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For many South Carolina hunters, the end of deer season is coming too soon.

Scott Hammond is one of those people who can’t spend enough time in the woods. Last season, the Colleton County resident shot deer 107 times.

“It was a good season and I saw a lot of deer,” he said. But the hunt that many times still leaves him hungry for more. He fills that void by hunting squirrels.

“I love squirrel hunting. It’s a great way to end deer season and get rid of those recalls,” Hammond said. “It’s a wonderful time of year to be in the woods. All the leaves are off the trees and you can see everything. You end up finding deer sheds. You find deer trails you didn’t know existed when you’re out hiking. You can learn a lot about the forests in general at this time of year”.

Hammond uses a .22 long rifle equipped with a scope while hunting in woods located in Orangeburg County and on property he owns in Colleton County.

“I focus on hardwood areas with a lot of oaks. I cover 30 to 50 yards very slowly, walking. Then I lean against a tree and sit there and listen for 10, 15, 20, sometimes 30 minutes,” Hammond said. . “Your ears are the best tool you have. You hear the squirrels chattering back and forth, talking, whistling. You can hear them rustling on the ground in the leaves and feeding.”

He said you can’t successfully catch squirrels by stumbling through the woods, as the squirrels quickly learn that they are being attacked.

“Once you’ve caught them a time or two, it’s definitely more of a challenge. They’re enthusiastic little critters. Once you’ve caught them a couple of times, I’ll go home and get a limit (10 squirrels) the first time.” weather. Next time you might get eight, next time six, and next time two or three. They start to learn. It’s not because there aren’t hundreds of them there. They become wise very quickly.”

Hammond said that squirrels are most active in the first three hours of the day and the last three hours of the day. If it is a nice cold day, they will move in the middle of the day. But the first sunrise is when they most often come out of their nests and start chattering.

Hammond said none of his squirrels go to waste. He gives them to an old man at the processor where he takes all of his deer. He said that he has brought the man more than 50 squirrels this season.

The season for gray squirrels and foxes runs from October 1 to March 1 with a limit of 10 per day. There are also seasons for the exclusive use of dogs. Most deer hunters will not look for squirrels on their property until after deer hunting season.

“I seem to be enjoying squirrel hunting more and more,” Hammond said. “It’s going back to the roots of hunting. A lot of us who are hunters, that’s how we started out, going through the woods with our parents and shooting squirrels, missing a lot more than hitting. It’s fun.”

SC Wahoo Series Captains Meeting

The Captains Meeting for the 2021 South Carolina Wahoo Series will be held from 1-4 p.m. on February 6 at the Skull Creek Dockside Restaurant on Hilton Head Island. Participants can fish three days and count their heaviest fish from two of the three fishing days. Fishing begins on February 19 and ends on April 24 with the awards ceremony held on April 25 at Hilton Head Harbor MM 20. Anglers can weigh their catch at Hilton Head Harbor Marina, Toler’s Cove in Mount Pleasant or Georgetown Landing Marina.

First place in the tournament pays $20,000, based on 111 entries. Last year’s series, with 151 entries, was won by the husband-and-wife team of Morris and Tamesha Beck from Johns Island with an aggregate total of two 147.8-pound fish, including a 98.3-pound catch. The Becks earned a total of $63,294.

The captain’s meeting is not mandatory and online registration is available at scwahooseries.com. Entry fee is $600 per boat, with optional categories for Wahoo High Roller, Wahoo Big Fish, Dolphin Big Fish, Tuna Big Fish, Amberjack Big Fish and Daily TWT. There is also the Carolina KDW TWT for anglers fishing the SC Wahoo series, SC Mahi series and SC Fall Classic (king mackerel).

Yacht Club of America

America’s Boating Club Charleston will host boating safety classes February 6-27 at 1376 Orange Grove Road, Charleston. Classes begin at 9 am and end around 4 pm Successful participants earn a boater’s education card from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. The cost is $25 for adults and youth ages 12-18 are free. Call 843-312-2876 or email [email protected].

ST. GEORGE – Legends of abandoned gold mines, hidden caches of Spanish silver, and lost cities of ancient civilizations have long captivated residents of the American West, once drawing thousands of treasure hunters from near and far to explore canyons, remote caves and cliffs.

