Recent content by jspears80

Thanks a lot, I appreciate the info.

Yep, I am excited. Is a shotgun too much for squirrel, as far as peppering the meat? I was going to bring an air rifle but my nerves prefer the shotgun.

I wanted to hunt squirrel (or rabbit if I'm lucky) in addition to fishing for meals while I am there. I don't have a deer tag and the only other big game up there is black bear. While that would be exciting, there is no way I could pack out a bear where I'm going. But I'm after small game in...

I use to backpack in the Ansel Adams wilderness to Gem Lake as a kid on the weekends and even further on week long trips. I just started hunting in San Diego and have been scouting with little success so far, but NP it's as expected. My recent idea is to hunt in the Sierras. If I remember...

That makes sense. I figure then stick around bodies of water (if any). It would be nice to find a good dense forest area in SoCal but I don't think I can get that until I go north of the Sequoias, I think.

We did try and look for tracks and we did see maybe a deer track, but we are still novice when it comes to tracking. I am just curious why we weren't seeing squirrels on trees and rabbits running around. When I walk around in Julian (granted I can't hunt there), I see stuff everwhere. I just...

So my friend and I just started hunting and took a 2 day 1 night trip to Pine Wilderness south of Pine Valley. We didn't use a trail and backpacked straight through a canyon. The entire time we did not see any animals, not even lizards, or ANYTHING even on the trees or ground scurrying off. I...