I limited out on tree rats with my 22, then took this pic with them laying by a Nugent sticker I had on my truck, that sticker still makes me chuckle!

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g125/huntrz_2006/17aa.jpg

Yum

Tree rat, crock pot'em ? :D

I had one of his t-shirts that said Will hunt for food.

It sure looks like a Marlin/Glenfield model 60. The first semi-auto .22 I owned is a model 60. It'll still shot the nads off a gnat. I picked up a stainless Ruger 10/22 later. It's nice too, but it just doesn't have the feel of the Marlin.

it is a Marlin model 60, with a JUNK scope on it, i'm lucky to have hit any squirrels with that scope on there, I think I paid $60.00 for that gun at the Belleville Gun Show about 10 years ago. I've always wanted to get a good bolt action squirrel gun with a good scope, hard to justify when you only go once a year.

.17 are the rage now... anyone shoot that cal yet?

My ma has an old Amish cookbook. One squirrel recipes starts...

100 Squirrels...


Musta use that meal for a barn raising...

I got 5 or 6 in the freezer, I was thinking potpie... anyone else have any good tree rat recipes?

My squirrel weapon of choice is a Ruger 10/22 carbine fitted with a Simmons 8-point 4x32 scope shooting CCI stingers in it. It makes one hell of a hole on the way out (for a .22) and drops them suckers dead out of the tree.
I grew up using a shotgun on em but picking shot out sucked.

Frieda's Bar in Renault has a big squirrel fest every year...fried, baked, stewed, stroganoff, pot pies...squirrel in every concievable fashion....I think there was even squirrel on a stick last year....I'll try to get a list and recipes this year....