squirrel hunting

[Ian johnson]

got a couple questions, me, my cousin, and one of my friends are gonna try a tackle squirrels with longbows, I have an assortment of small game heads, I know old broadheads are te best, but I only have a few, i know that field tips and rubber blunts are bad, so what if I put a sharpened wingnut on the tapered wood shaft(sort of like a wingnutter, but without the field point) and then sharpened the taper to a point, these are junk arrows that I dont care about loosing, would this work, anyone tried it?, also what is the optimum time to see grey squirrels in oak bottoms?

[Bowspirit]

It's not the field point that makes a wingnutter so deadly, it's the sharpened wings. That very same set up has taken a few small game critters for me. You'll be fine...

[jimmerc]

A good post, I think I may give the wingnut thing a try!!          

[ishiwannabe]

I agree with Chris, wingnutters will do the deed.
I like to stalk squirrels. I move only when they have their head burried in leaves, or behind a tree. I try to sound as much like a squirrel as I possibly can.
The morning, an hour or so after first light, is when they start scampering around up here. Then its sporadic all day with another crest before the light fades.

[Bill Skinner]

If you shoot at them in trees, try to get  directly under them.  If you miss, your arrow will come down about 50 yards away and you can use it again.  Don't use broadheads when you do that, I have had arrows deflect all over the place and actually land behind me.  Also, to reach full draw, I anchor on the corner of my jaw.  I average about 5-6 shots per hit, you cannot carry enough arrows on a good day.  Bill

[BRITTMAN]

Your right about feild tips not being good for squirrels . I learned that the hard way , the other day I shot a squirrel out in the yard with a pratice tip and hit it perfect . I had to chase that dang squirrel all over the place (with all the neighbors watching of course  )before I finally put him out of his misery . The arrow was still stuck in him and sticking out both sides and he ran thru the neighbors yards like that before I could get him      .
Im going to try judos out and see how they do .

Mike

[Flinttim]

Ain't nothing wrong with field points, you just have to alter them some. I posted  a year or two back how to do it. Can't look for it right now but it's here somewhere. You use  needle nose pliers to turn up small wings at the back of it. Sort of like a Game Nabber

[ishiwannabe]

Judos dont put squirrels down too well...one I hit(and hit well) flexed, yelled at me and climbed the tree.  :rolleyes:

[RonnieB]

A buddy of mine taught me to put panel nails thru the field point and that stops them cold.  I shot a small red squirll once and he was DONE.  Now if you hunt Greys you mite need 2 nails at 90 degreees to each other, but at $2 a pound it still rocks!  Good luck!!

[tarponnut]

I have a friend that does really well on squirrels with the Montec small game head.
He shot five gray squirrels one day with his recurve and that head!!!We were hunting hogs but he couldn't resist.
I've had good luck with a flu flu arrow and judo point.You need a head that will shock them.
I don't like field tips or broadheads because of the chance they will stick in a tree 20 feet off the ground!