does anyone no any good public spots to go squrrel hunting around new athens all i want to do is shoot one with my rifle see if i can every where i go i cant find any good spots nvr see a squrrel kinda irritating so if anyone could point me too the right direction i would be more than happy


i dnt want to take anyones "secret spots" so dont spaz out when you read if you think i am

Go down along the river and look for a pecan tree.

o but i have ive been on both sides of the river looking maybe squrrel just isnt my game idk im thinking of just giving hunting up completly

What about Randolph Co CA? My buddy hunts there a lot or so he says..

o but i have ive been on both sides of the river looking maybe squrrel just isnt my game idk im thinking of just giving hunting up completly
If I had to kill something to enjoy being in the woodz i would give it up too. Just being in da woodz should be enough to call it a good day.

If I had to kill something to enjoy being in the woodz i would give it up too. Just being in da woodz should be enough to call it a good day.
My feelings exactly Fun. That's why I don't mind if I don't bring any game back. The time there was what made it worthwhile.

cuz squrrel hunting is the worste the spiders are crazy no im not scared of them i just get pizzed when i have spider webs everywhere on me they get annoying i could go out back and fire sum rounds off at them squrrels but no im going to the woods so dnt bring up crap like i need to just enjoy the woods and not have to kill anything


like i said im pretty sure this is my last year of hunting cuz i got better things than wasting money and my time

like i said im pretty sure this is my last year of hunting cuz i got better things than wasting money and my time


Like playing video games???:cool:

i could go out back and fire sum rounds off at them squrrels but no im going to the woods so dnt bring up crap like i need to just enjoy the woods and not have to kill anything


You shouldn't ask our opinion if you did really want it. Its not "crap". You sound like some other ex-member who used to be on here. When folks had a different way of thinking than his, he said their way was "crap". Smok your getting to the age where folks are going to expect you to start acting like a man, this "I'm just a kid" stuff ain't going to cut it anymore. At 18 your old enough to vote(which effect the rest of us) and die for your country. People are not going to let you slide off as "being just a kid" for much longer they are going to start expecting more from ya. Hope you change your mind about hunting but only you can make that decision. Good luck in what ever you decide to do.:)

Smoke - have you been able to try over here around your Dad's ? Jim's woods and also over by the point might be pretty good spots.
Oh - And speaking of the point - thanks for the time you put in over there helping to keep things nice.
Have you had much time to spend over this way lately? I know earlier in the summer your Dad said work had you pretty tied up.

seeing that i dnt vote it wont effect any of you and im tired of people telling me o its time to be a man and grow up il grow up when i need to i no when to be a man and when to be a kid and abt ex memebers pretty sure im the next one

Like playing video games???:cool:

and no not like video games i play them already


and gretchen i was just over there sunday and i tried in the woods right by his hous there are alot of squrrels there but i just want sumwhre close cuz i do have work and i dnt feel like going to the old mans b4 work just want to find sumwhere i can maybe walk too

and dnt thank me for the point i havnt been over there since prolly last year thats all my pops doing

Smokey, If spider webs are a problem its cause you are walking way to fast to stalk a squirrel, If you slow dound and look you will see em first and then just brush em a side or better jet go around em, Spiders NEED to HUNT to eat!!

you could come out by me. just plan to wear your deer hunting clothes and they sit there on the tree right next you and bark at you for half the day :confused:

if you plan to hunt squirrel, try to avoid getting run over by deer :(

Wow! This thread took off in a bad direction.

Smokey, listen to Old Man Mike. I cut my teeth in the outdoors shooting squirrels. Grey Squirrels. Now squirrels in general are quite wary and my Dad and PawPaw was hard on me to slow down, "heck boy, just find a nut tree and sit there a good long time." they'd tell me. Wasn't long, I started to figure out, you gotta move through there like a box turtle only quieter.

I kilt a few fox squirrels and the old man would show up with 5 greys. I'd say, Dad, them grey ones run off when they see me, but these red ones just sit there and try to hide." He'd chuckle and tell me i was makin' too much noise. Bein' a kid, I was sure he was wrong was just gettin' lucky. But, I learned he was right later on.

So, them squirrels is everywhere, but you're not gonna stomp through the woods walking like you do through a city neighborhood and wack a stack of wild squirrels.

If you find a spot and keep going, just hang in there.

Smoke you need a wiggle stick.... you grab you a twig and walk through the woods swinging your twig and looking like a dumazz like the rest of us...

