Squirrels Alah Charlie

[Stan Hillis]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Just for future reference two ounces of shot ARE NOT NEEDED for squirrels Next time I decide to waylay some I’ll use my 1 1/2 ounce load of #6’s .

When I was a kid I killed enough squirrels to feed an army for the winter with my .410 and 11/16 oz. loads of 6s. Few they were that could escape that load. They had to get to a tall old pine and go to the top to be safe. Oaks, pecans and hickorys didn't get tall enough to protect them.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

When I was a kid I killed enough squirrels to feed an army for the winter with my .410 and 11/16 oz. loads of 6s. Few they were that could escape that load. They had to get to a tall old pine and go to the top to be safe. Oaks, pecans and hickorys didn't get tall enough to protect them.

When I was young I was only allowed to shoot squirrels with a 22 single shot . And if I didn’t shoot them in the head my grandfather would tell me about it

[Brush Buster]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

When I was young I was only allowed to shoot squirrels with a 22 single shot . And if I didn’t shoot them in the head my grandfather would tell me about it

If that 22 would have been in my hands and we were planning on Squirrel for dinner , we would have been mighty hungry !

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Russ Jackson

If that 22 would have been in my hands and we were planning on Squirrel for dinner , we would have been mighty hungry !

Grandfather was right beside me the first time I plunked a deer . Had my brand new 700 BDL 243 WIN with a Frank Special Bushnell Scopechief IV 2.5-8x on top , doe was about fifty yards away and he told me shoot her a little bit above between the eyes . As he was almost finished saying it the gun boomed the deer dropped and the hole was where he told me to put it . Granted he’d carried me all over creation that summer shooting groundhogs with my nice new 243 shooting Remington 100 grain CorLokt factory loads .

[Researcher]

This Remington always looked like the proper squirrel gun to me --

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