When I bought my current home in 2013 it had one large oak tree on one side of the back yard and 6 on the other side. Squirrels would normally go up the one tree and sometimes jump to the closest tree on the other side while up in the trees. For 7 years I killed a bunch of squirrels out of that one tree. Sometimes I got on from the trees on the other side but the one tree, I called it my killing tree, was the primary location of squirrels when I shot them. My Prod was my main airgun during the time that tree was alive. It's killed 15 squirrels, most of them out of that tree. My Avenger also got one and my P35-25 got many of it's 18 out of that tree. I'll include a sunset picture of the live tree and a picture of my then 3 year old grand daughter standing beside the tree after it fell.
It fell mainly into my neighbors yard and I hired a tree service to get rid of it but asked them to leave what was left of the stump. I cut that up into slabs that I then dried. First I used a piece to make a buttstock. Then I made grips. Last week the 2 inch thick piece I wanted for the forend was down to about 8 per cent moisture content and I made the forend completing the stock. Because it came from the stump of a dying tree the wood is highly figured and there is some spalting. That is the white areas although not all the very light colored wood is spalted.
It fell mainly into my neighbors yard and I hired a tree service to get rid of it but asked them to leave what was left of the stump. I cut that up into slabs that I then dried. First I used a piece to make a buttstock. Then I made grips. Last week the 2 inch thick piece I wanted for the forend was down to about 8 per cent moisture content and I made the forend completing the stock. Because it came from the stump of a dying tree the wood is highly figured and there is some spalting. That is the white areas although not all the very light colored wood is spalted.
