It was about at the freeze point this morning here in SC. That's cold for us, it doesn't get too much colder here. That seems to have the squirrels more interested in my 7 oak trees and their acorns. I got a little female yesterday and her big brother today. 15 ounce male shot out of the same crotch of the same oak tree (about 22 yards horizontally away and at a 30 degree upward angle). I may have to call that tree "Killing Tree 2". My first killing tree fell down, it had root rot, over a year ago. I shot most of my squirrels out of that tree. Now a tree on the other side of my back yard seems to be the most popular tree for them to run into. It has several crotches where they can rest. The lower one is big enough they can kind of sit on the backside of it and peek around the corner. This one was being a bit lazy and was pretty visible. Shot went up a front leg breaking it in several places, through the shoulder, through the chest and then through the spine stopping under the skin on top of the squirrel. It's the first pellet I've recovered from now 9 squirrels with my P35-22 tuned to about 32 fpe and shooting 21 grain baracuda match pellets. The squirrel dropped immediately. It took a lot longer to clean than the 10 ounce female yesterday. This guy made a bad move early. He was headed towards my front yard and was safe (I don't shoot in that direction because it is towards my neighbors houses) but he turned around and ran into the killing tree 2. The third picture is fuzzy but is the recovered pellet. You can still tell it is chewed up some on one side from passing through bones.
