L. C. Smith and the rock squirrel
 

Yesterday while shooting clay targets at my house with a 1906 L. C. Smith 12 gauge Grade 2 I happened to notice a rock squirrel sitting on the edge of a shed roof behind my garage. I told my brother and asked if it looked like a squirrel to him. All he said was shoot it. I shot with the full choke of the L. C. and the squirrel simply fell to the ground. When I retrieved him he was quite dead. Today while at the house I measured the range and it was 41 yards. I thought that was a great testimony for the full choke barrel of the gun using Remington STS Light Handicap shells with 1 1/8th ounces of number 8 shot.

Dennis

good shooting dennis that kinda looks like what we call a fox squirl.but in some way they are not the same this is my first rock squirl to see... i may have to borrow that good shooting lc smith if i ever hunt in tall timber..ha maybe somebody knows if a rock squirl and a fox squirl are the same..good to see what you look like... charlie

Thanks, Charlie. Nobody would eat these squirrels out here. They are bigger than the tiny Richardson's ground squirrel; probably about the size of your Fox squirrel or maybe the same size as a grey squirrel I hunted and ate as a kid in New York State. This darn thing is probably part of a family of the little critters that burrowed into my garage. I thought the gun must pattern pretty well to have killed him so quickly with the number 8 shot.

Dennis