Squirrel hunting is dear to my heart. It was how I learned to hunt as a boy, with a .410. I started selling squirrels for a quarter apiece. My shells cost 12 cents each, so if I made a one shot kill I made 13 cents. It was crucial to not need a second shot, to stay in the black.
When I got hold of a .22 I thought I'd get rich, relatively speaking, for a 11 year old.
Never went back to a shotgun for squirrels.
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