[captain-03]

My wife loves to fish .. she likes to squirrel hunt and has been squirrel hunting for many years. We have done much of our squirrel hunting around the Summit/McComb area over the years chasing them little gray squirrels. One day a couple years ago, she mentioned that she wanting to kill a Black squirrel and I told her that we could do that. We made several trips to the Delta WMAs - Mahannah, Shipland, Sunflower, Twin Oaks. Each time she saw and shot squirrels but they were all Reds with a couple grays mixed in. I would take a couple Black ones along with some Reds ... but she just never saw a Black one!

Last Thursday night we were talking and she brought the subject up again. I told her we would try Mahannah again Saturday morning; and we did. Got there just before daylights and headed in the woods. She found a nice place to sit and I wondered off (as I usually do). I had not left her 5 minutes and I heard her shoot - 1 shot. I waited a few minutes and just could not sit still without knowing what she had shot at .. walked back over to where she was and she said - I got him! Yep, a nice big Black buck/boar squirrel. She was thrilled!!



Since the quest had come to an end, I asked her if she was ready to go! She said she wanted to kill another one!! Well she did not get another Black one but did manage to put a nice Red one on the ground! I picked up 2 Reds with my 10/22 and we departed the woods about 10am.

A good day for the wife!! .. and me as well!

 

[SubGunFan]

Nice "colorful" tree rats.

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[RIVERBILLY]

Bet she was excited,,ain't noblack ones up here

 

[ree_countrygirl]

love the black one! dad has one he mounted yrs ago from delta national. congrats to yall!

 

[jbpmidas]

I like it!

 

[sigma74216]

Never seen a black squirrel before. Thanks for sharing.

 

[sidroski]

Never seen a black squirrel before. Thanks for sharing.

Neither have I. We used to hunt outside McComb, Grandmother had about 360 acres on the Bouge Chitto and down in the bottoms close to the river you could rack up.
Tell her congrats! and for showing me something I heard of but ain't never seen.

 

[Rw]

Never seen a black squirrel before. Thanks for sharing.

Never seen a black tree rat either

 

[bubbat]

Wow, surprising ya'll haven't seen black squirrels before, they are all over the place in the Delta, we had a some that lived in the yard.

 

[mildot]

We seen a couple around western Hinds, never been able to kill one. great job, you going to have it mounted?

 

[ftsibley]

very cool..... she mounting it or going to cook it?

now she needs one of these

 

[Rbelote]

Nice! I have always wanted a big Fox squirrel and a black squirrel for the wall.

 

[bubbat]

My uncle killed a white one years ago, it was hanging on the wall of the KFC in Cleveland.

 

[ftsibley]

we have quite a few here in town. I think there is a town in TN that is know for having a big number of white squirrels.

 

[captain-03]

Actually thre are 5 towns that claim fame based on white squirrels!!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/squirrels.html

 

[shoeshooter]

Tastes like chicken??