Damn Squirrels!!!

[Docwagon1776]

It's never too much

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Ah, the ol' rocket propelled cartridge for squirrels.

 

[Hardracer]

Cant go wrong with any gauge in an 1100 or 11-87...I'm more partial to the 11-87 though...just seems better built to me..wife bought me my 1st 12ga.in 1992 area from the newspaper classifieds(good ole days)as a birthday gift..an 11-87 premier..$325 hard green case and 2 barrels(burned in my mind for life)decent price even back then..stupid prices nowadays.try and find a .410 1100 for under 1k used.......since then Ive added a bunch.....but she got me started in this shotgun debacle im in today....lately I've been searching for a weatherby .22 circa early 80s...father in law had one and was the sweetest shooting factory 22 I ever shot.(he regrets selling that one)...trying to find one in decent shape is super hard...most are worn and beat up...just ain't worth it to shell out over $800 nowadays for a 22 that's 40 years old....my beat up dont care gun is the ruger 10/22...dont care watsover bout that item...I'm on my 3rd one now...remember those armadillos I spoke of?....lol..cheap *** Simmons scope..easy enough to rattle off 10 rounds like nothing(could do it in one but that's just fun.lmao)...1 is bound to hit the dillo thats tearing up my yard

 

[turkeybird56]

Here everybody has 12 gauge more for snakes than squirrels but them buggers around. Think I am gonna look for an auto loader 12 gauge.

For any old timers try training with 9mm or 40 cal sim rounds and get shot from under 20 ft away friggin Owwww. Now u not do much on a squirrel, a good sighted in .22 do the trick.

Just don’t shoot yer truck or the neighbors or shoot across a roadway or property line in TX. That get u in the caboose or as known as: Grey Bar Hotel.

 

[CanuckRam1313]

Here everybody has 12 gauge more for snakes than squirrels but them buggers around. Think I am gonna look for an auto loader 12 gauge.

For any old timers try training with 9mm or 40 cal sim rounds and get shot from under 20 ft away friggin Owwww. Now u not do much on a squirrel, a good sighted in .22 do the trick.

Just don’t shoot yer truck or the neighbors or shoot across a roadway or property line in TX. That get u in the caboose or as known as: Grey Bar Hotel.

The TM22 with some nice hot CCI rounds is a sweet unit!

My 1301 loves 00-Buck and Slugs...rapid fire is so much fun!

Although, the SPM-12, albeit a pump, that's a great toy, too!

 

[Mike Peery]

I parked my Ram Limited at noon on a Friday and when I got in on Saturday, I had no power steering. I looked on the forums and saw posts about $4800 dealer repairs. I talked to my dealer and found that my lifetime warranty did not cover Steering. I crawled underneath and saw the small wires to the steering rack were chewed off at the plug, also at the large wiring harness where they came out. I found about 5 inches of wire under the cardboard I was lying on. I took it to a friend who knew of these things and he was able to pull the pins out the plug enough to solder them back to the wire I found and then I was able to solder them back to the wiring harness with heat shrink tubing and then wrapped all of it with large flexible wire loom and zipped tied in place. Everything works great again.

 

[Mike Peery]

 

[markabby]

i finally realized i'm living in Kentucky when one of my neighbors told me she loved eating fried squirrel brains.

being from NYS i thought she was spoofing me, come to find out, she's been eating them since a child.

 

[Dusty]

Soy based wiring, stupidest invention ever. I am worried, we have the occasional squirrel but recently we have the most rowdy family ever. They are nuts, I don't like shooting animals w/o eating them, but I'm to the point it's them or the damage.

Of course, you can eat squirrels. Quite tasty, actually, since they're fussy eaters.

Around here mice are much more of a problem. I've been lucky. My son, not so much. Two of his trucks sit unused for sometimes long periods.

Regards,
Dusty
2019 Ram 1500 Billet Silver Laramie Quad Cab 2WD, 5.7 Hemi, 8HP75, 3.21 axle, 33-gallon fuel tank, 18” wheels. Build Date: 3 June 2018. Now at 133194 miles.

 

[Hardracer]

i finally realized i'm living in Kentucky when one of my neighbors told me she loved eating fried squirrel brains.

being from NYS i thought she was spoofing me, come to find out, she's been eating them since a child.

.............nope,nope,nope

 

[Green_Manalishi]

My tree rat solution:

 

[Marshall]

I have 0 interest in trying to skin out gophers and squirrel, To old to start.
Cow is not bad to do.
I have dealt and owned a lot of shot guns over the years. The one I hated the most was nice little Ithaca /SKB 20 ga o/u, it just kicked like a 10 ga for some reason.
The pull was too short for me.
I liked a old Frenchi 12 SA I used for yrs, it was a trade in and lives in most of the trucks and shop and always worked.
Did the same thing a $4000.oo one did , and you did not have to worry about sitting it in the dirt.

