Whats your squarril gun?

My fox squirrel rifle is a Ruger VMBZ 22 mag with Leupold rimfire 3x9x33EFR scope and its favorite ammo is Winchester 34gr.Supreme and Remington V-max shoot both about the same and chronographed both loads at 2,100+ fps. Love the weight of the rifle and its the best rifle for off hand shooting. Fox squirrels out to 125 130yds don't stand a chance. A farm that I hunt is loaded with fox squirrels I get all camoed up like Im turkey hunting and hunt the fence rows lots of fun shooting them at log range! ~marco
 
i use my winchester model 255 in .22 mag. It has a 4 x 40 tasco scoope on it. It has been the only tasco scoope i have had any good luck with. It was on the gun when i bought it. I have shoot a fox squirel at about 150 yrds or so with it. It had no head left. .22 mag is a outstanding gun for squirels. I use to use a savage .22 lr but retired it when i got the winchester. I also used my 870 express 12 ga but it is just to loud and not fun, to easy. also have used a single shot 20 gauge BUT i have not tried any kind of .17 cal of any sort yet. I hear they hit a small limb or even a leaf and are deflected and put way off track? So i have held back on buying one of them.
 
jon, thats an old Winchester! I think they also made one like that in a pump action sounds like its a real shooter I love my 22 magnums and like you Ihavent picked up and hunted with a 22LR in close to 30years. Maybe someday when Im old a gray I might get a nice 22LR for target shooting but right now its 22 or 17MAG! Now that small game hunting season is over I'll start hunting these small privite farms which is legal around here for varmints and the 17HMR is the only gun I will carry from now until fall. Well after Spring turkey season! ~marco
 
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jon, thats an old Winchester! I think they also made one like that in a pump action sounds like its a real shooter I love my 22 magnums and like you Ihavent picked up and hunted with a 22LR in close to 30years. Maybe someday when Im old a gray I might get a nice 22LR for target shooting but right now its 22 or 17MAG! Now that small game hunting season is over I'll start hunting these small privite farms which is legal around here for varmints and the 17HMR is the only gun I will carry from now until fall. Well after Spring turkey season! ~marco




i think it is from the 60's. i also think they made the same gun in a .22lr. It has been a GREAT gun. but last night it miss fired 2 times while i had a yotie on the ground. I am not sure if it was gun or ammo's fault thoe. the rounds had pin marks in them.

I have a bolt action marlin .22lr. I bought it last spring and havn't shot but 100 rounds with it. I really bought it for the g/f to shot but she shot it 3 times and gave up. she likes my 870 with feild load for the dam black birds that come in in the spring time. HEE HEE, nothing better then seeing a chick shooting things LMAO!!
 
mine is a remington 597. so far ive killed 7 squirrel and 5 rabbits this year. just waitin for the weather to warm up so i can go out and start my ground hog murder spree /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
Win mod 12--16ga.....old savage 22lr autoloader, the kind with the backwards safety, push forward for safe, pull back to fire....keeps you mindful of what your doing!
 
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what kinda groups are you shooting at say 25yrds? my brother wants a airforce air gun but he cant make up his mind
 
It really depends upon WHICH Squirrels we're talking about here...

When I first started hunting "varmint" squirrels it was down along the central Cali coast range.

Those were big California Ground Squirrels (which we also have up here in Oregon and they call 'em "Gray Diggers")

I went on several "Squirrel Safaris" with friends in the Spring time down in Los Padres National Forest. We'd use our .22LRs and that would work pretty well. But a month later they'd get really spooky and you couldn't get any closer than 125 yards from them so we needed something "more".

My friend bought a .22 WMR and I bought a Ruger #3 in .22 Hornet topped with a 6X scope on it. (This was all before the .17 HMR came out).

Later, after moving up to Oregon, the .22 Hornet wasn't up to the task of shooting the "Sage Rats" that we have over in the desert. For that I got a Sako .222 HB with a 16X scope on it.

Later I expanded my varmint hunting selection adding a couple of Remington 40Xs, one in .223 and one in .220 Swift.

But recently, here close to home, I've discovered a cash of those pesky Gray Diggers, so I got the .22 Hornet out and I also have a T-C Contender Carbine in .17 HMR for my gal friend.

Either one of them works well, but that little .17HMR really gets the job done well.

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