[2bikebill]

Grey squirrels not popular round here -  just rats who live in trees. They do a massive amount of damage, and we shoot em, same as any destructive vermin.

[olhogrider]

Grey squirrels not popular round here -  just rats who live in trees. They do a massive amount of damage, and we shoot em, same as any destructive vermin.

How do they taste? I thought guns were outlawed in Jolly Old.

[2bikebill]

I don't eat em, yet, but times is getting hard....... 
Guns aren't outlawed here, but you need a licence and secure metal storage. I doubt you'll find a farmer here who hasn't got a couple of shotguns. That said, I knock em down with a high velocity .22 air rifle, for which no licence is required.

[Ice]

How do they taste?

 Depends on their diet, the time of year and the recipe.
The flavor can range from kind of bland to veal like.
Textures can run from a bit stringy to chicken like.

Organic lean protein grown in the wild without artificial hormones and anti biotics.

Makes a person think twice.

[iowarider]

I was riding a bit heavier of a motorcycle, Honda spirit 750. It was getting toward dusk and a raccoon came ruining from the shoulder of the road. To close to brake, running about 55-60, so griped hard and held on for the bump, this thing was 20 to 30 lbs. I felt nothing, but hear a loud POP, though full face helmet with ear plugs. Next day going back to work there was this big headless raccoon.  If that doesn't gross you out, let me tell you about the wild turkey that flew across the road and I ducked behind the windshield. He missed me but the gross part was what I had in my, well we just wont talk about that.   

[Maturin]

I always wondered about overrun hedgehogs. Hell, they´re not very fast - it´s possible to hit them with a car on the street´s frindge, but why at center?
Once I drove behind some BMW 3 with a couple of our auspicious offspring onboard. At a distance I could see a big hedgehog crossing the street, the driver in front of me obviously did too, accellerated, aimed, altered course and ran right over the animal.
At the next redlight I pulled up beside him, still pissed, and asked him if that´s the kind of fun he´s at. He grinned at me, and so did all his crew, and told me to care about my own bussiness. He added an "asshole" at the end and roared away.
And there I stood. Pissed, in the middle of the street and totally helpless against such a kind of ignorance. What could I have told him to alter his opinion?
For sure it´s stupid to ask such a question.

[2bikebill]

You can't reason with brainless arseholes. I was following a car from which was thrown the leftovers and wrappers from about five Kentucky take-aways, strewn along a beautiful country road. I followed these filthy bastards and eventually confronted them, for which I received a tirade of foul language and a show of fingers.
 Teenage yobs - I'd gas the feckin lot of em....  

[Andy]

A local paper did a test with artificial animals.  The results were disturbing, to say the least.  As if the very high percentage of people who would go out of their way to hit assorted animals, wild and domestic, weren't bad enough, some would even put themselves and others at dangerous risk to do so, crossing centre lines into blind corners, etc. 

People suck.  I've always said so. 

[bob bezin]

years ago in chicago some trash flew out the window of a car with the back seat full of early teen girls. i was on my bike and picked it up in the stop and go traffic.at the next stoplight i threw it back thru their open window and yelled "don't litter" looking embarresed they rolled up the window.   just a day in the life.

[Andy]

years ago in chicago some trash flew out the window of a car with the back seat full of early teen girls. i was on my bike and picked it up in the stop and go traffic.at the next stoplight i threw it back thru their open window and yelled "don't litter" looking embarresed they rolled up the window.   just a day in the life.

Much as I've been tempted to get into it with car drivers on this and other subjects, I make it a policy never to deliberately piss off people who can kill me with a flick of the wrist, no matter how much they deserve it.  I'm just a coward that way.

[iowarider]

Much as I've been tempted to get into it with car drivers on this and other subjects, I make it a policy never to deliberately piss off people who can kill me with a flick of the wrist, no matter how much they deserve it.  I'm just a coward that way.[/color]

Right their with you on that. That and when pulled over by the police, always told my 3 boys, "never wise to piss off a guy with a gun strapped to his hip"

[ROVERMAN]

I had a cute bunny fly out in front of me from the left the other day,a flick of the wrist and the sound of the Goldie made him reverse course in the most unnatural way i have ever seen in my life! I can just imagine how many little pellets he lost over that one once his arse stopped puckering!
Robert and REnfield in MI.

[single]

Out riding the other day with some new friends and a squirrel ran in front of the bike in front of me,had it made,missed the front tire,did the u-turn from hell,straight into the back tire.Squished.
Squirrel is quite good if it is first cooked,then fried.Don't taste like chicken.Pretty much need a good dog to tree 'em,they will cut off leaves so you watch for that,pretty apt to bark or scold ya,can't seem to hold their tail still.They aint worth the effort for me anymore.Had an in-law that used to fill his freezer with them.Hunted them all the time.Pretty weird.

[iowarider]

squirrels in my area are the beginner game to teach safety and hunting skills. I know some don't think hunting is right, but its about the only way to keep a deer heard in check. I also believed the saying, better to take you kids hunting then to be hunting your kids" At least it worked for my four boys.