ARGH! Those Pesky Squirrels!
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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ARGH! Those Pesky Squirrels!
Went out today and saw a good bit of squirrels but my goodness, I couldn't get a good clean shot at them! They are so damn fast and swing from branch to branch like a bunch of monkeys!! I got played today!
I was using the scoped Marlin 22 LR and I'm just wondering if I need to go with a shot gun instead? I shot my first squirrel with a 20 gauge shot gun but that is my son's gun. I also shot and killed a squirrel with the 22 last week though but it was pretty close, on the side of a tree. I have a 16 gauge here and a friend of my hubby's just dropped off a 12 gauge pump.
I'm cool with the 16 gauge but wonder if a 12 gauge is too much for those lil rascals or is it all good?
If you guys had to choose, would you go with a scoped 22 or a shot gun? I need some help/tips killing these damn squirrels! I swear, they're laughing at me! <You guys probably are too>
I'm going to go back out on Thursday, very early... like wake up the woods early!
I was using the scoped Marlin 22 LR and I'm just wondering if I need to go with a shot gun instead? I shot my first squirrel with a 20 gauge shot gun but that is my son's gun. I also shot and killed a squirrel with the 22 last week though but it was pretty close, on the side of a tree. I have a 16 gauge here and a friend of my hubby's just dropped off a 12 gauge pump.
I'm cool with the 16 gauge but wonder if a 12 gauge is too much for those lil rascals or is it all good?
If you guys had to choose, would you go with a scoped 22 or a shot gun? I need some help/tips killing these damn squirrels! I swear, they're laughing at me! <You guys probably are too>
I'm going to go back out on Thursday, very early... like wake up the woods early!
#4
I killed 29 squirrels last season with an old 870 12 gauge with low brass #6.Ive killed 9 this season with a stoeger 2000 12 gauge with high brass #6.I love a shotgun for shots under 35 yards,but where i hunt,the shots can be 60 yards,so i take the 17 HMR most of the time.I recommend u use #6 rather than #7 1/2,(with a 12 ga.)b/c u put so much shot in the meat,and it aint fun to chomp down on 1 of um!!!!!I like a full choke,but pattern with different choke/shell combination so u git the best pattern.Pattern at the longest range u plan to shoot,with me its 40 yards.good luck
#5
MAN!!!!!!!U cant let um git no closer than that?Id have a hard time hittin um with my 17HMR at 75 yards.Anyway,if u see 1,just sit STILL AND QUIET!!!DONT MOVE IF U CAN HELP IT!!!Ive killed a few at 60+ yards just to be a ''Showoff''.Try 2 let um git as close as they will git,then BUST THEM BUSHYTAILZ!!!!
#6
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Whatdaya want me to do, sing to them?!
They are difficult to shoot but maybe it's just me since you slay dem squirrels so easily!
If I sit still, and I do, I see them in the distance and I try to sneak up on them. I stalked that one for 5 minutes til I got about 30 yards from his tree. Sometimes I get lucky and they're closer to me when I'm still and sometimes not.
I have tried to read up on everything I can to be successful at squirrel hunting. Maybe it's because this is my first year? I dunno... I'm not totally frustrated yet, it's just that every time I come home empty handed, I wanna go back out and giv'em hell again the next chance I get and it starts all over again.
They are difficult to shoot but maybe it's just me since you slay dem squirrels so easily!
If I sit still, and I do, I see them in the distance and I try to sneak up on them. I stalked that one for 5 minutes til I got about 30 yards from his tree. Sometimes I get lucky and they're closer to me when I'm still and sometimes not.
I have tried to read up on everything I can to be successful at squirrel hunting. Maybe it's because this is my first year? I dunno... I'm not totally frustrated yet, it's just that every time I come home empty handed, I wanna go back out and giv'em hell again the next chance I get and it starts all over again.
#7
Whatdaya want me to do,sing to them?!
They are difficult to shoot but maybe it's just me since you slay dem squirrels so easily!
If I sit still, and I do, I see them in the distance and I try to sneak up on them. I stalked that one for 5 minutes til I got about 30 yards from his tree. Sometimes I get lucky and they're closer to me when I'm still and sometimes not.
I have tried to read up on everything I can to be successful at squirrel hunting. Maybe it's because this is my first year? I dunno... I'm not totally frustrated yet, it's just that every time I come home empty handed, I wanna go back out and giv'em hell again the next chance I get and it starts all over again.
They are difficult to shoot but maybe it's just me since you slay dem squirrels so easily!
If I sit still, and I do, I see them in the distance and I try to sneak up on them. I stalked that one for 5 minutes til I got about 30 yards from his tree. Sometimes I get lucky and they're closer to me when I'm still and sometimes not.
I have tried to read up on everything I can to be successful at squirrel hunting. Maybe it's because this is my first year? I dunno... I'm not totally frustrated yet, it's just that every time I come home empty handed, I wanna go back out and giv'em hell again the next chance I get and it starts all over again.