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"Barking Squirrels"
Niederlander:
--- Quote from: Mogorilla on September 27, 2021, 01:54:28 PM ---I will have to expand on my hearing of this type of hunting. Being from a rural community, I had heard of it (just not called barking). When I got to high school, I went right to Biology. Our Bio and Zoo teacher had scars on his right forearm that were numerous and long. I am a science geek, so it did not take long before I was doing extra work, got to know him and spent a lot of time in that room. I finally got the nerve to ask him what the heck happened to his arm.
Story starts with him hunting squirrels with a friend when they were 16. He shot right in front of the squirrel, it fell to the ground dead, or so he thought. He walked over, picked it up and proceeded to place it in the pocket at the back of his hunting vest. As he neared the pocket, the not dead squirrel used its back feet to shred his arm in an effort to get away. He began to bleed profusely and called out to his friend. he had passed out when his friend found him, applied a tournequet and drove him to the hospital. It took over 200 stitches (which beats my single record of 108 by a long shot) and he was given 3 pints of blood. He laughed and said he was almost the first person in Illinois to be killed by a squirrel.
I asked him if he still hunted them, and he said yes, but he shoots them in the head now.
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THAT is classic!
DeaconKC:
Davem:
Never thought about it but I wonder if it got started because someone had a large bore for deer, etc and wanted the squirrel but a direct hit would tear up the meat.
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