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Whatever makes you happy, is fine with me.

While a rifle that shoots 1 1/4 to maybe 1 1/2 inch groups at 50 yards is adequate to kill squirrels, A rifle/ammo combination that shoots sub 1/2" groups at 50 yards gives me the ability to choose a head shot or to reach out further.

I don't spend a lot of time bragging at the range or otherwise... But I'll always take an accurate rifle over a so so rifle for hunting.

YMMV,

Jerry
 
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jerryd said:
Whatever makes you happy, is fine with me.

While a rifle that shoots 1 1/4 to maybe 1 1/2 inch groups at 50 yards is adequate to kill squirrels, A rifle/ammo combination that shoots sub 1/2" groups at 50 yards gives me the ability to choose a head shot or to reach out further.

I don't spend a lot of time bragging at the range or otherwise... But I'll always take an accurate rifle over a so so rifle for hunting.

YMMV,

Jerry
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I agree. Most of my squirrels are taken with head shots. I don't know where you live so I don't know what species of squirrel(s) you hunt, here in California where I live, ground squirrels are what I go after...and they can be tough as nails. I only hunt pestilent populations in agricultural areas. Ground squirrels can take a heart/lung shot and can still run a hundred yards back to their burrows. I've hit em in the heart/lung with powder burner 22's/17's and had them make it into their holes. So when I say minute of squirrel, it implies head shots(which with an adult ground squirrel can be 1.5"). With my air rifle, I rarely shoot further than 50 yards as I've found that in the field, especially with a decent breeze blowing, my accuracy is significantly depreciated. That's when I turn to powder burners(if the situation allows it). Something interesting, and I wonder if you have observed it too, is a squirrel shot where the bullet/pellet goes from front to back(or vice versa) almost always is a clean kill, but the ones that are hit in the chest going from side to side, are the ones that don't get put down straight away.
 
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I'm going after grey squirrels (and the occasional fox squirrel). Greys are fast and rarely sit still. They can run down a tree as fast as up. If they do sit still, it's best to aim and shoot as soon as you're on target, because they won't be there long.
In other words, I miss a bunch.
They're definitely the hardest game I've hunted from a precision needed point of view. Squirrels are exactly why I got into PCP's and why I shoot almost daily. Every year I get a bit better and get a few more squirrels. The season starts in Aug and I can't wait.
 
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AmosBurton said:
All my guns are MOS.
It's me that's the problem! :ROFLMAO:
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johnwoitalla said:
What a coincidence, I have the same problem.
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Exactly, most misses I am sure are on me...

That's why I want the most accuracy I can get, my groups are shot off a bench, squirrels are shot off of whatever rest I can find in the field or offhand (rarely thank goodness).

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johnwoitalla said:
I only hunt pestilent populations in agricultural areas.
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...here in California where I live, ground squirrels are what I go after...
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John,

Ground squirrels here too. The population fluctuates, used have none on my place, probably because we had a large population of foxes that must have kept them down(?). Distemper and maybe the coyotes that roll through the area once in awhile decimated the foxes. As a result in the last 4 or 5 years the squirrel population has boomed.

They are all pestilent... What they do in the garden is annoying, BUT we've spent pretty close to $1,000 in car repairs due to the damage they've caused (to the wiring & hoses).

Jerry
 
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johnwoitalla said:
The most important measurement of accuracy for any of my fire arms is MOS...minute of squirrel. Anything better than that is for bragging rights at the range. This time of year MOS is a much tighter group as there are weee little juveniles running about.
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Here's your fire arm...

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Who can name the movie??
 
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