Black In The Wind

It has been WARM to HOT the last few days Record high temps several days here in NW Ohio , SE Of Toledo Ohio Not a fan of bow hunting for deer when it is 75 degrees , with a 30 MPH wind So I took the chance to hunt with a guy I meet online in another forum He has a spot that has Gray and some Fox Squirrels a little over a hour away Depending where we hunted , depended what kind of squirrel there was Even better there are some melanistic Squirrels that are Black there in some areas He told me I could shoot a limit if I wanted to But Please only shoot 1 of the Black colored Grey Squirrels as he was hoping to let them expand their range Well with the wind we hunted in a creek bottom with high ground to the south The direction the wind was coming from Well I had the 32 H&R Mag ( used to be 32 S&W ) H&R single shot with a Tasco World Class 3-9×40 scope 95 gr SWC cast bullets Powder coated and pushed to about 1000 FPS with Unique Starline cases , CCI SP primers The hunt was easy There was a corn field next to the creek bottom where we hunted About 1 PM we walked along the edge of the corn field and found spots Where we could see trails coming from the corn field to Maple and White Oak trees The Maple trees had Squirrel boxes in them , so we knew where the squirrels would come from or to Not 5 min after sitting down next to a maple tree I saw a young gray squirrel looking at me from a branch Not 20 yards away , a easy shot Well about 2 hours later I had 5 gray squirrels and had passed up a number of shots But had not seen a Grey / Black Squirrel So we walked a few hundred yards farther along the edge and then dropped down next to the creek Well moving was a good idea , a lot less wind 10 min later I was watching a Black / Gray squirrel hauling a ear of corn toward me I waited for it to stop about 25 feet away and go a few feet up a tree trunk looking back the way it had come Well I pulled the trigger and I had my limit of 6 squirrels I will admit I don\’t hunt gray squirrels much So judging if they are young or older is tougher for me As 3 of my squirrels will spend some time in the slow cooker as they were not young of the year John

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