410 is great in a handgun, but these days I would not buy one in a shot gun.
IF money is handy a 28 ga will put you way above the common man.

Other end of the field is the 12 Dominion Arms ( Canadian) pump action 870 clone with a 8 1/2 in or 12 in barrel. The muzzle blast will get them. Chinese made.
Sold a few yrs back.

BTW ,those 22 bird shot work very well in smooth bore, not so much in a good rifles bore . 100 yrs ago most companies made smooth bore .22's for that.
lots where gallery guns .

 

[Docwagon1776]

I have 0 interest in trying to skin out gophers and squirrel, To old to start.
Cow is not bad to do.
I have dealt and owned a lot of shot guns over the years. The one I hated the most was nice little Ithaca /SKB 20 ga o/u, it just kicked like a 10 ga for some reason.
The pull was too short for me.
I liked a old Frenchi 12 SA I used for yrs, it was a trade in and lives in most of the trucks and shop and always worked.
Did the same thing a $4000.oo one did , and you did not have to worry about sitting it in the dirt.

410 is great in a handgun, but these days I would not buy one in a shot gun.
IF money is handy a 28 ga will put you way above the common man.

Other end of the field is the 12 Dominion Arms ( Canadian) pump action 870 clone with a 8 1/2 in or 12 in barrel. The muzzle blast will get them. Chinese made.
Sold a few yrs back.

BTW ,those 22 bird shot work very well in smooth bore, not so much in a good rifles bore . 100 yrs ago most companies made smooth bore .22's for that.
lots where gallery guns .

28 gauge is pretty uncommon in the US and can be harder to source shells for. .410, 12g and 20g are in every small town hardware store and gun shop nation wide. 16g used to be, but it's fallen out of favor over the last 20-ish years.

Rifling doesn't work for shot because the centripetal force as the shot moves through the barrel makes it open up into a doughnut shape once it exits the muzzle. Whatever you're aiming at becomes the void. Handguns for up close it won't have time to really open up that much, but more shot is more better. .45 Colt snakeshot shells will fill a piece of copy paper pretty well at 5y, tough for a snake to hide in it and not get hit. I used to carry an old single action with the first chamber empty, 2 snake shot, and 3 hollowpoints when I was cutting wood. Snakeshot for snakes, half **** and rotate to HP for wild dogs and coyote half breeds that got too nosy. I wasn't scared for myself much, but they liked chickens and rabbits so I didn't want them around.

 

[Hanover Fiste]

My back yard is adjacent to 20 acres of woods. I've got plenty of squirrels running around the yard, and all over my fence and maple tree. The wife feeds the darn things! I've been extremely lucky, as they haven't caused any damage to my trucks. Maybe it's because we've always had a cat...

 

[Badger 13]

And on the subject of critters, check out this article.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/0...wsDm31KIfv_ld5zyzN9XUJPyIVbtqM0u-gLRcw.UXPtrV

 

[Burla]

And on the subject of critters, check out this article.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/0...wsDm31KIfv_ld5zyzN9XUJPyIVbtqM0u-gLRcw.UXPtrV

that some funny stuff right there, using a tarp to stop ground boring rodents or mammals. Poison some peanut butter and spread it on the tarp maybe that will do it?

sigh California strikes again..

It’s gotten so bad in one national park in California, the National Park Service (NPS) is telling people to wrap their vehicles in tarps to ward off the marauding rodents.

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[markabby]

And on the subject of critters, check out this article.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/0...wsDm31KIfv_ld5zyzN9XUJPyIVbtqM0u-gLRcw.UXPtrV

maybe they need more coyotes there. every animal has a purpose.

 

[Randy Grant]

My 117HMR reaches out and cures the problem. Guy across the road has a hay field with downed trees that make a great habitat for them. More than once in the spring when the young come out I have done 20+. If/when they came over to my place, the life expentancy was pretty short.

 

[Burla]

My 117HMR reaches out and cures the problem. Guy across the road has a hay field with downed trees that make a great habitat for them. More than once in the spring when the young come out I have done 20+. If/when they came over to my place, the life expentancy was pretty short.

I got the same scope for my 17 as those standard scopes on a .22, I think I need to upgrade because I notice the 17 is much better at the long shot. At least that is what the paper is telling me. You got something better then a 3x9? I'm wondering when you get diminishing returns. I don't want to spend a grand on my scope for a 2 hundred dollar rifle.

 

[fitteenhundred]

The damage these little suckers can do is sickening.

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[Randy Grant]

I got the same scope for my 17 as those standard scopes on a .22, I think I need to upgrade because I notice the 17 is much better at the long shot. At least that is what the paper is telling me. You got something better then a 3x9? I'm wondering when you get diminishing returns. I don't want to spend a grand on my scope for a 2 hundred dollar rifle.

Using a 4x12 on mine, and it really does the job. Sub 100yd ear shots are the norm.