If I were to get back into sniping fat fox squirrels again, it would be with this puppy. Marlin 39A with a killer scope that is very crisp and bright. I bought this new in 1973 in Lansing Michigan. I shot it with iron sights for many years and did very well until my eyesight went fuzzy and I couldn't see the rear sight well enough. With this scope, it will really reach out there with the stunning accuracy that Marlins are well known for. It's ridiculously easy to keep this within an about 1.5" at 100yds, and the scope has a BDC system.

Now that's a "head shot only" rifle!

The most fun I ever had chasing squirrels was with my .36 cal. long rifle. I'd use 25 grs. of FFFg behind a patched 000 buckshot, and head shoot them only. A friend gave me a bag of them he had bought bulk and, as I recall, the buckshot measured about .350". With a good , thick pillow ticking patch they shot "minute of squirrel head". But, with .355" cast balls and teflon coated ticking that little gun is a tack driver.

Very satisfying and relaxing.

Flintlock rifle hunting squirrels from a jon boat floating down amongst the big oak trees that lined the banks of the Contoocook River in central NH was always a dream of mine. I'd think about doing that every time I went duck hunting. But never made it happen.

Chris, surely there is a SC river that would lend itself to a float hunt? Take the fly rod and some poppers and pick up a few bream, too.

Missouri's Ozark streams lend themselves to this, but here in the north part of the state, there's not much in the way of float streams outside of the oversized Missouri and Mississippi.

Oh definitely some nice squirrelly streams near us...great idea!

There are many, but the problem with many is that the banks on both sides are privately owned, and unless the squirrel falls out of the tree into the stream so you can retrieve it from the boat it would be illegal to get out on the bank to pick it up. I've run into that issue when jump shooting ducks from my camo fiberglass kayak on creeks and rivers here.

Take one of those telescoping golf ball retrievers with ya :rolleyes:!

Individual state property laws are very interesting.

They are, indeed. In GA, as long as a stream is deemed "navigable", it can be fished and hunted by the public as long as you are in a boat, as described earlier. I have a copy of a letter from the Corps of Engineers that states that a particular "creek", which I drift for ducks, is navigable, from where it empties into the Savannah River, upstream for many miles to a certain bridge, above which the landowners can control the hunting and fishing on it.