Dances with Squirrels
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Some times I think They will ever stop their twitching all over the place .I walk over to pick them up and it is a perfect brain buster . If I am handling a problem squirrel with non hunting observers I always do a heart lung shot .Dead with in seconds and usually die very peacefully as far as the observers know .Stan
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I almost always go for a mid to upper thorax shot. They are dead before they hit the ground. Unconscious anyway. Hydro-static shock. With the .25 cal the shock is so great that it sends a massive shock wave throughout the body and knocks them out. They die soon afterward. Works on deer too with the right caliber and shot placement.
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Hahaha! I've been educated. : ) Thanks Thurmond. I won't let it happen again. Pie in my face. : / Tehe.
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It is in slow motion so it seems a lot longer than real life, but yes, it was a long song.
Nueces I've tried it all and have had varied results with each. I've had absolute stillness after a heart shot, brief run with lung, paralysis with neck, dance and rigidity with brain. I've always shot deer in the neck just above the shoulder with systemic shutdown of nervous, vascular and lung function(phrenic nerve to diaphragm). They pile up without a step. Squirrels are strange critters in that the results don't seem predictable. Some times they dance sometimes they don't, but I agree that an audience, especially of non-hunters is best handled with a heart/lung placement like ncstan says.
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Almost all my shots a thorax shots, don't want to see the "Dance" a good heart lung shot brings 'em down pretty quick if you put enough energy on them.
Where I go I have some 60-80+ yards shots on GS but don't take them, If they were a little closer I might. I actually enjoy the rabbits and GS playing around ;- )
The only thing I do go after in earnest are Starlings ... I do get a few once in a while but don't yap about it much. Since I have been using PCP guns more, more and more Starlings are taking dirt naps, but the shots are longer as they are smart and they do stay away, it is now to the point they are close to 90+ yards away.
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Where I go I have some 60-80+ yards shots on GS but don't take them, If they were a little closer I might. I actually enjoy the rabbits and GS playing around ;- )
The only thing I do go after in earnest are Starlings ... I do get a few once in a while but don't yap about it much. Since I have been using PCP guns more, more and more Starlings are taking dirt naps, but the shots are longer as they are smart and they do stay away, it is now to the point they are close to 90+ yards away.
wll2506
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I shot one in the garden at home about a week back, it was around 20 yds so I used the .22 TDR instead of my favoured S510 US. Lined the headshot and slipped the trigger. Squirrel jumped like he had just been electrocuted and ran off up the garden.
I couldn't believe it, even took a test shot on a leaf at about the same distance as couldn't believe I missed at that range, spot on shot on the leaf.
later that day one of my dogs found the squirrel, perfect headshot. He must of made it on his nerves as far as the flower beds and dropped.
tough wiry buggers they are
I couldn't believe it, even took a test shot on a leaf at about the same distance as couldn't believe I missed at that range, spot on shot on the leaf.
later that day one of my dogs found the squirrel, perfect headshot. He must of made it on his nerves as far as the flower beds and dropped.
tough wiry buggers they are
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