Unusual Trophy !

[Trigger50]

I've always wanted to shoot a woodland black squirrel. In my area of the world we only see them occasionally in town. Well it finally happened today. I'm gonna tan the pelt. Quite the unusual trophy.

 

[375H&H]

Don't wound one and have it go up your pants, you will question if there is a god. Cool trophy though

 

[brymoore]

Trophy squirrel!

 

[7mm08mo]

Very cool. Neat looking squirrel, we don’t have them in my neck of the woods.

 

[406LIFE]

Few can appreciate a true trophy squirrel. That is a beauty. I'd consider mounting it up, personally.

 

[Trigger50]

Thanks 406LIFE. I'm running out of wall space. ��

 

[duckhunt]

Thats cool

 

[Gerald Martin]

Nice squirrel! Melanistic phase of fox squirrel or grey? I've seen a couple black fox squirrels and shot one when I was a teenager, but have yet to see a melanistic grey.

 

[Trigger50]

He's got a white spot on a back hip too.

 

[p_ham]

That's a big squirrel.

 

[Trigger50]

I think its a grey.

 

[Pagosa]

Beautiful squirrel. I still enjoy squirrel hunting and eating fox squirrels. I seen one black squirrel when I was a kid in northeastern Oklahoma, it was the only one.

 

[Trigger50]

But I'm still working on my 1st bull elk ! Haha

 

[Bowhuntrben]

Awesome Tim! Congrats!

 

[Eric.MN]

Nice squirrel! We have quite a few black grey squirrels hee in central mn at my folks place. Probably a 1/3 of squirrels we see there are black in color.

 

[MinnesotaHunter]

That is really cool, Tim! It looks like a real nice sized one too! I have seen a few of them down towards north field and cannon, never able to get one though....

 

[Gut Shot]

They are a black color phase (not melanism) of the grey squirrel. We have lots of them around here. I saw one this year with a big white spot on the tail. At first I was like "what the hell is a skunk doing in a tree", then I looked through the bino and it was a squirrel.

 

[archer wapiti]

very cool. Congrats!

 

[fishing4sanity]

But I'm still working on my 1st bull elk ! Haha

Yes, but how was the packout of your trophy squirrel? That really is a neat looking squirrel and I would for sure keep the pelt ....... truthfully I'd have a taxidermy bill.

 

[Topgun 30-06]

It's my understanding that W. K. Kellogg brought some black squirrels to Battle Creek from somewhere overseas many decades ago and we have more of them at least in the LP than fox squirrels now!