Umarex Big Squirrel Challenge Breaks Records

For the second straight year, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Umarex Big Squirrel Challenge broke attendance records with 186 teams weighing squirrels at one of 12 weigh-in stations across the state.
“We had four locations with more than 20 teams participating this year,” Eric Maynard, AGFC assistant chief of education, said. “Fred Berry Crooked Creek Nature Center in Yellville had 37 teams show up for the event.”
Maynard said he’s excited about the continued growth of the event and sees possibilities to expand it even more with the addition of a “gray squirrel only” category in the future.
“We split the categories into youth teams and adult teams weighing either all fox squirrels or mixed bags that must include at least one gray squirrel,” Maynard said. “This year we just didn’t have that many bags of all fox squirrels weighed in. In fact, four of the 12 weigh-in stations didn’t have a three-squirrel limit of fox squirrels turned in.” Read more








