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mullet:
  I save them up till I have enough. We have a small game season that runs from the end of Dec. to Feb 1. I usually hunt with a 22-410 O/U then. But we can shoot small game from Sept till then during any of the different seasons.

ballista:
oh i ment the guts- haha ;D but that season's alot longer than illinois, its august to march, thats just off the top of my head though. so, i was worried from deer experiences, the crap hole. is it something to really worry about, do you cut around it, ect?

mullet:
 Push it out with your finger ???

Hillbilly:
Yeah, get the guts out as fast as you can, especially if it's warm weather. You want to get the meat cooling down as fast as you can. Bear Grylls is an idiot in my opinion-he does all that fear factor TV crap just for the shock factor. If he had a filet mignon in his pocket and was standing next to a clean, cold spring  he would still eat a handful of slugs and night crawlers and wash them down with a bottle of warm pee. He does everything about exactly opposite of what you would actually want to do in a real survival situation. Then his crew airlifts him out every evening in a helicopter to a resort hotel to spend the night. If you want to see something more realistic, watch Survivorman. I usually skin and fix squirrels like KnightD said unless I want to save the hide, then I split them down the inside of the legs and down the belly to the chin. They're also good if you take the meat off the bones, run it through a meat grinder, and make squirrel tacos. Or like you said, just roast 'em over some hot coals. There is a world of difference between a youg squirrel and an old tough one, too. Fry or roast the young ones and parboil the old leathery ones.

ballista:
 i gotta agree with you, the canadian's alot better,  bear grylls shows you alot of things, but you kinda have the suspition after he's done filming, he's got a turkey dinner waiting for him. would you put them in salt water and brine them? thats what i did with a couple carp this year, believe it or not they were Amazing. i was thinking about the tails as maybe string silencers, but it would be kinda hard to put in the string-but it would look cool on a selfbow. do you use blunt tips often? i've heard alot of good things, but i've never used them on anything smaller than a groundhog (which was a monster, could possibly be why) thanks again, BOW SEASON STARTS TOMARROW!!!

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