I was 14 when Dad bought me my first rifle...a Marlin 39A. For the remainder of my high school years I put lots of squirrels on the table - good eatin'!! And the car antennas of all the hunters would fill up with squirrel tails.
Now I'm surrounded by city squirrels, they tear up the garden, I can't shoot 'em in the city, and I wouldn't eat one on a bet. Who could guess what kind of city crap they have eaten. Those country squirrels lived on acorns, nuts, and whatever seeds and grains they might find...made for real tasty game. You'd pay premium for livestock fed like that.
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Jim Frye
Des Moines, Iowa
U.S. Army
1969-1972
-Berlin
-Vietnam
-White Sands