Module 8 of 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.
Best after: Tactics: How to Hunt Squirrels Weapons, Marksmanship & The Upward Shot Field Care, Processing & The Table
Lessons
5 lessons in this module · 41 across the path
- Squirrel Dogs: The Feist & Cur Tradition Hunting treeing squirrels with feists and curs, a distinct Southern method and how the dog works a tree.
- Squirrel-Dog Training Basics (Overview) A high-level look at starting and steadying a treeing dog: prey drive, treeing, "look up," and steadiness, orientation, not a full manual.
- Late-Season: Hunting Dens & Caches When mast is gone and leaves are down: shifting to den trees, cache-feeding ground, and the cold-weather pattern. Assumes primer: weather-hunt-timing.
- Targeting Fox Squirrels Hunting the bigger, scattered fox squirrel in its open pine/oak ground, with respect for its lower density and SC restrictions. VERIFY status/WMA closures with SCDNR.
- Mixed-Bag & Squirrel-Plus Days Combining squirrel with other open small game (e.g., rabbit) on one outing, and the gear and season overlap that allows it. VERIFY concurrent seasons/limits with SCDNR.