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re: Have fox squirrels become less common?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:30 am to Manchac Man
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:30 am to Manchac Man
Which one is the chuckle-head?
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Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:40 am to AlxTgr
He is the first one to get shot at. 
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:48 am to Manchac Man
In California where I mainly live there aren't a y. But at my house and land in Oklahoma the fox squirrels are thick. On any given morning you see about 20 in the trees around the house.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 12:26 pm to REB BEER
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Your woods have changed over time. Fox and cat squirrels will co-exist in the same habitat, but each has a preference. It's been a long time since I studied this in school (or even thought about it), but definitely as the habitat is altered, by maturing, logging, thinning, etc., the % of fox/cat squirrels can swing one way or the other.
Hmmm. I reckon so. But the woods where we do the majority of the squirrel hunting is about 2000 acres of old growth hardwoods. Like hasn't been logged in 80 years type stuff. 30 years ago it was closed canopy, mature oaks. Not a stump in the woods. At that time, no one knew the last time it was logged. Other than a couple bad hurricanes, there hasn't been any thinning, but the Hurricanes did do some damage there.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:01 pm to Fratigerguy
That's interesting. Where about is the lease you have? There are a couple factors outside of habitat which could play a part but most everything is based off habitat. Even the the most subtle change could swing animal numbers.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:03 pm to Manchac Man
There's a squirrel downvoter
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:12 pm to AlxTgr
Who me? Would never. I only down vote one person on TD and he stays on the rant and recruiting board
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:14 pm to Manchac Man
No, just saying there is one.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:17 pm to ToulatownTiger
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Not at golf courses
This. See them all over the place at local golf courses. Never anywhere else.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:36 pm to AlxTgr
Oh. I gotcha.
Yea, I don't know who downvotes in a good squirrel thread.
Yea, I don't know who downvotes in a good squirrel thread.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:37 pm to Manchac Man
The ones I grew up hunting were small and very orange. On bottom land. A buddy of mine showed me some chucklehead territory in the uplands. I killed a few up there that sounded like a coon hitting the ground.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:40 pm to greenfin
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Have fox squirrels become less common?
Yes, yes they have.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:48 pm to DownSouthDave
Well done
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:49 pm to Manchac Man
quote:Ole Ghost Face
Bachmans Fox
quote:Bachmans is what my buddy from Mississippi called them
Which one is the chuckle-head?
This post was edited on 1/27/16 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 3:10 pm to GCHunter
That's correct Bachmans are the ones that have the Ghost face and paws. I've heard of chuckle-head before and I thought it was a general term used to call asquirrel such as bushy tails and so forth. Hell they all chuckle.
Mostly in Mississippi you have the Bachmans for a Fox. Some Swamp Fox Squirrels overlap if delta or bottom land is near.
Mostly in Mississippi you have the Bachmans for a Fox. Some Swamp Fox Squirrels overlap if delta or bottom land is near.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 3:14 pm to AlxTgr
I assume you were hunting in the delta or it could have been the Western Pine Fox area up by Alexandria (transition area). The Bachmans is nearly twice the size of most fox squirrels. If you have never seen one then it's a site. So yea, they sound like coons hitting the ground.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 3:19 pm to Manchac Man
Yeah, I don't think we have Bachman's. There's just a difference in size and color between the Foxes on the Red River bottomland and those up in the Kisatchie hills.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:11 pm to AlxTgr
Every 3 years or so a really big owl sets up shop around my place and does some serious thinning of the cat squirrel population. Haven't seen it in a while - one of these rednecks around here may have harvested it.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:19 pm to JoePepitone
I hear they taste like eagle.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:23 pm to AlxTgr
I'm sure most of it is feathers but that sucker is big. It sat on a limb about 30' outside my kitchen window for about 45 minutes one day. Appeared to be about 2' tall and as big around as the the thickest part of a football.
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