what is a warvil. ??I look it up and came up with nothing ,what do they do,

Great pic!

Bot fly larvae = warble = warvle = warvil = (and in my location) a wolf. A really nasty looking "worm" about an inch long that lives under the hosts skin.

Nice job Clay. Squirrel hunting is by far my favorite. I noticed they were just starting to cut the hickory’s in my yard when I mowed grass Sunday.

Oh...the ugly nastiness!!!

Used a shotgun just a few times and never a dog to hunt squirrels in East Texas.
Sounds like you need a girl to show you how to hunt them, lol.

Thanks, been wondering. They haven't cut the yard yet but there are plenty of them. Are they hit and miss in the woods or do we have good crop?? Havent been out too much work here lately.

Seem to be a pretty widespread good hickory crop this year. Creek bottoms and in the hills.
Early on they just cut the ones ripe enough. Find those trees and they are stacked up in them.
Killed another limit this morning.
Gonna jack around and get hot again.

Miss hunting squirrels in Missouri woods. I've come to love hunting the oak pockets I have in SW Oklahoma, but it's not quite the same.

OH MaN1 I love me some Ozark tree rats!

Clay the real question is how's the seed tick crop?? Only reason I hate hunting this time of year.. I spray seems like that doesn't do much from those tiny things

Immediately started itching .

Are you using DEET or Permethrin. I think ticks actually enjoy a dose of DEET. Permethrin repels and kills the ticks (and I hope they are in extreme pain while dying).

Permethrin

I guess the hickory nuts are getting close to ready everywhere. I was reading this thread earlier and walked outside to throw some scraps over the fence. The squirrels are cutting hickory nuts in the yard.

Illinois limit this morning

Awesomeness

Great Picture

I haven’t had a tick in a few weeks.
Seed ticks are not present in the North Missouri creek bottoms that I hunt 90 percent of the time.
My anecdotal experience is that there is a correlation between seed ticks and white oaks. I’ve never got into bad seed ticks when I wasn’t around white oak timber. No white oaks in these creek bottoms.
I’m a die hard permethrin user in spring and early summer, then ticks kinda disappear up here. My son and I have been running beagles on cool mornings. They aren’t getting ticks either.
What we do have is the most incredible crop of skeeters that I’ve seen in many years. We had a flood that covered all these creek bottoms a couple weeks ago. Low spots and oxbows are full and that sudden influx of water must have been timed right because you don’t dare set foot in the woods without deet and/or a thermacell. I’ve seen them this thick before, but it’s been awhile.

5 is a mighty low limit.
Missouri limit was 6 for many, many, years. We got it bumped to 10 several years back. We could have no limit and it wouldn’t effect the population at all in my opinion.

When I was a kid opening day would find me sitting under the shagbarks. They always came in first and right before opening day and getting cleaned up quick. That and we had very few of them. But for a few days you had the squirrel magnet. Next was the "black" hickory, pignut/red, but we had a ton of those so you were better off slow stalking through stands of them vs sitting.