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Hopefully this knowledge can help you in making a choice of what type of ammo you will shoot in your rifle. wikiHow marks an article as reader-approved once it receives enough positive feedback. I'll be looking it over again. I used to get squirrel and my mother would make squirrel pot pie - something I still prepare from time to time. Bow and Arrow - Archery is the hunting technique that involves the most skill. They hit noticeably harder, but shot placement is still critical, and 50 yards is pushing the envelope. You should also shoot and kill squirrels that are sitting down. Sorry awful at doing links. On the other hand, when you shoot a rabbit or a squirrel with an airgun, a heart/lung shot more closely approximates the effect of a deer shot with a firearm; the ratio of projectile size to body mass and pass through of the pellet more closely resembles the deer/30-06 paradigm. The projectile was a JSB Hades flying at 901 feet per second. Well-placed head shots with a blunt or judo point humanely kill squirrels. I’m using the Neal Waltz die. This tip is within the context of the EDgun Leshiy in .25, and a low power tune. I hope to have some data on those through the 2013-2014 season. Anyone else planning on shootin some tree rats in a few days? Includes game targets, as well as pest control. Link to post Share on other sites . Shooting a squirrel in the belly will most definitely kill it, but it will take longer for it to die, it may crawl away so that you can’t find it, and it will destroy some of the meat. This rifle is where my journey into squirrel hunting rifles started. The only time I will take body shots, is if I am shooting a rifle that is sighted in for hollowpoints, be it subsonic hp or high velocity hp. Squirrel Lake Park - Est. Belding’s ground squirrels shot with .17 Super Mag and unknown ammunition types contained over 28 and 17 times more mass of Pb fragments than those shot with .22 solid and .22 hollow point bullets, respectively. Airgun Tutorials, Hunting with Airguns. Coyote Hunting with Fred Eichler of Predator Nation and the Benjamin Rogue air rifle In this segment of Predator Nation, host Fred Eichler is in Kansas in December 2012 hunting coyotes... Read More. "[1] Several years worth of squirrel hunting wrapped into one video. Flu-flu arrows are excellent for bowhunting squirrels because most shots are aimed upward. This article has been viewed 296,058 times. Squirrel hunting is not as easy as you would think. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/6\/6a\/Hunt-Squirrels-Step-1-Version-4.jpg\/v4-460px-Hunt-Squirrels-Step-1-Version-4.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/6\/6a\/Hunt-Squirrels-Step-1-Version-4.jpg\/aid599536-v4-728px-Hunt-Squirrels-Step-1-Version-4.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":546,"licensing":"
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