Raining Squirrels in the rain ( graphic)

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davecole

davecole

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It has been soooo hot here in NE Okla that I've relegated my shooting to indoor 10m matches (more on this at a later date).
So at 6am this morning it was 72, dead calm with light misting rain. A cup of coffee in one hand and my .25 Vulcan in the other, I headed down to the woods. 

After walking down a dirt road in the light mist about 100 yards ahead, I heard the rain coming down in the trees in front of me.
Wait.... it's not raining on me I thought. A reflex look up and I saw branches moving around like the wind was picking up.
Wait.... I don't feel the wind or the rain.
Wellllll... The squirrels were jumping from branch to branch causing the mist that had collected on the leaves to dropping on other leaves making it sound like it was raining. 
Not only was I able to detect approximate location with the branches, I was able to track them with the sound of the "rain".
With the ground damp, leaves didn't crunch and twigs didn't snap as easily so I took up a position in a clump of small oaks and watched.
Within minutes, I saw a party of grays playing tag and I wanted in on some of that. 
At the end of the game it was Vulcan - 3 squirrels -0.
On my back out to the Jeep, I saw two fox squirrels scurrying across the road and one stopped to check me out.

Bad move sweetheart. 





I still have a few more weeks left before I have to surrender the property to the deer hunter that leases it during bow season.
Maybe next outing, I'll have my phone camera rig installed and get some video.
 
Well the shots were pretty much squirrel hunt typical.

Squirrels runs along branches in trees,

Squirrels stops running.

Squirrels get anchored by a JSB 34g pellet moving at about 700 to 750fps somewhere between 30 and 50 yards away.

Impact locations on this hunt were typically upper body except one of the grays. I shot it in the, um, rectum area, when it raised its tail at me. The shot exited the shoulder area.
The fox was hit in the lower stomach area as it sat up to look back at me. It was a quick offhand shot and my furthermost shot of about 43 paces.

I would say they died very quickly. They dropped out of the trees like over ripe fruit.
The shock to their internal organs is very traumatic. The 25 caliber pellet had energy 50% greater at the point of impact than that of the average .22 pellet at the muzzle.

I don't want to see it suffer on it's fall to the ground. I prefer death to be instantaneous. When they die, there is no blood pressure to cause excessive bleeding. I don't shoot to wound, I shoot to kill. :)

 
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