squirrels and bows?

[unregistered]

Alot of you folks are saying Squirrels are hard to kill if hit poorly. I'm guessing that these are not the Red Squirrels I chase in Alberta. These little fellas are about as tough as a day old kitten. I have killed them with everything from judos, fieldpoints, rubber blunts, broadheads, a wad of duck tape on the end of a cracked carbon arrow, and even once with a clod of dirt. Any of these attached to all types of arrows have killed Squirrels for me, and every hit was lethal whether it hit the hind quarters, chest, or head. No Squirrels have been lost, and the only one requiring a second arrow took a hit it the arse while sitting on a branch. He fell to the ground and with both hind legs busted it was easy to administer the second arrow. All that being said I will confess that they are very difficult targets capable of stunts that put the Matrix movies to shame. Because of this I prefer to use my regular hunting arrows simply because they are faster than flu-flus and harder for the Squirrel to dodge. My favorite head is a rubber blunt since it has alot of surface area and will not snag up in tree branches like a judo will. I try to shoot at Squirrels when they have branches behind them so that if I miss my arrow will usually bounce off these allowing me to recover it.

[K. Mogensen]

I agree. The squirrels I've hunted have been hard to hit, but once hit, they were pretty much dead. There's been squirrels that I didn't think I even hit that fell outta the tree dead. I have had to use two arrows before because the first was a bad hit to the bum (just like yours) I took care of it pretty quickly though and put an arrow clean through his chest. I use normal steel blunts. They work fine.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Justin,

It sounds like you have pine squirrels up there. I see a lot of them in Wisconsin, but can't hunt them in that state. They're about half the size of a gray squirrel, which is about half the size of a fox squirrel.

[unregistered]

Yup your probably right Mr Wesbrock as I can't say I have ever heard of a Gray Squirrel or Fox Squirrel. How big are they? I have heard of a Squirrel in the south of my province that is almost black and about the size of a Rabbit, are they a Fox or Grey or something else entirely?

[drewsbow]

 


I shot these with hex blunts and hammer heads although it shows a feild point used as a finisher.  Any bow and arrow combo will do and cheap wood arrows are a good way to start . Drew

[BUFF]

Originally posted by Justin Black:
These little fellas are about as tough as a day old kitten.

Now thats funny right there  

[BEN]

Justin,

the "black ones the size of a rabbit" sound like the black-phase of fox squirrel. Quite a bit tougher than the small red-squirrels and quite tasty.

Here, we have the red's, gray's, and fox squirrels with an occasional all black fox .  I leave the reds alone---just not worth it with much bigger  squirrels around.

Ben

[unregistered]

Man I wish we had some of these Fox Squirrels in Northern Alberta. The Reds ain't that great for eating and it takes a bushel of em to make a meal. And there is the fact that I seem to loose about 1 arrow per Squirrel since the little Red buggers are almost never on the ground. All you folks mention stalking Gray and Fox so I am figuring they must spend some time in the dirt.

[George D. Stout]

We have fox squirrels here as big as house cats 8^).  They will take your arrow and break it over their knee if you don't hit them good.

[unregistered]

Cat size tree rats with attitude! Sounds like a blast!

[BlurryBuffalo]

i guess the squirrels in Indiana are tougher because i shot a black squirrel twice with a bunny buster once in the shoulder and the second in the head and both did not kill it hurt the crap out of it but did not kill it. I ended up killing it with my Third shot with a field point. I felt bad cus i shot it so many times with out killing it.

[George D. Stout]

Capitalization and punctuation....the gift that keeps on giving.      

I guess the squirrels in Indiana are tougher because I shot a black squirrel twice with a Bunny Buster, once in the shoulder, and the second in the head, and both did not kill it; hurt the crap out of it but did not kill it. I ended up killing it with my third shot with a field point. I felt bad because I shot it so many times without killing it.

[BUFF]

Originally posted by George D. Stout:
Capitalization and punctuation....the gift that keeps on giving.      

I guess the squirrels in Indiana are tougher because I shot a black squirrel twice with a Bunny Buster, once in the shoulder, and the second in the head, and both did not kill it; hurt the crap out of it but did not kill it. I ended up killing it with my third shot with a field point. I felt bad because I shot it so many times without killing it.

       

[Last of the Breed]

At least his spelling has gotten better!    

[Mike Gerardi]

 
Anything you can get your hands on!

[Lupe]

Yesterday i lost an arrow shooting at a squrriel. i only had 3 arrows and 1 was broke and the other is a good broadhead .. the other is gone. the squrriel left the tree when i went to get the 22

[Lupe]

TTT we go post ur stuff on squirrels