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The author shows off a pair fox squirrels (black color phase) and one gray killed with a shotgun near the Mississippi River. The black phase it more prevalent in the Delta Counties.

Bushytail bonanza – Find the food and find late-season squirrels

February 1, 2019 David Hawkins

Hit the hardwoods and finish your hunting season with a limit of Mississippi squirrels. […]

October is a great time for small game hunters. Squirrel season opened Oct. 1 and rabbit season opens on Oct. 13.

Small game: Squirrel first, then rabbits

October 8, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

October is a big month for small-game enthusiasts, with the opening of the statewide squirrel season on Oct. 1 and the statewide rabbit season on Oct. 13, giving both several weeks of hunting before the opening of gun season on deer on Nov. 17. […]

Young Jack Allen enjoys a successful moment with the family’s squirrel dog Honey Girl on an October hunt last year.

Puttin’ on the dog

October 1, 2018 Michael O. Giles

Hunting squirrels with dogs offers hunters an opportunity to get in the woods and to sample Mississippi small-game hunting. […]

Squirrel season opens on Monday (Oct. 1) statewide in Mississippi.

Squirrel season opens statewide

October 1, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi’s squirrel hunters can start chasing the bushy-tailed quarry statewide on Monday, and results from the first five days of the youth season show it could be spotty. […]

Spring squirrel hunting is a real treat for many Mississippi hunters who take advantage of the 2-week season.

Is May too hot for squirrels?

May 15, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi gets its fourth-annual spring squirrel season in Mississippi in 2018, but it has yet to lure many sportsmen to participate, with most citing “too hot to hunt” as the reason. […]

Hunters, old and young alike — Taylor Harris, Shannon McMullen and Parker McMullen try to locate a squirrel that’s been treed.

Damp, cloudy and gray — perfect squirrel hunting day

January 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

While any day spent squirrel hunting in January and February is better than one spent at work or at home, some are definitely better than others according to veteran hunters Joe Shumaker and Terry Fletcher.

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Treed dogs focus their attention up the tree, barking loudly. The ruckus usually keeps the squirrel frozen in the tree until the hunters arrive.

Good training makes for a good squirrel dog

January 15, 2018 Jerald Horst

Squirrel dogs are made, not born according to Joe Shumaker and Terry Fletcher. Squirrel dogs have to learn everything. […]

Youth-oriented squirrel hunts will take place at Barnett Reservoir in February.

New youth squirrel opportunity set

January 11, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

Barnett Reservoir officials gave final approval in November to open lands below the dam, adjacent to the spillway, for youth-oriented squirrel hunts in February. It will be the first time that squirrels have been legally hunted in the area in more than 50 years.

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