Now, all Utahns keep the tradition alive by imitating it through annual events like the Summit Rock Hunt or the Utah Treasure Hunt. But a team of local treasure hunters wants to put the old legends to the test — and they’re starting in southern Utah.

Timothy Draper, founder of Treasures in America, is a native Utahn with decades of personal and professional treasure hunting experience. Together with a team of close friends and specialists, Draper has begun production on “Uncharted Expedition” – a web series aimed at investigating stories of lost riches through historical research and real-world exploration.

“We brought all of our talents together and said, ‘Let’s show our story,’” Draper said. “We wanted to show a real treasure hunt. Each episode will focus on a different location with a different treasure or legend. People will see that there are Spanish things here, Native American things, Chinese things, and even possibly ancient Egyptian things in this area.”

It may seem like a stretch, but Draper admits that he hopes to challenge the established narrative, or at least fill in the missing gaps in the historical record.

While the legends explored throughout the first season will be a mix of the familiar and the obscure, the overall goal of the show is twofold: to make new discoveries while maintaining authenticity without misrepresenting the process or the team’s findings.

Shaun Fotheringham, who serves as lead climber and safety specialist, said he also hopes the series will educate local residents about regional history and encourage people to do their own research.

“A lot of people don’t know that the Spanish Trail ran through our backyard,” he said. “They built Old Highway 91 right on top of it.”

There are many stories of Native American tribes clashing with the Spanish when they arrived, Fotheringham said, adding that the Spanish had enough time to hide their treasure or the Native Americans grabbed it and threw it in a cave somewhere.

“There are a lot of stories to that effect in this area, so it’s really exciting for us to dive into it,” he said.

In addition to Draper and Fotheringham, the show draws on the experience and talents of Todd Anderson, miner and prospector; Chuch Zitting, main cameraman; Marc Hoover, detectorist and diver; Antonio Méndez, digger and interpreter; and Josh Blodgett, production manager.

The relatively large cast departs from the standard mold of similar reality shows, Draper said, and goes against the reserved and possessive habits of many real-life fans.

“If you talk to treasure hunters anywhere in the United States, they’ll tell you, ‘I work alone and I like it; that way, when I find the treasure, it’s all mine,’” he said. “I think power comes in numbers. There’s no way I can be an expert in every aspect of what we do.”

While several members of the crew had years of previous amateur experience, others were given their first introduction to the lifestyle through participation in the show.

Zitting, who brought his photography and film talents to the show’s production, was given a crash course in becoming a real-life Indiana Jones while trying to record everyone else in the process.

“Before, I probably missed most things and didn’t even know what they were,” Zitting said. “With these guys, now I can recognize things like, ‘Yeah, that’s Spanish, that’s part of this or that…’ It’s really fun to get the history of all of this.”

So what happens if a team member makes a discovery on the show? As a general rule, it is essential to know what laws govern the recovery of historically significant items before attempting to reclaim or move them.

For the cast and crew of “Uncharted Expedition,” that means careful planning and getting permission from whoever is in charge of each location they visit.

“We have worked with museums and historical societies in the past, and we will work with them in the future,” Anderson said. “The law depends on where you find something: if it is on private land, you arrange it with the owner. Public land can be a bit risky, but you have to work within the system.”

According to the Bureau of Land Management, most artifacts and items over 100 years old are off limits to private collectors. If a visitor finds something of archaeological importance, he must notify the authorities and leave it where she found it.

Draper, Fotheringham and the rest of the team keep tabs on any discoveries made so far after filming the first six episodes. Production began in February 2022 and will continue through the summer and fall, with the first season predominantly in Utah locations and the goal of expanding out of state in subsequent seasons.

“unknown expedition” will premiere on November 25 with new episodes dropping weekly on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, and YouTube. People interested in learning more or following the new show’s progress through its ongoing production can follow the Facebook page of the program.

Whatever clues or riches are revealed week after week, the people behind the new show are excited to share their finds and make their contribution to the long tradition of American treasure hunting.

“We don’t want to take anything away from anyone, we want to add something,” Draper said. “If we make a big discovery and just disappear, we lose our show and we lose credibility. We are planning to share our discoveries with the public and share that lost history, which in a way, I think, is much more important than gold, silver or artifacts.”

