Come to think of it, my older brother used a single shot bolt action .22 for squirrels when we were kids. I had a youth Sears .410 with the side button opener. My brother's bolt action was probably a Sears model, too. We could not afford much beyond the Sears guns when I was a kid. They worked just fine.
My Pop used a J. C. Higgins .22 automatic, the one with the wood wrap around stock (whatever that's called). He was deadly on squirrels. Before I could carry a gun (up to about age 6), I was his "dog" and made the squirrels move to his side of the tree so he could head shoot them. He would only use short hollow point ammo. Try and get that today!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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