Smokey

Dont let the old fart's get you down.

I doubt they were all about "just being in the woods" at your age either.

Everyone grows/matures at there own speed, your off to a good start your asking for help here rather then from some knucklehead off the street.

Find a couple oak tree's sit down near them and wait for the little tree rats to come out for breakfast. ;)

Smoke you need a wiggle stick.... you grab you a twig and walk through the woods swinging your twig and looking like a dumazz like the rest of us...

You look like shaman smudging the whole place LOL

Okay Smoke - I won't give you credit for this year:p but I know you've worked hard over there in the past :)

Go where you go duck huntin... they are there, and its what 5 blocks from your door???

I don't feel the tread has taken a wrong turn. Flat speak for yourself, I have never shot an animal that I didn't intend to eat unless it was a nuisance animal. Thats the way I was raised from the word go. Taking an animals life is something that should ALWAYS be looked upon as a serious undertaking. I think thats one rule that should be a priority over other things folks seem to be so hung up on like if you shot it in the head or in the gut or a lot of other little things folks get so worked up over. When someone comes right out and says "I'm looking to fire off a few rounds at something" or on the order of that, I feel that I wouldn't want to take them hunting or give them any tips to point them in the "right direction" to achieve that stated goal. I eat these things and even feed them to my family and would hate to think of someone wasting them. Maybe I took it the wrong way but that what I think of when I hear someone talk like that. I have asked many many folks and have taken several folks hunting with me on my land and have shown them public places to go, as others have done the same for me so my words in this post are not just words on the internet. They are backed up with actions. I'm all for helping other and giving them a chance but certain basic understandings need to be agreed upon first. To me the most basic is "we don't got to the woods to shoot at living things unless we intend to kill them with the least amount of suffering we can and that we use what we take". If I truly didn't believe in this I would have gave up bow hunting after the first season I hunted.

AHA! We (yu and i Fun) read the OP differently. I took it as an honest question from an outdoorsperson who wanted a place close to home, had not hunted squirrel much before, and had cabin fever. I took no issue with the fact that he wished to actually harvest game while out there as opposed to have a need to just be out there.

I do not know Smokey, maybe you do and that is why you read it the way you did. I get a feeling from some of the other posts he may be younger than me. I used to be that age, I remember what it was like to want to go and want to bring home some meat. Go back to you hunter safety book and look at the stages of a hunter. It fits right in.

If i was new to the forum and came in and read this thread not knowing some of you al from previous posts, i would take a few of the posts the wrong way and think maybe some of yall were Donkeys... :D

Anyway, Smokey, don't get discouraged. I been in your shoes being shy on ground to hunt.

I don't know...maybe i read it wrong...

Well Oz what is the OP? The original post? If you go back and look I tried to be supportive it was not till several post in when I was told by Smokey he didn't want to hear that "crap" i.e. what I was saying in my reply that I became less supportive of his "efforts" to enjoy the outdoors. As far as someone being new on here thinking some of us are donkeys. I don't know what to say about that accept you have to have been on here for the last couple of years and have been following the way things have progressed. Oh well I guess thats the internet for ya.:)

Flat speak for yourself, I have never shot an animal that I didn't intend to eat unless it was a nuisance animal.

I didn't say anything about you killing anything, thats what you got out of it.
My point was not everyone grows at the same speed, grows to understand the spiritual side of the outdoors.
Yes spiritual, it's a religion to me and if I had to kill something every time out I would have quit a long time ago.
That doesn't mean I'm going to bad mouth a teenager because he doesn't (in my mind) get it, yet.


Well Oz what is the OP? The original post? If you go back and look I tried to be supportive it was not till several post in when I was told by Smokey he didn't want to hear that "crap" i.e. what I was saying in my reply that I became less supportive of his "efforts" to enjoy the outdoors.

He's the kid your the adult.

That doesn't mean I'm going to bad mouth a teenager because he doesn't (in my mind) get it, yet.
You don't have a problem bad mouthing others. Who said anything about "bad mouthing" anyone? I told him the same thing I would have told anyone of my kids. If I would have agree with him, judging by your past replies to other threads, YOU would have been the first to say we where both wrong. Mr. "The woods is my church".:rolleyes: G. tried to stick up for him saying how wonderful he was cleaning up the "point" look where that got her. LOL He told her good didn't he?:rolleyes: It not just "teenagers". I have had 40 year old men shoot squirrel nest right in front of me like there was nothing wrong with it. They will never hunt with me again. I told him that cause in many other post over the last several years he always follows up his actions with "hey I'm just a kid" or the old trusty "J/K". That gets old after the first 10 or 15 times. Ok your turn..:)

He's the kid your the adult.
BTW Flat his profile says hes 19. There where many, many young Marines who served their country with distinguished honor who where 19 and even younger. I doubt they would be happy with being called a "kid". Thats one of the big problems America faces today. We don't expect much from our young folks so why should they expect much from themselves?