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Every year the guys at First Lite reach out to a network of avid mountain hunters to see what products they’d be most excited to see. For a couple of years, I suggested that they put together what I described as a pair of “glass pants.” Basically, I was looking for a set of packable insulated breeches that could be zipped on and off over my regular hunting pants when I got cold. I envisioned something extremely light, really warm, with zippers on the legs.

While I don’t want to overstate my influence on First Lite, I’m thrilled to say that they took my advice, coincidentally or not, and created the Uncompahgre Puffy Pant. These are the perfect insulated pants for backpacking hunters who don’t want the extra weight of heavy insulated pants but don’t like freezing while hiking around camp at night or perching on a cold, windy tit. They roll up smaller than a bottle of Nalgene, weigh just 18 ounces, and sport a water-repellent finish. Also, they dry extremely quickly.

The next time you’re trying to decide between freezing your ass off or wearing your giant insulated Carhartt bibs, pick up a set of Uncompahgre puffer pants. You will feel really happy with yourself.

I’ve written quite a bit about squirrel hunting in the past, and I hope I haven’t bored you. This type of traditional, close-to-the-land hunting strikes a chord with me. I can’t help it; it just does

I think it has to do with where I come from and what shaped me as a versatile wood rat and hunter. We really can’t escape who we are.

I have been a squirrel hunter for most of my life. In some parts of the country, hunters think that’s a strange statement because they didn’t grow up hunting squirrels and it’s not part of their hunting culture. In my part of the world, the southern Appalachian Mountains, there was a time when most young hunters started out chasing squirrels. Squirrel Forest is where we learned to be hunters, gaining all the basic skills needed to chase everything from bushy tails to large kudu, and so can you.

Squirrel hunting was made for first time hunters. You can hunt them almost anywhere – any wooded area is likely to have squirrels. East of the Mississippi, there is an estimated 384 million acres of forest; much of this is on public lands, such as national forests or state wildlife management areas. As for private land, many times landowners will give you permission to hunt squirrels when they couldn’t hunt deer or turkey. As a result, expensive leases are not required to be a squirrel hunter.

In addition to stalking and tactics, the squirrels will teach you other basics that every hunter should know. Learning to find and recognize the food that the game needs is essential for any hunter. If you think about it, much of what a wild animal does every day is walking around and looking for something to eat. This applies to deer, bears, turkeys, and squirrels. The latter will establish a home range, especially if it is centered around a good burrowing tree, usually a large, old tree that has holes for squirrels to crawl into. This is the bombproof haven they’ll go to when all else fails, and it can be their bedroom during bad weather.

Squirrel hunting also doesn’t require a lot of special equipment. If you have a .22 rifle or shotgun and a pair of boots, you’re ready to go squirrel hunting. Camouflage clothing can help, but is not absolutely necessary; you can use your old jeans and a sweatshirt. If you have a turkey vest, they are a great way to carry squirrels and whatever gear you choose to carry, as well as providing a seat cushion. A small game or bird vest is also helpful.

Any .22 rifle that can shoot accurately out to 50 yards will work just fine, as will most shotguns, and you don’t necessarily need three-inch, 12-gauge magnum cartridges; a 20 caliber will work just fine, or even a .410 for younger hunters.

Let me take you back to when I was 10 or 12 years old. On the first day of squirrel season, I jump out of my bed, where I’m sure I didn’t sleep. Getting ready involves nothing more than throwing on blue jeans and a flannel shirt, and maybe grabbing a plate of Cheerios. Unlike the mountain of gear that seems to be necessary nowadays, I have my squirrel pin (it’s for attaching the squirrels I collect and is made by folding a coat hanger) on my belt and some .410 cartridges in my pocket. I follow Dad out the door, he turns on the International Scout and off we go.

This is a day trip close to home, so in a few minutes it stops on an old dirt road and we sit in the pre-dawn darkness. The anticipation, the suppressed emotion, is palpable. We’ve waited months for this, and now it’s here. The realization that the event is here and we are now experiencing it seems, well, almost euphoric.

I look back now, after all these years, and wonder: Was Dad really as excited as I was on those opening mornings? Or was he just playing with a skinny kid who lived to go hunting? It’s just one of a hundred questions I wish I could ask you.

Many of today’s hunters may find it hard to believe that the opening day of squirrel season was ever such a big deal—I mean, as big a deal as the start of deer season. It was not uncommon for the surrounding woods to resound with the hunters’ shots on opening day. I remember Dad saying it sounded like a “young war.” In the past, hordes of hunters would go into the woods in search of a tree-dwelling rodent that could weigh a pound or two.

