Spring squirrel season opened a couple of weeks ago, but today was the first chance I had to get out. It was a good day for it, cool, clear and with light wind. I never have done my best squirrel hunting in the spring, don't really know how to figure them out, what they are eating on, etc. Also, on my place it's like hunting in a jungle, or under a low umbrella, the foliage is so rank and low. It was 15 minutes from the time I slipped into the wood till I actually could see up into a tree. Good thing it happened right then, because that tree had a young fox squirrel in it. He was feeding on green mulberries, and my shot at about 18-20 yards brought him down. I was hunting with my 20-gauge Phillips double flintlock loaded with 60 gr. FFg Goex and 70 gr. #6 shot, wadded with two 1/8" cards. I had recently done some work on the left trigger and was anxious to see if it would function as it should. It did, light, crisp and with a clean break. That was the only shot I had, but it was a good day. A small pond in that section of the woods is full of duckweed and bullfrogs, and their constant single note call, GULP, was fine background music.
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