Plumb Squirrely for Squirrels
When I was a kid, we had one of those homemade 55-gallon-drum barbeque pits, and on many-a-Sunday growing up, we’d have some great family barbeques. The barbeque meat was usually pretty standard fare, but one day, a friend of ours came over with some squirrels and threw them on the pit. I had never heard of anyone eating squirrel. I remember lifting the lid and seeing them on the expanded metal cooking surface and thinking they looked like rats. I tried one, but didn’t like it. Then, the friend started talking about the great squirrel hunt he’d had back home the weekend before. Where was home? East Texas.
In 44 counties in East Texas, squirrel hunting is a huge deal. There’s even a special season, with a bag limit and everything, which starts on Oct. 1 and runs through Feb. 22. There’s a Youth-Only season Sept. 26-28 and an additional opportunity to hunt them from May 1-31. In case you’re wondering about the other 210 counties in the state, there’s a season for them too – it’s year-round with no bag limit.
.png)
