What do you do when the varmint is bigger than the rifle? Ventilate

After a summer shooting chipmunks, this was like taking on Godzilla.

I was shooting my red wolf at 190 yards. When this gigantic squirrel climbs up on top of one of my field targets 25 feet from where I’m sitting, and commences to eat one of my walnuts. Obviously the red wolf won’t work. So I grabbed what I had handy and ventilated him from behind, he was facing away from me.

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