Nice day for squirrel hunting

My neighbor invited me out to his deer hunting property to help thin out some squirrels. I’ve honestly never seen that many in one few acre parcel of woods before. They were everywhere! We sat up in his tree blind which is huge so we were able move around freely and shoot from all sides of the tree. It was the perfect weather outside too, it was in the 50’s and not too windy. I took out my taipan and he had his 22mag. He was amazed at how well my taipan shot and how quiet and accurate it is. The first squirrel I shot was about 55 yards away which I placed a head shot on and he dropped on the spot. That’s not that far of a shot for that rifle but to someone who isn’t into them it is enough to impress them. He was even more shocked when I told him how much I have into the whole setup lol. He said he’ll stick with his 22mag! None the less we had a great time and there are now a few less critters to mess with him while he’s deer hunting. 

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I have a pretty good group of friends. We all help each other out when it comes to hunting. Sonny I think I have to shoot a ton of pellets to makeup the difference! I honestly don’t care what it costs me because I really enjoy shooting airguns and it opened up a lot of adventures for me. That’s worth more than any amount of money to me. I’ve always said the only things you can take with you are tattoos and memories so get a bunch of both!
 
Thanks guys. Yeah it took me a while to clean all of these. They were some of the toughest squirrels I’ve ever cleaned. I tried using the vise to do the tail pull but I couldn’t get the skin to tear away from the body. I ended up doing it the old fashioned way. As far as cooking goes I think I’m going to turn the back legs into deep fried and baked buffalo wings. Never done it but it sounds good!
 
There were a few males in there. I have always slow cooked the squirrels in the past because it breaks the meat down so good it’ll fall off the bone. With one or two of these I’m going to experiment with deep frying and baking to see how it turns out. Even if it’s tough I’ll stilll eat it just because I’d feel bad about wasting a living creature due to me experimenting!