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Post by squirrelhunter on Jul 30, 2017 15:26:48 GMT -5
Marlin 25N .22lr.
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Post by deadeer on Jul 30, 2017 22:40:27 GMT -5
Have a battery of choices. Normally Marlin 25 22lr, sometimes Winchester 74 22lr, Marlin 25m 22mag, Savage 17 17hmr, or new Ruger 10/22 that is a tack driver! All my rimfires shoot incredibly well.
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Post by esshup on Aug 1, 2017 19:28:49 GMT -5
Probably the same as last year - Kimber .17 MachII
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Post by wesb81219 on Aug 1, 2017 20:26:05 GMT -5
Winchester 20ga, mossberg 500 12ga for early season. Marlin 17 hmr for when the leaves are gone.
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Post by dbd870 on Aug 2, 2017 7:08:20 GMT -5
Winchester 20ga, mossberg 500 12ga for early season. Marlin 17 hmr for when the leaves are gone. Shotgun early, rifle late - that's how I do it too.
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Post by firstwd on Aug 2, 2017 20:29:36 GMT -5
Rifle the whole season, .17 HMR for me.
I did acquire and Mossberg bolt action 16ga with a poly choke last week that I need to make some meat with. I'll have to look at the model number and take it apart to see if I has a serial number so I can figure out how old it is. Nice little gun and patterns fantastic.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 2, 2017 20:56:23 GMT -5
I don't squirrel hunt much. When I do I use my Gamo or my Benjamin air rifle around the house, the H&R 20 gauge if I'm actually going out hunting.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Aug 3, 2017 20:40:57 GMT -5
Mrs.Squirrelhunter will be using her new Marlin XT-22 she bought today,I just need to put a scope on it for her.
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Post by HighCotton on Aug 6, 2017 19:19:52 GMT -5
A good friend gave me this Mossberg Lil Plinkster since he thought it would be a good option for my grandsons in the future. He had purchased it a few years back from Dick's and topped it with one of the Field & Stream 4x32 scopes. As some of you know, the purchase point on this rifle makes it one cheap trigger stick and a pretty sad scope at best! I bore sighted it and these are the first 10 rounds from 15 yards! Man, was I surprised! Cheap Remington Thunderbolt ammo. Leaning against a tree! Nothing special. Just wanted to see how the rifle would perform. I'd read some poor reviews, but this was surprising. So, I decided to "torture" the dude a bit after cycling a few mags. Bumpfired a few more mags! Crazy as it sounds, I could not make her fail. No failures of any sort! I had so much fun, I'm going with this for my initial weapon of choice this year! Looks like the grandsons will have to wait!
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Post by moose1am on Aug 6, 2017 21:27:49 GMT -5
I don't squirrel hunt much. When I do I use my Gamo or my Benjamin air rifle around the house, the H&R 20 gauge if I'm actually going out hunting. I use my little Walther's CPSport CO2 semi auto .177 caliber air pistol for squirrels in the bird feeder on my back deck. If they are new squirrels they don't realized that when I raise the window in the kitchen that I can shoot them from inside the house. I get one shot and after than they learn that when the windows start coming up and they see me though the open window that it's time to jump off the deck rail and run for their life up into a nearby tree. I made the mistake about 15 to 20 years ago of planting a climbing vine by the base of the Ash Tree next to my house. The ivy is now up in the top of this big tree and it gives the squirrels the perfect hiding place in this big tree right next to my house. Once they reach this tree they are hidden from view. They can sit up there and look down at the bird feeder on the back deck and know when I refill the feeder with sunflower seeds. This one squirrel even figure out how to avoid the trip mechanism on my life animal trap that I strapped to the top of the deck rail. I saw the squirrels and raccoons walking along the top of the deck rails to get to the feeder at the corner of two deck rails. I nailed a little wood platform there and sit the feeder on that platform at the corner of the deck. There is a bush next to this corner which the birds can land on and hide in if a hawk comes around. I've seen a hawk fly by and take a dove so fast that I could not see anything but a blur and then a few dove feathers floating in the air. The hawk took the dove off the platform and was off again so fast that I could not hardly believe what I saw. Another hawk tried chasing some of the smaller birds though the bush and though some of my barberry bushes along the front of the back deck. I got some nice still photo's of that hawk. When my Gamo Air Rifle was working properly and the scope had not be jarred to the point it would not work anymore I used it to shoot black birds out of the trees. It was about a 40 yard shot to the trees in the back of the yard. Beyond the back yard was an empty lot with a couple of huge oak trees on the property. One time I had about 5 or 6 dead starlings that were laying in the snow in the back yard after I took them out. The hawks arrived and feed on the dead birds. I have a few shots of that event too. But right now both the Gamo Air Rifles are out of action. One has a bad scope still on it. The other (my newest one) has a new Walthers air rifle scope on it but it's not zeroed in yet. The view out the back of the house has changed the two oak trees were cut down (got pictures and video of that happening) and several new apartment houses are there. So I can't shoot out the back window in that direction anymore. So I now just use the less powerful air pistols and the trap. The one squirrel that I'm trying to shoot has escaped me several times now. And he jumps over the trip plate in the Hava-heart livea animal trap when he runs though the cage. So I've got a new trick up my sleeve. I'm going to feed him some peanuts for a while and get him hooked on peanuts. Then I'm going to lure him/her into the trap with peanuts. But I'm going to glue the peanuts to the trip mechanism so he will have to touch the trip plate and set the trap doors to close. The last time I caught a pesky squirrel he was pretty upset and fighting mad. He too was a tricky one who would avoid the trip plate mechanism in the trap. He too would run though the trap's two open doors where the trap was up on the deck rail and strapped in place on the top deck rail. If I lived in an area without any homes within a mile or two I'd get the 10/22 and load some CCI Stinger 1600+ FPS in it and shoot these little fox squirrels in the head. I don't have a shot gun anymore but that would work too if they got up in the tree off the ground. The squirrels that I've shot were all at the base of the tree or up on my deck in the bird feeder. so I was shooting at them at a down angle with the ground in the background. I would never fire the 22 gun powered type shell in my neighborhood as it's got too many people and other property around my house. But the pellet guns are no loud and have a much lower velocity and much less mass in the little .177 cal lead or alloy pellets. They loose their velocity quickly and are not going to do much harm after 60 yards.
