Any one hunt squirrels with air rifles.

[HoytMT2332]

I love it, i always seem to do better with the benjamin 392 than a .22 or shotgun. I also have benjamin discovery i use alot. They seem to recover from the sound of the shot sooner, therefore i get more of them.

[Alpine_Archer]

I don't think your allowed to use air rifles for hunting down here in FL though as a kid I took quite a few with my pellet gun.

Are the squirlls ok to eat this time of year??? We usualy wait till atleast november to eat em so their arn't any nastys still lingering from the summer.

[skb2706]

My wife shoots them all the time off the bird feeders. Kitchen window sniper that she is. These are semi-city squirrels and feed the cats and foxes in the 'hood.
She uses a Gamo Hunter 220 and with a decent headshot she can take them right out to about 50 feet or more. The trick is in the headshot...........

[Okik]

So question....

I am a bowhunter. Now if I want to use an air rifle to take squirrels, do I need to have the Gun Safety course under my belt too?

[Squirrels]

Air rifles are all I ever use for squirrels...for one thing, they're relatively quiet.
And secondly, they're reasonably priced. Hell, in high school I used to use a Crosman 760 pumpmaster...that thing's a $30 piece of plastic, more of a toy than a gun. But it killed squirrels and was broke-highschooler-friendly.

[squirrelstew]

I have a friend who lives in a semi-rural location and the area around her house is infested with tree rats that trash the bird feeders and garden and generally make a nuisance of themselves. We are planning to shoot as many as we can and make a whole lot of stew in celebration of the opening of squirrel season. I just got a Crossman air gun that is pretty accurate and not too loud, so wish me luck! Now if we can just get some cold weather here in North Carolina sometime in the next three weeks...

[genesis27:3]

I have killed more squrriles with a airgun than any other weapon.
It's a ton of fun!

[Beard Buster]

The sheridan is the way to go. Is it the 20 cal? I have killed an insane amount of squirrels with them and have went through two of the guns in my life. I prefer them to a 22 especially in areas where gunfire may be illegal or dangerous due to high population. BB