Show us your squirrel gun for this season!
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Ya know I was just thinking I shoulda mentioned that...
The Brocock Ranger is a .22 cal and my Cricket Tactical is in .30 cal. And the Cricket loves to play out "yander". So far, critters haven't been 'holding up well' out at the tree line (130'ish yards)
The Brocock Ranger is a .22 cal and my Cricket Tactical is in .30 cal. And the Cricket loves to play out "yander". So far, critters haven't been 'holding up well' out at the tree line (130'ish yards)
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well, both rifles are outta da box stock...
the Ranger shoots JSB Exact Jumbo's 15.89s at about 700fps average. it's very quiet too. i have a personal "challenge" i call "birds on da wire" and the Ranger is knocking down starling sized birds out at 79 yards (best so far). the wire is the power lines across the road.
for da Cricket, right now i haven't tired slugs with it yet, but... it slings JSB Exact 50 grainers at an average 919fps. not so quiet though. tired adding a Sumo... not much difference, just as Steve at AEAC said in his review of the Cricket. a friend of mine when he first saw this rifle, he said it looked like something outta "star wars"... i thought about that and thought to myself, ya know... it looks like somethings more like from MiB. so i dubbed him the "noisy cricket".
the Ranger shoots JSB Exact Jumbo's 15.89s at about 700fps average. it's very quiet too. i have a personal "challenge" i call "birds on da wire" and the Ranger is knocking down starling sized birds out at 79 yards (best so far). the wire is the power lines across the road.
for da Cricket, right now i haven't tired slugs with it yet, but... it slings JSB Exact 50 grainers at an average 919fps. not so quiet though. tired adding a Sumo... not much difference, just as Steve at AEAC said in his review of the Cricket. a friend of mine when he first saw this rifle, he said it looked like something outta "star wars"... i thought about that and thought to myself, ya know... it looks like somethings more like from MiB. so i dubbed him the "noisy cricket".
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I've used many different kinds of airguns for squirrels over the past 15+ years. Spring guns are always a classic favorite when it comes to just grabbing a tin of pellets and shooting all day without the worry of air levels. Most all my springers are tuned to 12 ft/lb and are designed to shoot smooth and quiet. The camo discovery runs around 25 ft/lb. The P-rod in my honest opinion is the best of the bunch. I have gotten this one to 16 ft/lbs with 16 grain predator poly-mags. And my longest kill shot is 56 yards. With the rocker1 mderator its super stealthy and only adds a few inches to the already short length. All this talk about squirrel hunting is really got me looking forward to the upcoming season
Thanks Ray
Thanks Ray
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I’ll be the odd one out here, this is one of my favorite PCP’s I’ve ever owned.
Benjamin Maximus in .22 stock tune
Gravmag 9S turns it into a 10 shot repeater
6.5 TKO makes this quieter than my marauder was
Nikko Stirling 4-12x50 I believe on top, super nice clear optic for the price
Taken many squirrels with it out to 60 yards with this, and it’s just a blast to shoot.
Benjamin Maximus in .22 stock tune
Gravmag 9S turns it into a 10 shot repeater
6.5 TKO makes this quieter than my marauder was
Nikko Stirling 4-12x50 I believe on top, super nice clear optic for the price
Taken many squirrels with it out to 60 yards with this, and it’s just a blast to shoot.
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.25 Flashpup for early season when the leaves are on. Then the .25 Wildcat when the leaves are gone and shots are longer or the squirrels wise up.
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I have 7 to choose from but on my annual labor day hunt earlier this month while It normally wears it's BPL clothes I recently was able to get an Aeron FT stock for field use which I really enjoyed using. I got all 6 of these guys (out of total of 50 over the trip Fri - Tues) with it 5 of the 6 out of an oak tree (which is somewhat rare for ground squirrels but yes they will live in tress too) the guy on the far left was at 65 yds and about 25 ft below me all shot with .25 19.9 Barracuda Green since I was in a lead free area in CA. Love my R500!
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Same rifle (R500) but different tree from the previous post and you can see where these two were sticking their heads up to take a look around. Bad idea...
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Nice collection, Gerry, to cover the big three calibers, and all in the most classic of FX guns.
The only input I have for you is, you need a fourth, a wildcat in the MK2, ha ha. Then you will truly have all of the classics!
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percent!!! Love my .20 Regal.
Been out twice squirrel hunting this season getting used to my new Maverick sniper .30. Here’s the results so far
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