Why? There are probably several reasons.

Fifty years ago, we certainly had more hunters. Hunting was something that more people considered important, and more young people naturally followed their fathers, uncles and grandfathers to the squirrel forest, more than today. In some areas, like my native southern West Virginia, small game such as squirrels may be the only game in town. Deer were not found in the entire state, and wild turkeys were not in abundance either.

Saturday is the start of squirrel season in West Virginia. It’s already started in some southeastern states, including Georgia and Tennessee, and others will soon follow, with Alabama on board this Saturday. Would you consider an early morning trip to the misty forest this year? Maybe a long time has passed for you, since life and other types of hunting got in the way.

The golden autumn forest, the squirrels and that boy with wide eyes full of wonder are waiting for you.

“The Trail Less Traveled” is written by Larry Case, who lives in Fayette County, W.Va. You can write to him at [email protected].

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The “Roadkill Art” app has changed the image of roadkill from ‘disgusting’ to ‘edible’, with a rating table for members to report on the status of roadkill.

MT PLEASANT, SC, UNITED STATES, June 25, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — It’s exciting to find deer or big game on the side of the road, if it’s fresh, 100 pounds or more of meat can be processed and eaten . It is also exciting to go to the “Roadkill Art” free app with the intention of finding a great cool game 5-10-20 minutes from a specific location already marked in the app. Now it’s that easy to acquire big game, or any game, without a day’s hunting just by checking the “Roadkill Art” app for daily reported kills.

When registering to use the app, a notification will appear that says: Does “Roadkill Art” want to access your location? Choose “Allow Once” or “Allow While Using App” to have a roadkill location marked on the ‘Map’ and ‘List View’. With Uber’s introduction of GEO Tracking, the world has the ability to track a location, now including the “Roadkill Art” app, giving meat lovers fresh meat at their fingertips in an instant.

The best way to report hit-and-runs on the app is to have a cell phone mount on your car’s dashboard facing the front window with the app on the phone’s home page. When approaching something that slows you down, tap the app icon, when the map appears, tap the orange bar at the bottom of the page, the location of the hit is now reported. The app then allows you to take a photo of a hit-and-run victim, up to a 30-second video with voice feedback, and rate the condition of the hit-and-run victim by choosing one of 8 descriptions.

1. I’m not sure if it’s good or not.
2. Claim it, I’ll be back in 30 minutes to pick it up.
3. I just got hit good to be picked up.
4. It is NOT run over, I have only been hunting and sharing.
5. It is small in good condition good for art.
6. I pulled his belly hair, it didn’t come out, good to drink.
7. He is NOT run over, he is alive, he is near the road.
8. Not cool just good for the Vultures.

Download the app for a test report to ensure quick usage before starting that big game:

Apple Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roadkill-art/id1573201332
Google Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innodel.roadkillart

There is a distance icon at the top right of the ‘Map View’ and ‘List View’ pages, it is set to 50 miles. It can be set to 5 miles or 5000 miles, checking what has been reported in the neighborhood or what has been reported as far away as Alaska. If you’re curious as to who got that 1000 pound moose and how the heck they loaded it, explore the videos. Ideally, have a partner run over, one person is driving, the other person has their eyes open for run overs while browsing the app. Teamwork increases the odds of being able to load a great game and keeps you safe when working with any stopped traffic.

Our main roadkill competitor isn’t each other when it comes to getting to roadkill first, it’s the vulture, which the U.S. Wildlife and Natural Resources Centers refer to as the cleanup crew. The vulture rids the landscape of deteriorating carcasses and helps slow the spread of disease and dangerous bacteria. Their stomachs have strong enzymes that remove dangerous toxins after ingesting and digesting roadkill, stopping the spread of chronic kidney disease, botulism, salmonella, and rabies to other animals and people.

https://www.wildlifecenter.org/vulture-facts

Spending a lot of time by the wayside and on the road, the Vulture himself appears as his favorite food, run over. It has been concluded that the vulture is not good to eat, they have a lot of bone and little meat, the meat they have is super full of muscle fiber, which makes it super rubbery to chew and they have a very strong flavor. If you are determined to eat vulture, try them in soup, put them in the meat grinder and make vulture burgers by enhancing the flavor with cheese, bacon or onion.

