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Your Go-To Squirrel Gun #3138298
06/05/20 10:08 AM
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What do y’all prefer, .22 or shotgun (and of shotgun, what gauge?)


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3. Taxation Is Theft
Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3138306
06/05/20 10:15 AM
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When I hunted skwurls,,,,.22lr or a .410, .20ga.

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3138408
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.22 rifle or .22 pistol

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3138504
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Browning A-bolt .22 with a 3x9x40 Leupold or a 20 Ga auto depending on the time of year and foliage.

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3138571
06/05/20 04:03 PM
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22lr or .410 depending on time of year. .270 if they bark at me too long in the deer stand.

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3138593
06/05/20 04:34 PM
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10/22, 4x scope, and CCI Minimag HP for eating.

Gone are my days for biting on lead shot or oyster pearls.


Last edited by JohnnyLoco; 06/05/20 04:35 PM.
Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3141889
06/09/20 01:53 PM
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Georgia and Missouri
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Depends on the time of year and what they are feeding on. It they are high in the hickories or poplars then a 12. oaks a 20 or 410. If they are on walnuts or the ground or I just feel like it I'll take a 22 with cci hollow points.

If I'm hunting hollers then a shotgun for sure. But hunting ridge tops I prefer a 22 more often unless I'm trying to stack them up in a hurry. Growing up my dad and I were pretty serious squirrel hunters. U bet we killed a few hundred a year on average.

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3141936
06/09/20 02:40 PM
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Winchester 62A pump shooting shorts.


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3142131
06/09/20 06:57 PM
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375 Winchester. I hate squirrels.


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3145694
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If you hate squirrels then use a CCI Stinger or Quickshok

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3145756
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Ithaca Model 49 single shot .22


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3146258
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TC single shot .22


Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3148096
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Air rifle


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3148384
06/18/20 12:16 PM
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Depends where. If i'm near houses or town, I'm not shooting a .22 in the air, so 12 gauge or 16 gauge shotgun for me, .410 in the neighborhood. I prefer larger shot sizes 4-5, most will pass through and there are less of them to pick out. For close shots with a shotgun do not aim directly at squirrel but instead just in front of the nose so that hits the head and does not blow them apart. .410 and 20 gauge will have a hard time reaching the tops of trees where they like to hang out, although it can be done with a tight choke.
Out at the club or at the NF I'm taking the .22. Nothing quit like sniping the little rodents right in the noggin from distance.

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3148843
06/18/20 09:47 PM
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A 20-gauge when the leaves are on the trees.

Thompson-Center Classic .22 LR, scoped, for bare trees. T/C introduced it in 2000 and I like the traditional wood-metal.

Binoculars always to help find limb-clingers.


Last edited by Clem; 06/18/20 09:48 PM.

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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3149622
06/19/20 09:52 PM
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an old Sears single shot .22 shooting short hps. Has a old Unertl 4X scope on it and has killed 2.8 trillion skwerls in my lifetime. I refinished it 100 years ago, added a pad, rosewood grip cap and forend cap to it. Stock is very blond colored.


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: BhamFred] #3149935
06/20/20 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by BhamFred
I refinished it 100 years ago,.

That was your first project after retirement, right?


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3151249
06/22/20 01:31 AM
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Suppressed Ruger 96/22 with CCI SV


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Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3151275
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Franchi 28 gauge (I hunt with dogs and lots of times the squirrels are timbering when I shoot them).

Re: Your Go-To Squirrel Gun [Re: GomerPyle] #3152839
06/23/20 09:21 PM
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Depends on the circumstances but a 410 is my go to...i do use a 22 mag and 12ga with #6 if money is involved


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