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Learning Path · Squirrel

Hunt the Piedmont, one ridge at a time.

The perfect entry hunt — accessible, abundant small game that sharpens marksmanship, woodsmanship, and field-to-table skills.

8 modules 41 lessons 3 tiers
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Stage 1 of 3

Foundations

Before the woods: the mindset, the law, staying safe, and the biology and senses that drive everything else.

3 modules · 14 lessons

  1. Module 1 Foundations

    Know Your Quarry: Squirrel ID, Biology & Behavior

    Identify the squirrels of the SC Piedmont and understand the biology and daily/seasonal behavior that make a squirrel huntable, the knowledge every later tactic rests on.

    0 / 7 7 lessons
  2. Module 2 Foundations

    Food & The Mast Calendar

    Learn what squirrels eat through the SC Piedmont fall and winter and how their location tracks the mast crop, the single biggest predictor of where to hunt.

    0 / 5 5 lessons
  3. Module 3 Foundations

    SC Squirrel Seasons & Regulations

    Place squirrel inside the SC regulatory framework the primer taught, the long generous season, the daily bag limit, and the WMA and fox-squirrel specifics, and build the habit of verifying them.

    0 / 2 2 lessons

Stage 2 of 3

Core Skills

The field craft — reading sign, scouting, weapons and gear, the shot, recovery, and care of the animal.

4 modules · 22 lessons

  1. Module 4 Core

    Scouting & Reading Squirrel Sign

    Find squirrels by reading the woods, locating productive mast stands and the cuttings, sounds, dens, and dreys that reveal active trees.

    0 / 5 5 lessons
  2. Module 5 Core

    Tactics: How to Hunt Squirrels

    Put the core squirrel hunting methods to work, the slow still-hunt, the feed-tree sit, hunting by ear, and the two-hunter circle, the heart of the hunt and a stealth/woodsmanship skill-builder.

    0 / 5 5 lessons
  3. Module 6 Core

    Weapons, Marksmanship & The Upward Shot

    Choose and run the right squirrel weapon, the classic .22, the shotgun, or an air rifle, and master the meat-saving head shot and the safety nuance unique to shooting up into trees.

    0 / 6 6 lessons
  4. Module 7 Core

    Field Care, Processing & The Table

    Turn a squirrel into excellent table fare, the glove-skinning technique, clean gutting, parasite awareness, cooling in SC heat, and cooking matched to the animal's age.

    0 / 6 6 lessons

Stage 3 of 3

Advanced

Once the fundamentals hold: seasonal tactics and the long game of managing land, habitat, and population.

1 modules · 5 lessons

  1. Module 8 Advanced

    Advanced & Specialist Squirrel Hunting

    Go beyond the basics, hunting with a treeing dog, working late-season dens and caches, pursuing fox squirrels, and stacking squirrel into a mixed-bag day.

    0 / 5 5 lessons