Features
Give Mississippi squirrel hunting a try this month
Mississippi is a hotbed for squirrel hunting. Take advantage of deer hunters leaving the woods to chase squirrels in February. […]
Small Game Xtra
Newsletters
Mississippi bushytails had better beware
Mississippi’s No. 1 small-game animal remains the squirrel, although hunting pressure continues to plummet. […]
Newsletters
May offers more bushytails
Jimmy Ray Barnes, a squirrel-hunting enthusiast from Pascagoula, will be hunting during Mississippi’s 2020 spring squirrel season between May 15 and June 1. […]
Features
Target creekbottoms for Mississippi squirrels
Squirrels are a great way to finish out hunting season once deer are off the menu in Mississippi. Here’s some tips on where to hunt and what to use. […]
Newsletters
Mississippi squirrel hunting takes off in February
Mississippi squirrel hunters can’t wait for February to arrive. Mississippi’s season runs through Feb. 28. The limit is eight per day, per hunter. […]
Apex Predator
Black squirrels with a bow
The author explains how he’s taken black fox squirrels along the Mississippi River and surrounding bottomland hardwoods with a bow. […]
Features
Bushytail bonanza – Find the food and find late-season squirrels
Hit the hardwoods and finish your hunting season with a limit of Mississippi squirrels. […]
Featured
Small game: Squirrel first, then rabbits
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. […]
Featured
Is May too hot for squirrels?
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. […]
Featured
Bushytails best beware
Mississippi’s No. 1 small-game animal remains the squirrel, although hunting pressure continues to plummet. The number of squirrel hunters in the state has dropped by half over the past 50 years. […]
Sidebars
A perfect start for young hunters
After Joe Shumaker and Terry Fletcher buckled tracking collars on their dogs, Shumaker lined up the youngsters and gave them a short safety lesson. […]
Features
Dog day afternoon (or morning)
The woods were drab, leafless and gray. The bare tree trunks and limbs were gray. The dead leaves underfoot were gray. The sky was heavily overcast with uniformly gray clouds. […]