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Finally found it. Or I should say "roundoak" found it for me.
Squirrel Slam.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photo...2011/11/becoming?photo=4#node-1001458293

One day - maybe soon - I'm going to do this. I'd take a rifle instead but this has to be done. I've already got half of them but I'll do those all over again anyway.

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Thanks for the article. Interesting. I didn't see anything that looked like the big racoon-looking fox squirrels they have down here (Aiken County, SC). There are several color variants--black, gray, orange--they all have a "mask" over the eyes. Someone posted some good pictures of these guys in a thread a year or so ago. I guess they're technically a subspecies?

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Brent, saw this in the campfire forum and posted on it. It is a cool article.


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Ella, I used to live in Aiken, worked there for many more years. There are some pretty cool looking squirrels down there but I'm always surprised that they are such low abundances. All the years I worked in the field on the SRS I saw just a few.

Go down to the coastal islands and they have huge black variants of the Eastern Fox squirrel.


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BrentD,

Have only been here a couple years. There's a bunch of those racoon looking squirrels around but they're mostly protected. Hitchcock woods in Aiken itself is crawling with em. First time I saw one I thought it was a racoon. There's a buncha public land/WMA's up towards the GA border. That's where I've done most of my hunting, squirrels in abundance. Deer hunting's pretty good too. They're small but good enough to eat. And the turkey's are every dang where. Haven't hunted on the SRS land, though I hear it's pretty good. And I've only been towards the coast a few times, hope to have time to make it more this year. It's been fun getting used to the area.

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I never hunted in SC when I was there. I did hunt over in the Athens GA area though.

Down on the SE side of the bomb plant there is an area called "Corkscrew Swamp" if I recall correctly. That might be a good area. I know it used to be open access to hunters at one time. It is outside the secured area. No place you want to be in the summer though - and that's when I was there.

You are right about the turkeys. They are ridiculously abundant down there.


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