How many vultures do we deal with when it comes to roadkill? Our bird population figures come from the Christmas Bird Count, a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, conducted annually by volunteer bird watchers. The number of Black Vultures reported in American circles during the 2021-22 season was 86,611. Note that this is not a population number, but an observation number. One day a year the birds are counted, so if we multiply 86,611 x 364 = 31,526,404, we have a minimum of 31 million Black Vultures in the United States. The counts cover a large part of the US land, but not all, we can assume that the number of black vultures is greater. Be quick to report any recent hit games, we want to eat you up before the vultures do.

https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count

Once a hit-and-run report is completed, a location marker instantly appears on the app’s ‘Map’, anyone can click on this location marker and view the exact location, picture and video of the hit-and-run. (see image above) The ‘List View’ is for quickly scrolling through all reported outages. When you come across a roadkill or accidentally hit an animal please report it, even if you take it you will be alerting others to a possible crossing or haunted location, if you don’t take it you have made the game available to someone else even a soup kitchen. , providing them between 100 and 1000 pounds of meat.

“Roadkill Art” invites game lovers and those who wish to give deer, wild boar, moose, moose, squirrels, raccoons, etc., a chance to be part of a unique community. The simple task of reporting road kills in the “Roadkill Art” app can lead to providing meals, delicious game meat meals to many people.

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Imagine the Tour de France peloton sitting on the start line, preparing for three grueling weeks of cycling through the Alps and Pyrenees. Suddenly, a cyclist dismounts his bike, walks into the woods, and reappears astride a 1962 Ducati Scrambler motorcycle. In this strange setting, the Tour allows riders to use whatever they find along the road to help them arrive in Paris. The rider happily speeds ahead of the group on his bike, leaving everyone else in his dust.

This vision appeared in my mind while watching the first episode of OnlyThe ninth season last week. Contestant Jacques Turcotte, a 23-year-old expedition guide from Alaska, was looking for food when he found a spring-loaded animal trap, the kind that Elmer Fudd could gracefully step into while he hunted Bugs Bunny. the Only The rulebook allows contestants to salvage any man-made items they discover, and in previous seasons, contestants have built pontoon boats, fishing lures, and even a makeshift hot tub out of trash. But this was the first time that a Only cast member once found a functional tool ideal for catching rabbits, beavers, and other small game. Turcotte’s find seemed like manna from heaven to the survivors.

(Spoilers ahead.) So you can imagine my surprise while watching episode two when Turcotte became the first person to drop out, returning home after 15 days in the wild. His reasoning was twofold: the daily ritual of killing animals left him emotionally drained and he missed his girlfriend and his dog.

This is not the first time that a Only contestant has struggled with these psychological pressures. In season six, Ray Livingston of Vancouver, Washington broke down in tears after killing and eating the chattering squirrel that had become his only companion in Canada’s Great Slave Lake. “I betrayed him,” Livingston said after devouring the rodent.

And, way back in the third season, school teacher Jim Shields left after only three days in Patagonia because he missed his wife and two children.

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Still, Turcotte’s departure marked one of the biggest twists in the show’s history. Not surprisingly, the television cameras lingered on the trap hanging from a tree while Turcotte packed up his belongings and left.

Catching small game may be the key to winning Season 9. After two episodes, the contestants begin to learn what food sources the coast of Labrador, Canada has to offer. The waterways are full of river trout, but the fish seem to come in two sizes: small and tiny. Plumed grouse flutter through the woods and squirrels jump from tree branches. While contestants have seen mounds of bear droppings, there have been no signs of larger game like elk, deer, or muskox that could provide enough protein for weeks or months.

So I assumed the trap would have given Turcotte an endless supply of squirrel or rabbit meat: the motorcycle in the bike race. But Turcotte’s narrative arc taught me a new lesson about Only: an advantage in eating does not guarantee one in the daily fight against isolation.

Last minute preparations for the desert

The initial episodes of any Only The season has a familiar ebb and flow, and so far season nine is no different. We were introduced to the contestants on the field and then briefly taken to their homes, where we saw previously filmed footage of them preparing to leave and saying goodbye to their loved ones. Karie Lee Knoke, 57, says goodbye to her secluded yurt; Tom Garstang, 35, said goodbye to his girlfriend; Benji Hill, 46, hugged his wife and daughter.