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Post by savagehead on Aug 13, 2017 10:15:14 GMT -5
Got my CZ 452 dialed in with the new glass...Zeiss conquest 3x9x40 Rimfire....I am ready!
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Post by TolusD on Sept 2, 2017 16:32:30 GMT -5
If I can find a place to go, I want to take my HK 416 .22 out. I finally got the trigger worked out and it's a tack driver now. There are some monster reds in my neighborhood, but I live in the city. I picked up a case of Aguila Sniper Subsonic rounds though. I couldn't find them for years but they're available again. 60 grains of lead moving just fast enough to cycle the action in the HK. I took many a squirrel with them out of my old 10/22.
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Post by jajwrigh on Sept 8, 2017 22:29:18 GMT -5
20 gauge NEF single shot packed with 1oz of #5s. Perfect squirrel setup!
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Post by jackryan on Sept 8, 2017 22:43:05 GMT -5
for the bushytail opener? trapper...ya gonna let some powder go!!?? I haven't even gone yet but first time I go out squirrel, rabbit, any small game appropriate for it I always take my pops old 410 first day. That thing was passed from an uncle's brother to my uncle to my dad and me and my brother both had our own first hunting and shooting days with it. Now all my nephews and son and wife even have had their first shotgun experiences with it. Can't beat it about every family farm house in Indiana probably has a 410 sitting in a corner somewhere. Even an aunt of mine would grab up a 410 and run out the kitchen door after a ground hog when she saw one out the kitchen window.
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Post by dsawyer72 on Sept 19, 2017 20:40:32 GMT -5
Brno model 2, bolt action .22, open sights, 1954 vintage. It ain't fancy, but it's accurate, and so, so smooth. Took one last weekend. By far the smoothest bolt action I own.
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Post by poc on Sept 25, 2017 1:30:00 GMT -5
My first squirrel gun was a Savage .22. I can't use it anymore, it won't extract the shells. First gun I bought was a Stevens 20 gauge. That's what I've been using mostly this year. I also have a Remington 597 that I really like. I have an old Stevens bolt action that is my favorite, but the bolt throw is really far on the top of the receiver, so the scope has to be mounted on a side mount and I can't find a good scope that will fit that mount. It is only for 3/4" tubes I think.
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Post by SFC (R) B on Nov 6, 2017 16:45:49 GMT -5
I finally got my Savage 93 in 17 HMR out for squirrels for the first time this season (I've had it for 2 years) at elk/deer/bear camp. I got 2 small tree squirrels with it and I am a big hooked. Now I am scouring the area around where I live for huntable land.
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Post by sakorifle on Nov 6, 2017 17:42:10 GMT -5
Did anyone read about the boy up in Hammond Indiana that got shot in the top of the head by a stray bullet. Someone fired a bullet into the sky and it came back down and hit this kid in the top of his head while he was out on the basketball court playing ball. He later died in the hospital. This made me think about shooting at Squirrels up in the top of a tree. Wonder where the bullets go if they hit or especially if they miss the squirrel. For this reason above I would choose to use a 12 gage shotgun for squirrel hunting. I've used a Remington Model 870 Wing Master 12 Gage pump in the past to hunt squirrels in the woods. Never had to worry much about where the pellets were landing at it was a huge woods and there were no people or houses in the woods. I also use to hunt with a Ruger 10/22 using 22 LR ammo and shot a few squirrel with this rifle. Back then I didn't really think too much about shooting into the air at a squirrel up in a tree. I was under 18 at the time. As I got older I grew wiser and stopped shooting that rifle up into the air. I still shoot it from time to time but it's at a State Certified Gun Range with Range officers supervising the shooting range. That is why over here in the uk I don't shoot rimfire rifles up trees, just too many people around, what goes up must come down, i use a four ten all the time for tree shooting billy
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Post by tenring on Nov 6, 2017 21:16:59 GMT -5
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Post by a1989 on Nov 14, 2017 6:08:35 GMT -5
Most of the time I'm squirrel and rabbit hunting with squirrel being the secondary choice. When I do that, I like to bring a 12 gauge over under with #6 shot. Once it turns colder I bring out a .22 bolt action J.C. Higgins (Sears).
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