Roamin_Wade
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My father always used a Remington 512 Sportmaster 22 S,L&LR to hunt squirrels. His father bought it in 1940 and it’s now mine and it is still extremely accurate. My grandfather would put light-anywhere matches in the edge of a piece of cardboard and then put it on the top of a fence and shoot from 15 ft away and light those matches. My father would always aim at the tree limb or trunk directly below the head of the squirrel and the squirrel would fall out of the tree and my father would put the heel of his boot on the neck of the squirrel and break its neck. No meat ruined. My father can also clean a squirrel in less than a minute.
I killed my first squirrel with a Savage 24 in 22/410 that was a friends’ fathers rifle. When I found a decent one at a pawn shop I bought it so I’d always have one. I’d like that 222/20 ga spoke of earlier!
4-6 shot is good medicine for squirrel...if you aren’t a very good shot with a 22.. ;~)
I killed my first squirrel with a Savage 24 in 22/410 that was a friends’ fathers rifle. When I found a decent one at a pawn shop I bought it so I’d always have one. I’d like that 222/20 ga spoke of earlier!
4-6 shot is good medicine for squirrel...if you aren’t a very good shot with a 22.. ;~)