Squirrel Season Starts

Squirrel season opens in Kansas on June first. I'll be out pestering some bushy tails, but am not overly optimistic with all the cover. Also, in our area we have a lot of water and public lands around the lake where I live have lots of flooding. It should be interesting.

Just remember that squirrels sink when they hit the water. Get there in a hurry after the shot.

Where ‘bouts are you Jake ? I am north of Silver Lake. We are doing just barely ok with water. But more coming here shortly and all weekend. In the last 3 weeks to a month my rain gauge has caught 13.45”. Luckily we missed the swirly wind by about 4 miles. Have some cool pics of it though

I live along Tuttle Creek Lake on the west side just north of Manhattan. My property butts up to Corps land, but I now have lake front property with water on the lower part of it. I house will stay high and dry, thank goodness. The lake is about 10 feet from the record level set in 1993. I've done some driving around the area and much of the hunting areas around the lake are flooded. I'm not about to shoot a squirrel that might drop in the flood water. I know many of the nasty places that have been flooded so far and am not about to wade or swim in it.

Zion, do you farm? If so, have you managed to get crops in and is there flooding on fields?

Squirrel hunting right now will be tough. There is lots of ground cover and foliage in the trees. I think the little buggers will have the advantage. The local state part is sponsoring a guided hunts on saturday. They are providing areas to hunt along with a lunch afterwards and a demonstration of preparing and cooking squirrel. I plan to take a grandson or two to it if I can get them away from screen time.

Wow, you're lucky. Our squirrel season doesn't open until early October.....

If you can deal with pint size red squirrels then we are lucky up here. No limit, no closed season.

We got the big fox squill with a few grays thrown in here and there.

I've usually refrained from squirreling in the spring and early fall. Where I've lived in the past it is HOT those times of year; not to mention ticks. I've always waited until deer season and after when it's pleasantly cool.

hanshi said:

I've usually refrained from squirreling in the spring and early fall. Where I've lived in the past it is HOT those times of year; not to mention ticks. I've always waited until deer season and after when it's pleasantly cool.

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I’m the same way and won’t hunt them until late October. It’s like the Vietnam jungle around here now.

[QUOTE="Patocazador, post: Just remember that squirrels sink when they hit the water.
I found that out while hunting from a canoe. Ames, the red squirrels, (we call them pine's)
, taste just like the fox and grey's do. Our season, Indiana, always opens August 15 when it is smoldering hot and the mosquitos can't decide whether to carry you away or eat you there. Keep yer powder dry...…...robin

I agree on the ticks, chiggers, oak mites and mosquitos this time of year. I'll heavy duty it on repellent and maybe some treated clothing too.

With all the thick foliage you gonna use shot or ball? Once that honeysuckle manure invaded Kansas years ago I give up on warm weather woods activity.

Mosquitos are the most aggravating thing during the warmer months in Indiana. I really enjoy squirrel hunting and I get out as soon as I can. Even if I don't see any, I really like being in the woods.

I'm using a 32. I don't have a muzzleloading shotgun.

Kansas Jake said:

I'm using a 32. I don't have a muzzleloading shotgun.

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On the squirrels or the mosquitos?

Just getting caught back up on this. Farm, not specifically. More along the lines of homestead. Very large and involved garden, orchard and berries, chickens, ducks currently. Have had hogs, turkey, and cattle off and on.
We are actually in process of buying a new place up north of Beloit. It is about 20 acres so it will give us a little more space to expand. Hopefully the biggest change will be the hunting. Much more available space for that.
I like the comparison to a jungle. It certainly is thick and buggy currently.

Squirrel season here doesn't open until the fall. In the summer a few of the squirrels have "wolves." They are actually bots I'm told but they sure make you wonder whether you want to eat an animal with that nasty-looking critter in it.

I don't know how you guys can put up with all the mosquito's that infest your areas. There aren't a lot of them here in the Arizona deserts but occasionally some idiot with a swimming pool will let the water get stagnant and then they appear.

I hate them.
In Arizona, mosquito's can carry the "West Nile Virus", a rather nasty disease you really don't want to get.
I just saw a report which saying the West Nile Virus carrying mosquito's number is higher this year than it has been in past years. Most likely it's due to the increase in rainfall we've had.

All them nasty diseases are here too Zonie. Didn’t have all that many years ago, next will be Ebola

Search for Spartan Mosquito Eradicator. I get them at Blue Seal feed or Tractor supply.
Listed as $25 for twin pack, they can be had for $20 if you look around. Wont help you over hundreds of acres, but it knocks down the populations by about 90% around your yard, up to an acre. Finally we can sit on the porch unmolested.
I don't normally buy into gadgets like these, but they work. Skeeters are attracted to the water and yeast inside the tube and drown before they breed. They cant seem to keep these on the store shelves now that the word has gotten out up here in central Maine.