I still say I gotta get a :shakingmyhead: smiley...

:D

BTW Flat his profile says hes 19. There where many, many young Marines who served their country with distinguished honor who where 19 and even younger. I doubt they would be happy with being called a "kid". Thats one of the big problems America faces today. We don't expect much from our young folks so why should they expect much from themselves?


Cant argue that but I would say the Marine Corps is what made that 19 yo no longer a kid.
I know those 4 DI's got my attention like my parent never could. :D

You don't have a problem bad mouthing others. Who said anything about "bad mouthing" anyone? I told him the same thing I would have told anyone of my kids.

Dont go getting holier then thou on me you've said plenty here on SILO yourself.

I guess Smokey could just use the same excuse others use, "It's not illegal".

Dont go getting holier then thou on me you've said plenty here on SILO yourself.

I guess Smokey could just use the same excuse others use, "It's not illegal".
Right back at ya ..Friend..:) You where so ready to say no just cause I said yes or to say stop cause i said go, that you didn't even check your facts..

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'll tell yall how confusing this thread is:

I thought Flat and Fun was agreeing with each other!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Dang!

OP = Original Post(er)

And, to get back to it...

Sorry Smokey, I don't live down that far so I ain't got no spots for ya. :D

Right back at ya ..Friend.. You where so ready to say no just cause I said yes or to say stop cause i said go, that you didn't even check your facts..



never mind I'll pm it.
To all 3 so you dont have to forward it.

G. tried to stick up for him saying how wonderful he was cleaning up the "point" look where that got her. LOL He told her good didn't he?

I don't feel like "he told me good".. He gave credit to his Dad for taking care of that area this year .. and I had said in my post that his Dad had said his work was keeping him busy this summer (in comparison to other years) .. I took no offense to Smokey's answer to me and I do think he's a good fella. Until he gives me a reason not to, I'll keep on sticking up for him.
So, not sure what point you were trying to make with that part of your post.. I don't feel like Smoke was rude or of line in any way towards me.. just wanted to make sure that was clear.
If your perception of his answer was different ..so be it.. but I have no quarrel with his response to me.

Sorry for the hijack - can we get back to the original reason for Smokey's thread? Areas that he might be able to check out for squirrel hunting?

ok for all the people who told me to walk slower and get a stick well i sumtimes do that but im getting into the woods at first there is like 50,000 spider webs i no wat to do when squrrel hunting i walk into the wookds and sit down and listen and watch, all i wanted to know was a spot around here or a direction sumone could lead me too

but sum people have to put there two cents in and be my DAD for sum reason i dnt think you people are my dad and your trying to pizz people off by being parental

all i wanted was maybe a spot and i get 5 pages worth of arguments cuz old vs young goes for one more round and being as they are both stubborn no one will give up

and dnt be putting the millitary into this im 19 im still a kid those young marines they are still kids


I just want to say thank you for the people who gave me advice or tried to give me advice and thank you for the people who stuck up for me

and too the ones who wanted to pick the fights GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!

Smoke you wanna go hunting round home, I'll be off Mon - Wed next week. You stop by when you see my truck around and we'll go after something.

well bob thanks for the invite but i work everyday so its gunna be hard to find a time to hunt thats y i was kinda looking for a sure fire spot lol cuz if and win i get to go i would like to atleast not just waste part of my day off lol but il have to c

I live about an hour or so away from ya guys but if ya make it down this way sometime i will take ya out to a few good public places and heck i might even shoot a few with my bow while i am out there with ya ;)

ok for all the people who told me to walk slower and get a stick well i sumtimes do that but im getting into the woods at first there is like 50,000 spider webs


I don't like spider webs either, but that's part of being in the woods especially during the warm months.


The only good thing I can say about spider webs is.....
If spider webs are not present on a trail or travel route it tells you that most likely someone..or possibly a deer has been down that trail or travel route .

If webs are present you may be in an undisturbed part of the woods..

Which is a good thing..especially when hunting! :D