Squirrel hunting

[quilbilly]

Mepps is advertising that the company is paying over 25 cents for squirrel tails for its spinners. A dozen will get you a box of 22's (and a meal).

[popper]

Don't know if Tx requires a pelt tag for tails.

[Jeff Michel]

They used to double the cash amount if you took it in fishing lures.

[popper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpcRhflUbcg
Speaks for itself.

[EMC45]

Too funny!

[smokinfeathers]

They been doing it for a long time!! You do get more if you take lures n trade

[Mk42gunner]

I remember reading those advertisements in the back of magazines when I was kid. IIRC they were paying ten cents in the seventies.

Robert

[Freightman]

Don't know if Tx requires a pelt tag for tails.

The season on those critters is Sep 1 to Aug 31 so that tells me we have plenty.

[Bookworm]

Season in Okie-land is open all year, except for a month or so in late winter to allow the critters to breed.

At my place we are absolutely overrun with tree-rats, and cotton-tails this year. I expect to thin some out this fall....

[Elkins45]

People just don't hunt them like they used to--I know that I essentially stopped after my grandmother passed away. It was a fall tradition that I would visit and shoot a few on Saturday and then we would have them for breakfast the next morning. I remember her making squirrel dumplings that were so good I would eat until I was bloated.

I really haven't had a decent squirrel since she passed, although I suspect much of that is nostalgia.

[rking22]

Elkins45, that brought back memories! When I was young, I always shot the squirrels thru the neck so that me and Granny could have squirrel brains with the fried squirrel and biscuits. I still shoot them thru the neck but have not had squirrel brains (to eat) since 1974 when Granny passed. Well ,the wife thinks I have "squirrel brain" all the time, I think she's probably more right than wrong

I love to eat squirrels, and save the tails in thoughts of sending them to Mepps but never get "roun-to-it" . They make great cat toys, so says my cat !

[TCLouis]

Once or twice a year UI have one that learns to jump from the tree to the feeder.

Mr. 18.13 H&N baracuda Hunter trains them in one lesson.

Guess I had better start saving tails for Mepps

[Traffer]

I think that most people are too lazy to clean them now a days. Nothing beats squirrel stew. Worth every bit of the work of cleaning. They are hunted pretty hard around here. (except in the city) I don't know of a place where a couple of folks can get 10 or 12 in a days hunt anymore. Alas, the good old days.

[Washington1331]

I wish I could find my way into a den of bushy tails. I've been trying to train a new pup in squirreling, but after spending five days walking around five different public hunting lands scouting for squirrel and deer this spring... I didn't even see any tell tail signs... I think we found one nest and one feeding ground, but no bushy-tails. Of course when we got home to suburbia I saw 12 in five minutes. Go figure.

[white eagle]

when I was a young fella my buddies and me used to hunt squirrels
never acquired a taste for them sure would like to try some good recipes
if you care to pass them along

[jaysouth]

Do you absolutely have to kill them to harvest the tails? I have heard that the tail gives them balance when they jump from one tree to another.

If I caught all the tree rats in the neighborhood and cut their tails off, maybe they couldn't jump around so much and I would have lots of Mepps spinners.

I'll send a picture to PETA.

[white eagle]

I hope he is kidding

[Rufus Krile]

A lot of folks don't know just how 'trainable' the little jerks are... After catching some flak from some touchy-feely neighbors about killing the little tick-breeders, I started live-trapping them and releasing them in other folks neighborhood. Realizing that might be considered rude I decided to just try to train them. When you have one in a live trap they seem to constantly offer constructive criticism and flick their tails at you. A pressure-washer will teach them to not do that... As a matter of fact, with the judicious use of a pressure-washer, I think I could teach one to whistle... maybe fetch a ball... But you can absolutely break them of picking that tail up...

[trapper9260]

The fur buyer I sell to,buy the skin with the tail on ,reds are higher price ,the gray are lower. You put them up like mink.

[Half Dog]

Looks like Mepps is looking to make a killing.