Traditionally, when I squirrel hunt with a ML I hunt w/a sidelockwith 777 and a round ball. But this year I wanted to try something different. I decided this year to use my Laminate Genesis for fun. The Genesis shoots Blackhorn extremely well so I thought I’d break the rules with it and try and shoot roundballs out of a 1/28 twist gun with Blackhorn... To be honest I wasn't expecting much.

I started at 25 grains of BH and went up to 35 grains. I was using .490 Speer roundballs, .010 patches and a veggie wad for a buffer. (The .018 patches are too thick and w/out a buffer it blows the patches) all that ignited with Win209s.

I sat the target out at 20 yards which I figured would be about the distance I’d shoot most of my squirrels at. The first group (Top Left)with 25g wasn’t too bad. I could kill squirrels with that. So on to 30g (Top Right). Now we’re talkin’! That’s head shootin’ accuracy there. So for kicks, I wanted to see if 35 grians(Middle)would get any better. But, it looks like 35 is too much and it started slinging them. Looks like 30g is the sweet spot.




I’m lookin’ forward to May 9th. Bring on the bushy tails!

Sounds like it will be fun. But to be honest, I aint never heard of a spring squirrel season. What state is that? Looks like you found a load to fill the pot. And although 20 yds isn't very far, for your purposes I think it'll do nicely.

bronko22000, TN is the only place I know of that has a Spring squirrel. I grew up in VA and we never had such a thing. I only hunt the first part of it because it gets too hot and I don't enjoy sharing the woods with snakes.

20-30 yards is about all I'll do w/a ML. Now my Marlin 39A, I can take them out to 75 yards or so but I've grown bored of it.

Nice shooting. Appears you're ready for 'em!