With only three more weekends left to hunt before the small game season ends on February 28th, I took a trip down to Patuxent River State Park to try and bag a couple more squirrels. I've been switching scopes around from gun to gun and didn't have a scoped .22 that was zeroed, so I took my Marlin .17 caliber. Some say that .17 caliber rifles are ideal for squirrel hunting. But, I believe a rifle in .22 caliber is best fitted for hunting squirrels. My experience has taught me that the .17 caliber round, even when firing the lighter 17 grain bullets, is a little too hot for these little guys. Unless, of course, you hit them directly in the head. I always aim for the head, but more often than not, my bullet lands in the shoulder or neck area. As a result, the shoulder meat is usually wasted due to the destructive nature of the fast and small round.
Well, I was in the woods by 9:00am and except for woodpeckers and chickadees, I didn't see any activity. It as 27 degrees out and virtually no wind. I did find the remains of a deer that the animals have picked clean. I tried to determine if it had been shot, but there was no way of telling, that I could see. I also found an old dump area, which held some neat old bottles and other interesting junk. I found an old glass two-liter Pepsi bottle, with an aluminum cap which broke when I tried to free it from the frozen earth. I had never seen one of them before. Among the old garbage were various bottles, cans, childrens' toys and random household items.
Well, I was in the woods by 9:00am and except for woodpeckers and chickadees, I didn't see any activity. It as 27 degrees out and virtually no wind. I did find the remains of a deer that the animals have picked clean. I tried to determine if it had been shot, but there was no way of telling, that I could see. I also found an old dump area, which held some neat old bottles and other interesting junk. I found an old glass two-liter Pepsi bottle, with an aluminum cap which broke when I tried to free it from the frozen earth. I had never seen one of them before. Among the old garbage were various bottles, cans, childrens' toys and random household items.
2 comments:
I love the stock on that Marlin. I like nosing around those old dump sites too. They really are a neat window back in time.
Definitely; good stuff. I always think of the people who dumped it. Was it a usual thing to just throw your junk in the back of the pick up and drive out to the edge of the field to dump it or what?
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