Squirrel Hunting

[TxAg]

Originally posted by wds:
Take 125 grain steel blunt. Put it in a vice. Use a hack saw to cut down through the head about a quarter inch or so.  Cut a penny in half with a pair of side cutters Use a hammer to tap the half penny into the cut in the blunt.Use the vice to  Squeeze the blunt closed on the penny. File or grind a sharp edge on the penny. Works great and cost per head is about 11 cents if you buy the blunts by the hundred. These are very easy to make and work very well. What the hell else are you going to do with a penny these days?

Regarding the half penny, are you sticking the flat side out (meaning the cut side) or the round side out?

[Duncan]

Squirrels Down!! Man I'm lovin this thread.

[frank bullitt]

First, grays and piney squirrels are not anyway near the tenacity, toughness, sinewy, 9 lives, etc, of a Fox squirrel, period!

Tough as a wild tom cat!

For a cheap and efficient, diy point, here's what works for me.

I take my old, used field points, be the 125 or more in grain weight. Blunt the tip with either a file or grinder, flat! Then clamp in vice on an old shaft, or use 2 vice grips, one to hold the shaft, point, and the other to hold that vicegrip to a solid flat surface.

Then hacksaw a slot, about a 1/2" deep. Now you need some banding steel 1" wide, like found at a lumber yard, factory,machine shop or scrap yard. Even ole replacement style modular brodheads could be used.

Cut a piece of the banding about 3/4" long, using shears, chisel, or dremel. Either in a triangle shape or half moon. Now insert in slot, align by your eye, and super glue!

When dry and ready, take a file and sharpen up the leading edge, doesn't have to be razor, just sharp!

I use these on my Acme Ramin shafts, and chundoo or heavy pine. Along with broadheads for ground shots, this is my arsenal for Squirrels!

[Dimondback]

I seem to get most of my squirrel hunting done while I am supposed to be deer hunting. We practice for them using cardboard cut-outs of different squirrel profiles (side, perched on a limb, flattened against a trunk, etc) and set them out in the yard/range at different unknown ranges and play a game of "H.O.R.S.E" to make things interesting and fun. Great practice and makes larger targets seem almost "unfair" after a few rounds of this.

[Jerry Jeffer]

I'm really getting in the mood to shoot squirrels now!

 

[wollelybugger]

My best tip for shooting squirrels is to go deer hunting, and if you want to see deer go squirrel hunting. Works for me.lol

[ripforce56]

here is my black squirrel, 15yds with a judo and footed carbon arrow! Bama Osage Royal Expedition longbow! shot count was 1 for 6 !

[two4hooking]

Originally posted by BaldingEagle:
I did something very similar to what wds described.  I made the cut in a .38 caliber casing and slid in a triangular piece of banding steel. Glued and pinched it tight.  (The man who taught me how to do this silver-soldered his in place.) Then file sharpen the triangle.  I have used it, or seen them work on squirrels, rabbits, pheasants, nutria, and ground hogs.  The triangle cuts like a broadhead and the .38 casing adds some punch.  Fly well, too.

Got it from J. Rob Davis right???    

That method works well for me, but I like the simplicity of the steel blunt- vise idea...no messy solder!  I need to try this!

 

[BaldingEagle]

two4hooking, You're right.  Rob has used them on many critters.  I've killed nutria and pheasant with them.  I agree with the simplicity of the blunt, but have at least two boxes of empty brass in .38 and one smaller caliber that I would use before spending $$ on the blunts. (Good to have a policeman as a dad!)

I traded the solder for some 2 ton epoxy and that holds up almost as well. (Just don't make that statement to Rob!)

[jonathan creason]

Originally posted by Bud B.:
Faith finally scores!

 

Great shooting, Bud!  We need to get everybody together again and go chase some rats.

[Bud B.]

Yeah that RH single bevel Eclipse plowed right through the shoulder blade....      

Maybe after deer season is over we can hit Birkhead and walk the trails stumpin' and squirrelin'  

[Recurve50 LBS]

Just got done footing some carbons to toughenthem up some more. Lots of rocks where I've been shooting at squirrels.

[joe skipp]

Favorite trick ...got a squirrel on the other side of a tree...throw something past the tree. The bushytail will come around to your side.

Also, hunt them like you would whitetails. Early morning and late evening. Find a good area and sit tight.

[instinctivebowman]

joe, you kill them with that rubber blunt too? just curiuos. My stumpers typically just piss them off, mine are too soft for that
jeremy

[joe skipp]

Hard bludgeons never killed them...just took the wind out of their sails. Had to race up and finish them off. Judos or Tiger claws will send them to dream land.

[ChuckC]

Balding eagle  how about pouring some melted lead in there instead of epoxy.  Get another 100 grains up front and it will keep everything together. Especially if you first dril a hole in the part of the banding that is inside the shell casing.
ChuckC

[Mike Gerardi]

I use two blade broadheads on squirrels. Had too many get away with blunts.
 

 
 

[Duncan]

We've just about got enough for a skwerl head stew! lol!

I've killed most of mine with rubber blunts but we're talking 10 yds or so and I use the large size blunts not the little plastic ones. Otherwise I like game nabbers, hex heads etc. I've been experimenting with some home made heads like mentioned here with slotted feild tips with band saw blade for a mini broadhead. Also have use old 3 blade Bodkins with the tip cut off. Hate digging broadheads out of trees!

Duncan

[Recurve50 LBS]

Boy they are tough critters. Hit 2 hard and they kept going.

[Possum Head]

I've really enjoyed this thread.Those black squirrel pics are great.I think the two blade broadhead is the path I'll take, particularly since they will be on the ground. Judos are good but I have to finish too many off,disturbing other squirrels while doing so. I'm not good enough to take head shots and those body shots sure withstand punishing blows!