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My ol' reliable Remington 552 Speedmaster with CCI HV short hollow points still works great. Very quiet, very deadly. Two head shots in 80 ft pine in my front yard in past 24 hours. Also, cannot say enough about the $100 Hawke 3x9 scope on it. What's your choice of firearm? JR
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Right now I run a Ruger American Heavy Barrel, 4x12 Bushnell scope, RWS subsonic Hollow points and a suppressor. I lazed my bird feeder and its exactly 17 yards to the tree. so I zeroed at 17 yds. I can shoot their eye out . The RWS is super accurate and suppressed is quieter than an air rifle.
my next one that I have to get set up and zeroed is a Vudoo Model Sinister 22 Bolt action, HB, with Vortex 5x25 PST II scope and suppressor. initial testing indicates one hole at 50 yds. better be for the price they get for them
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Anschutz 54 sporter with Kahles rimfire scope. Extremely accurate gun.
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My Remington 541 with CCI Quiet LR length will hold a red squirrel brain size group out to 25 yards. That is the maximum range required. These will also penetrate a half-inch piece of plywood at that range and are as titled, quiet.
While it has a terrible trigger, I will offer that Aguilla 60 grain subsonics will cycle in a Ruger 10-22, but with the trigger, as it is I haven't figured out a purpose.
Just to maintain my status here on the board I'll mention too that red squirrels are good eating and much easier to skin than greys.
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I use a Hamilton boys rifle, a water bottle, and cb caps.
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The most amazing thing I've seen lately was a rifle a friend, who was visiting here from Biloxi, brought with him .......a Huben semi-automatic air rifle. It is a 19 shot and has a range compensating scope. He head shot three squirrels at 75+ yards without a miss. Deadly ......... but with a serious price.
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My ol' reliable Remington 552 Speedmaster with CCI HV short hollow points still works great. Very quiet, very deadly. Two head shots in 80 ft pine in my front yard in past 24 hours. Also, cannot say enough about the $100 Hawke 3x9 scope on it. What's your choice of firearm? JR Unless I am mistaken, John, I gave you a recommendation on the 552, long ago, on the old Shooting Sportsman board. My copy, a BDL version from perhaps 1975, is at least as accurate as my 581 Remington .22 bolt gun. Shooting standard velocity Eley solid points, the LR version, yields very satisfying accuracy. Dad’s (now, my son’s) Remington 241 is an also ran compared to the other two, but, as a takedown gun, it is accurate enough to pot bunnies and squirrels. I’ve done it, just not recently. 70s vintage K4 on the 552. Same vintage 4X Marksman on the 581, and a Bushnell 1.5 X 5 on the 241. The scope is no longer optional for me. My 552 replaced a Ruger 10-22, and, at the time, the Remington was a revelation. Full sized, good trigger, truly able to eat any ammunition I had, and, as a kid that was a motley collection of garage sale and end of season closeout stuff from Target, or, the Holiday gas station. Target used to sell ammunition. Best, Ted
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I was using an air rifle (GAMO Whisperer) but the scope on it became problematic so... I reverted back to a low end Mossberg single-shot and sub-sonic .22s. Need to work on that air gun.
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I live in the city limits of a small town and have around 20-30 acres of woods behind my house. I have a bird feeder 18 yards out me back door, I quit counting at 400+ squirrels killed a few years ago. My weapons of choice are air rifles, several break barrels, but my killing machine is a .22 PCP, it is very very accurate and whisper quiet.
My wife lets me buy all the guns I can hide.
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