A few years ago I cooked some squirrels in the crock pot, and they must have been only eating hickory nuts for a while. They tasted like I had put a dash of liquid smoke in with then while they were cooking.
A buddy is coming up from Alabama next week, and while I don't think he will be hunting, I'm sure he can show me an easier way to skin them. He like squirrel hunting so much he has a Feist.