It turns out that these parting scenes are the end of a somewhat hectic period in the life of a Only cast member.

The contestants find out that they have been chosen between one and a half and two months before the departure date. Then, just a few weeks before leaving, they discover their fate.

During this period, they are like college students preparing for an exam. When producers disclose the location, they research the local flora and fauna. They also brush up on their bushcraft skills like crazy and try to master the ones they lack. Nicole Apelian, a contestant on seasons two and five, says that she practiced making fire with a crowbar and began carrying a sharp survival knife with her wherever she went.

“I would put cedar bark in water and spend hours every day working with my knife to make firewood. I would also practice knotting,” says Apelian. “You want these skills to become ingrained, so your muscle memory can take over when you’re tired and hungry.”

Throughout this period, the contestants also fill up on food in an effort to build up valuable fat stores. Jordan Jonas, the eventual winner of season six, knew his wiry body put him at a disadvantage, so he embarked on a harrowing regimen to gain weight after learning he’d been cast.

“I tried drinking those Mass Gainer shakes but I got so fed up,” she told me. “So what I would do is drink half a bottle of Sure, then fill the rest with olive oil and swallow the rest. I did that several times a day.”

Jonas says he gained 25 pounds in just one month.

Woniya Thibeault, who lasted 73 days during season six, took a different tack to prepare her body. Instead of gorging herself, Thibeault followed a ketogenic diet, with intermittent fasting and regular plunges into cold water, to prepare her body and brain for the periods of starvation and frigid temperatures she would face in the Canadian sub-arctic. Then, in recent weeks, Thibeault was eating like crazy.

“A lot of people go out cold, without really going without food for a long period of time, and the feeling catches them off guard,” he says. “The biggest thing I see when I watch the show now is that no one practices going hungry and then having a lot of really physical things to do. That’s the universal part of everyone’s experience.”

Finally, after the contestants leave, they spend a week together at the location before embarking into the woods. During this stretch, they meet the other cast members, get up-to-the-minute information about the location, and practice using the camera equipment. Turns out this last week isn’t always fun.

Apelian said that the cast of seasons two and five spent the week developing friendships and bonds. But Thibeault and Jonas said prickly attitudes and egos swirled within the group during season six.

“It was a weird dynamic,” says Jonas. “You’re trying to make friends, but you’re also in this competition, and it was hard to read if people were really being friendly or just trying to connect with all your information.”

the pioneers

Turcotte’s departure was another difficulty for me, because I cast him as one of the strongest cast members after the initial episode. His experience in ice climbing and arctic expeditions gave him an advantage, as Labrador is covered in snow and ice in winter.

Three other contestants caught my eye as possible favorites: Canadians Juan Pablo Quiñonez and Teimojin Tan, and American Adam Riley. Quiñonez recently completed a 100-day solo survival trial in the frozen Manitoban countryside, an experience that likely primed him for starvation and bitter cold.

Riley may not have the same backcountry skills as the others, but he has experience tolerating isolation: In 2018 he sailed the Pacific Ocean alone, a journey that took 80 days. And then there’s Tan, a doctor specializing in wilderness survival. Tan is also a member of the Canadian Army Reserves, where he was trained in Arctic survival. On paper, he probably has the strongest resume in the world.

But of course therein lies the compelling nature of Only. Survival training, past expeditions, and even recovered animal traps can take a contestant only so far. At some point, everyone wants to go home.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, hunting season for eastern gray squirrels and foxes begins later this month.

Squirrel hunting season runs from May 28 to February 15, 2023. The daily limit for hunting and trapping squirrels is 10 and the possession limit is 20. Hunters must have a valid small game permit or be exempt.

Hunters may use shotguns, rifles, and other legal firearms, as well as archery equipment, slingshots, or atlatls when hunting squirrels. Squirrels can also be harvested with the use of cage-style traps during the season.

The black bass season also begins on May 28 and runs through February 28, 2023. During this time, anglers can catch and hold black bass, largemouth bass, and speckled/Kentucky bass. The MDC says the daily limit for black bass is six; fish must be at least 12 inches long. Catch and release is allowed throughout the year. Some additional regulations may apply in specific waterways or areas. All anglers must have a valid fishing permit or be exempt.

MDC’s Mo Hunting and Mo Fishing mobile apps allow hunters and anglers to keep their licenses and permits accessible through their smartphones.