I needed to have some fun, so today I jumped on the scooter and made my way to my squirrel habitat. The video was not clear enough to be usable, so I won't bother to process it. My gun of choice is away from home, getting an issue addressed. I am on my backup gun that has seen no use in a year or more.
In total, I got 5. The last two were shots that made me proud. #4 was a spot and stalk, the rock squirrel made me at about 100 yards and dove to the safety of his burrow. I closed to 35 yards and shut off the atv, adjusted paralax and zoomed to 12x. After a brief moment, the angry squirrel song began to play. This trophy rock squirrel popped back up after about 2 mins, but he showed me only his eyeball and ear. I crosshair held and let the P-rod issued its signature burp. At 14fpe, the P-ROD is hardly high power. The pellet kicked up dirt from the backside of the mound, and I was not sure I had made a solid hit as I have not hunted with this gun in a while.
Result: .DRT
The best feeling was from #5.
I closed to 71 yards from another fat and and sassy rockie squirrel. I miss judged the hold over and bounced a pellet off the pallet he was perched on. I saw the pellet bounce over him on the ricochet. He ducked down between the slats for a few minutes. Through the binos, I found him facing and looking at me again from the other side of the pallet. The next pellet flew like a mortar round, arcing from sky back to earth. The sassy SOB squirrel caught it square in the throat. He sunk slowly to the ground gasping and shaking, choking on his last meal, a 14.3 CPHP. That was a shot that should be on video!
Shoot'em good
In total, I got 5. The last two were shots that made me proud. #4 was a spot and stalk, the rock squirrel made me at about 100 yards and dove to the safety of his burrow. I closed to 35 yards and shut off the atv, adjusted paralax and zoomed to 12x. After a brief moment, the angry squirrel song began to play. This trophy rock squirrel popped back up after about 2 mins, but he showed me only his eyeball and ear. I crosshair held and let the P-rod issued its signature burp. At 14fpe, the P-ROD is hardly high power. The pellet kicked up dirt from the backside of the mound, and I was not sure I had made a solid hit as I have not hunted with this gun in a while.
Result: .DRT
The best feeling was from #5.
I closed to 71 yards from another fat and and sassy rockie squirrel. I miss judged the hold over and bounced a pellet off the pallet he was perched on. I saw the pellet bounce over him on the ricochet. He ducked down between the slats for a few minutes. Through the binos, I found him facing and looking at me again from the other side of the pallet. The next pellet flew like a mortar round, arcing from sky back to earth. The sassy SOB squirrel caught it square in the throat. He sunk slowly to the ground gasping and shaking, choking on his last meal, a 14.3 CPHP. That was a shot that should be on video!
Shoot'em good
