KTOG Varmint Hunters ?

OK, Sounds great Lop.

Below are the TN small game seasons.  Please note, that I will not eat everything on the list below

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Squirrel (fox, red, gray) Aug. 28 Feb. 28  limit 10  
Spring Squirrel (2011) May 14 June 12 limit 10  
Grouse (closed W. of I-65) Oct. 9 Feb. 28 limit 3
Rabbit Nov. 13 Feb. 28 limit 5  
Quail  Nov. 13 Feb. 28 limit 6  
Armadillo Year Round   No Limit
Beaver Year Round   No Limit
Coyote Year Round   No Limit
English Sparrow Year Round   No Limit
Groundhog Year Round   No Limit
Nutria Year Round   No Limit
Pigeon Year Round   No Limit
Starling Year Round   No Limit
Striped Skunk Year Round   No Limit
Bobcat* Nov. 19 Feb. 28 limit 1 per day
Fox** Nov. 19 Feb. 28 No Limit
Mink Nov. 19 Feb. 28 No Limit
Muskrat Nov. 19 Feb. 28 No Limit
Otter*** Nov. 19 Feb. 28 No Limit
Spotted Skunk Nov. 19 Feb. 28 No Limit
Weasel Nov. 19 Feb. 28 No Limit
Raccoon & Opossum Sunset Sep. 17 Sunrise Feb. 28 limit 2 per person per night
(night is defined as one 24-hour period beginning at sunset)

Use to do some sorta varmint shooting in my youth, back in the 60s. Dad would take me to watermelon and grain fields to shoot pests eating the farmer's crops. I used a .22 Hornet or .22 mag most of the time with shots limited to under 200 yds, they worked. My usual targets were yotes, jackrabbits, and hogs. Couldn't do much tothe big haogs with those guns, but we tried. Dad didn't get a .243 till '69. Most of the time we were shooting at night with spotlights.

Don't do much varmint hunting now except fot this pesky crittter. It is one of the main munchers of deer corn. They are abundant and travel in packs around here. Use to be just a pest, but I heard there is actually a season and limit on them now. We get alot of them coming in the yard during wet years. We have oaks in the yard and they come and eat acorns. They give the dogs hell, and the males challenge them to fight. They can cause some damage with their teeth.

They are in season all year in my yard. The males would back our dogs up to the door and snap their teeth at hem. So, we got more dogs. It is better now. I oftern get invites to go thin the critters at hunting camps. I tell them. "I don't want them and don't eat them." I just shoot them in my yard. Some people eat them. Males smell too bad. Females and young ones are o.k.

The javelina or white collared peccary. These critters are about the limit of my varmint hunting now. We have been shooting them with the .22 mags and buckshot now just to get rid of them. They will go down at close ranges with a solid hit from a .22 lr. I have taken one with a .22 pistol and a .38 snub. Wife got a big male one year with her Ruger MKII.



Wife and I saw a big male coming home the other night. It was an older male. He was nose to nose with one of the labs near the house. The other labs were there also. The car scared him off before I could get the .38 out of hte glove box.



Nasty set of chompers on the large males. This is a young one without the long pointed chompers int he front. Vicious dogs too. See how they gang up on a dead animal. ;D