Giant Fox Squirrel with the Leshiy 2

[Brian.in.MI]

Spent 7 hours hiking / hunting a tiny portion of the 5900 acres of State Forest at the end of my driveway. Very fortunate there! If you’re on Instagram and follow @airgunner.usa, you may have seen this already. 

I encountered a couple of Phantom Squirrels earlier in the day, but couldn’t get a shot. The cover is extremely thick here. 5 hours in, I was exploring a new area and spotted this one, about 60 feet up in a huge oak tree that must be 250 years old. I was only about 40 yards from the tree, so the shot was on a pretty steep angle. Made a nice vitals shot and was floored by what a beautiful and large specimen it was. If it were a feeder-fed city squirrel, it’d probably go 2.6 lbs! Also bagged a beautiful (and quite large) black-phase Eastern Gray.

Look at this thing

The 100% Organic Squalad was delicious AND nutritious

Hope you enjoyed - Brian

 

[theLBC]

nice one, brian. what caliber is your long?

 

[Brian.in.MI]

nice one, brian. what caliber is your long?

It’s a .30, currently shooting Hades. Here’s the one that did the work:

 

[Glem.Chally]

Nice work that's a hog of a fox squirrel.

 

[crosman2016]

Man alive, that was a monster! Beefy.

 

[Jlowe]

Nice! The first time I saw a Fox Squirrel in East TN I thought it looked like a cat up in the trees. Super cool looking gun by the way. 

 

[Trooper836]

What I can't figure out is I have never seen a young fox squirrel. They are all as big as a house cat. Your meal looks good. I mostly fry them and make gravy and biscuits. Good shooting!

 

[Ranchibi]

Great shot on squirrelzilla! Very nice photos.

 

[Emu]

The squirrel of the picture is really different from the fox squirrel that I took 7 years ago during an Elk hunting New Mexico:

 

[Bigfish]

That's 1 really small air rifle. Good shooting 

 

[fatphatboy88]

Great shot. Thats either a big tree rat or a small rifle. 

 

[Red25R]

Great shooting .