.22 mags and red squirrels

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skandiaman

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I gave the local population of red squirrels a reprieve for a while since they kept the dogs busy barking at them in the trees. But as rodents will do they screwed up their sweet deal by eating the bird feeders themselves instead of just taking the seed out. I've been sniping them out the window with a Marlin .22 mag topped with 6x24 BSA. Hollowpoints give a margin of error alot better than .22lr. No more chasing them down with less than a head shot. That rifle has won me several chickens at turkey shoots hitting raw eggs at 50yds offhand.
 
22mag & hp vs. red squirrel 95% of the time = very dead squirrel. Red's are considered pests up here, no season, unprotected. I think they make a great challenge. I'd much rather have greys around for a good season /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
This place is overrun with red squirrles.
Red squirrle vs 12 ga.= 99.9% death ratio.
.1% wally-world field load missfires.
I have a special place in my heart for those little critters. I love them to death. When ever I'm down about not seeing any bunnys or coyote I just graab a dozen fieldloads and stand in the furns. They come to me, the worse case of sorside you ever seen. That 12 ga. will blow'm back 20 feet and clean out everything around them. just a big hole were they use to be. It's almost a little trapeez act when a full load of #7 out of the modifid choke hits. It's more of an arial death.
 
Actually your undergunned! The .22mag. isn't the rifle of choice that I would use for those F#@!*#en red squirrels. I would use my 30-06 or 300 win.Mag. I guess you can already figure out how much I hate them.....LOL
 
I made a PVC "super feeder" for the birds with 22 feeder holes. I hung it this morning and it was'nt 20 min. and I had 2 reds out there. Capped one but hit limbs trying the other. Oh well he'll be back.
 
Just run with me on this one guy's.

A metal sillouette bird feeder! I would make it more longer than tall. Kind of arcade style with a nice gong sound to it. The contestances would walk back and forth along the runway as they TRY to dodge the bullets. It would be a carnivlle atmosphere right in the dooryard.
This time of year I hunt'm with with my 357 so I can keep my hands in my coat. The red dot scope works just fine at 30 yards. I reload sub-sonics in 38 special and let me tell you, those little beggers are so wired up that if there looking at the gun when I fire, say 30 feet away, they'll dodge the bullet. Scout's honor. I sware they can see the bullet leave the gun under 800 f.p.s! That makes for quite an interesting challange.
 


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