Mallory and I got out and did some Squirrel hunting this weekend. I got 6 today and she got 5 yesterday and 2 today. All headshots with a scoped .22
Squirrel Opener
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Iowa_Buckeye
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Took Shea yesterday morning. Got 2. Going again tomorrow morning. Gonna sleep in a bit longer though....
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Just 1 today. Saw lots but the gun barrel must have a bend in it.
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Took my son and his buddy, who just passed his hunter safety course, to the farm for some squirrel and dove hunting. My son knocked 3 doves down while his buddy and me went to a hickory flat. He ended up with 3 squirrels. Should've had his limit, maybe next time. He was mighty happy with his first one.
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God it feels great to be in the woods again!
Today was my squirrel opener. Pretty good hunt on a beautiful morning. I bought this H&R Greenwing Special at our 4-H Endowment dinner when the guy I thought I was bidding against, wasn't bidding anymore! It's been a damn good gun. Shooting 3" Kent steel 2s through the MOD setup and it'll drop them at 30+ with ease. Green for days like today when they weren't leaving the tree tops.
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Nice! What rifle are you shooting? I love my marlin 39 but the trigger is heavy. Really accurate but it's a bitch holding steady and waiting for the hammer to drop. I'm thinking about a dedicated for squirrel bolt gun. Anschultz 1761 is what I'm leaning towards.
It's a Marlin xt22. I like this little gun. My only bitch that I've accepted now is ammo affecting accuracy. I'm shooting the Remington golden bullet, since it's the only thing available. It was the worst bullet when patterning six or 7 different Ammos to see what it liked the best a few years back. I threw it at paper the other day and the flyer bullet just makes my head shake. I'll get a couple shots on there mark then just have one fly like 3 inches off at 30yrds. Ccis or Ellys never strayed for me. ive completely wiffed on few shots with the squirrel not budging then a brain bust. At least I'm hunting.
every .22 I own, including pistols, shoots and cycles CCI standard velocity 40 gr lrn the best. I have no idea why. even better than expensive target ammo like Eley. I've made sure to keep up a good supply of it.
I have a shitpot full remington golden bullets . I let the kids shoot them up when we have the 22 shoot . Like jamie sais . The cci shoot the best out of all my 22 's. .
. I had to hide my CCI's.