Who hunts squirrel w/ bow

[Tajue17]

Im bored i guess but the thought did cross my mind...

Whats your stickbow set up for squirrel and do you use any squirrel calls?   I was on a call makers website and saw his bellows style squirrel calls and wondered if they'd work with bow ( being close to bottom of tree i suppose)

Any opinions?

[Orion]

Seldom hunt them anymore, but when I did, I used my standard deer set up.  Used steel blunts for shots in trees, small broadheads for shots on the ground.  Gave up using flu-flu arrows.  Squirrels are tough critters, and the flu-flus often don't hit hard enough to kill. Never found it necessary to use calls, though I suspect they work in the right hands.   

[Longrifleman]

Yep, same. No calls, steel small game heads, and I just wander thru the woods until I see 'em, then just try to sneak up close enough to get a shot...

...Except when there's too many in the back yard under the bird feeder-then I just whack 'em from our kitchen slider, & haul 'em down to the pasture across the road to feed the turkey vultures ("buzzards gotta eat, same as the worms..." I once heard  )


I also use my carbon shafts instead of aluminum so they won't get bent up!

[Pat B]

I have shot squirrels before and my set up was wood shafts with single full feather spiral fletch for squirrels up to 30' to 40' in a tree, farther than that, a 6 fletch with heavy helical. For a head my favorite was an old TradGang invention called a ""nutter, a 3/8" hex nut threaded on the tapered end. I would thread it with about 1/4" of the taper protruding and soak that end with super glue to harden it up. The extended taper would give some penetration as the nut gave the thump.

[Stumpkiller]

Used to.  One rig was a Dick Palmer Hunter longbow (basically a ML10 with the limbs reworked to trapezoidal) and wood flu-flus with GameNabber (I think that was the name - might have been TigerClaw) tips.  Also carry blunts when deer hunting and have popped squirrel with them.  One of the best shots I ever made was a red squirrel running along a felled hamlock trunk at around 20 yards.  His tail was on my back quiver for years . . . until I left it where a cat could reach it.  I also loke the glue-on Ace Hex Heads.  Very effective.

Had a neighbor when I lived "closer in" who owned 200 acres behind our house.  He was in his 90's and I had permission to hunt his land so long as I brought him four dressed grey squirrels annually.  He made them into delicious pot pies.


Never had an official call, but at some point someone showed me how to attract them by clicking the edge of a quarter aganst another laid flat in your palm.  Sometimes worked to get them in.  Curiosity, or maybe it sounded like another squirrel chewing nuts?

[dnovo]

I hunted them a lot when I was younger. Now I will take a shot when they venture close enough to my deer stand.
I use Ace blunts or a broadhead if I'm shooting toward the ground. Never cared for fluflu arrows as I felt they drained too much energy from the arrow. Squirrells are tough critters.
Otherwise I used to take a back quiver full of old, misc arrows with blunts on them and didn't care if they got lost. I have too many arrows.

[Hud]

In western WA the grey squirrel is protected. They are a pest along with several other critters. When I had a few bird feeders, the squirrels, racoons and possums would raid the feeders and knock the feeders down, which resulted in a big mess. My two dogs, did not care for the squirrels and were able to catch a few trying to escape over the fence. After I took the feeders down they ceased to be a problem and their fleas were gone too.  If I lived in Eastern WA, where there is no restriction, I would put out the feeders and shoot the squirrels. But, I would rather hunt rabbits. quail, grouse and other small game in season.