze the pan with approximately 4 ounces of Ripple white or Pagan pink, depending on the size of said lion pieces.

Serve over a bed of brown and wild rice. Garnish with a sprig of catnip.

Even the old toms come out tender and delicious if you rub them with salt, garlic and olive oil and give them about 5 hours in the smoker.

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Even the old toms come out tender and delicious if you rub them with salt, garlic and olive oil and give them about 5 hours in the smoker.

Do they make a lot of fuss after you slam the door shut?

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Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
Even the old toms come out tender and delicious if you rub them with salt, garlic and olive oil and give them about 5 hours in the smoker.

Have you ever tried a cratkritmousen???

You take one tom, stuff with three krittens that each have a mouse deftly inserted in their innards.

Soak in a brine of 1/2 cup each salt and sugar to one gallon of water until the fur is slippery.

Smoke for 12 hours at a medium heat (130*f), charging with alternate hickory and buffalo chips.

Feeds 4.

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Even the old toms come out tender and delicious if you rub them with salt, garlic and olive oil and give them about 5 hours in the smoker.

Do they make a lot of fuss after you slam the door shut?

By the time you finish your beer they're pretty quiet.

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Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
Even the old toms come out tender and delicious if you rub them with salt, garlic and olive oil and give them about 5 hours in the smoker.

Do they make a lot of fuss after you slam the door shut?

They whine a bit but once you get them wired to the rack it's all down hill.

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Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
Even the old toms come out tender and delicious if you rub them with salt, garlic and olive oil and give them about 5 hours in the smoker.

Do they make a lot of fuss after you slam the door shut?

They whine a bit but once you get them wired to the rack it's all down hill.

You'll need welding gloves for that operation, though.

It's hard to twist the wire wearing welding gloves.

The easiest way is to make 4 kitty bracelets out of wire with about 3 inches of extra wire sticking out. Once you get the bracelets on you slap the wire rack down on the crat and pull the tag wires through and twist them. With practice you can get this done with only a couple of scratches.

Grouse, rabbits, and squirrel.

I love to eat them.

Probably Egyptian Geese, best score to date, 45 birds in just under 3 hours! Actually I prefer small game hunting to any other form.

Rabitts with my Beables chasin them and shooting my T/C 410- and tree Rats with my RWS 45.

Jim

My favorite small game hunt is redfox with dogs ar den or caller in the winter.

In Namibia, springbuck will be our small game and that is our favorite small game to shoot.
That is the best.

Before they introduced Calicivirus into Australia it was Rabbits. An autumn afternoon with a .22lr and a pocket full of shorts strolling along a dry creek bank looking under blackberry bushes, made for the ultimate relaxed hunt.

Sage rats and prairie dogs for sure. Lots of trigger time. Short shots and long shots there for the red mist!!!