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When I was 12 or so, as soon as leaves fell, after school I would hit the woods down the hill from my house, on the creek that's now dammed into a reservoir, and kill a mess of squirrels with my Dad's 16 ga M37 Ithaca. Got back to the house in time for him to help me clean them, then Mom would fry the young ones and make gravy for supper with biscuits. Dang...
JR

I did most of my squirrel hunting with a lowly Mossberg bolt action with detachable magazine (Clip). Used standard velocity LR's. The Mosssy would feed the shorts, it was a tack driver with the LR's but got about a 50% pattern in the 30" circle with shorts.You just could't hit anything with them, have no idea why. I did not like the sonic Crack of a high velocity round, found it would clear a tree with the first shot, where with the standard velocitry cartrifges they would nearly always go right back to cutting in just a minute or so.
Only ones I ever had any problem getting to the ground after being hit were a few that hit a crotch in a limb on the way down. don't think in that case it would have mattered if you had shot it with a BB Cap or a .30-30.

Assigned to the Charleston South Carolina Naval Base in August back in the 80's and the guys who were stationed there were talking about opening days of their deer season.

Deer? Now? In August?
Yep, a deer a day all the way until December.
I'd ask what they used and they all said shotguns, usually a Ithaca Model 37.
Why a shotgun?
The snakes man, all of the snakes.