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I'll go with a little different twist on it, Ground squirrels can be a high volume shoot. A mildly gussied up 10-22 with a bunch of preloaded mags fits the bill. It has a short barrel to get in and out of the truck window without hanging up, and a decent 1-8x scope that I can shoot like a red dot when it's low or out to about a hundred and twenty-fiveish yards, consistently, with good but not too expensive ammo. I usually forget to put the brass catcher on, and it takes a while to pick up empties off the truck floor. Who knows how many cases are in the dash vents. I'll have other 22LRs along, maybe one or two bolt rifles, usually an old single shot, almost always have my favorite revolver ready to go, but the little Ruger gets the nod.
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Can you recommend some models that have a good trigger?
So many airguns don't.
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My 1948 era M63 Winchester 23" barrel, Weaver 4x scope and CCI mini-mags-- as we used to call accurate rifles in the USMC, it's a "dinger" Old bit of wisdom- "If you want to be a good deer hunter, first become a very good squirrel hunter. RWTF
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Unless I am mistaken, John, I gave you a recommendation on the 552, long ago, on the old Shooting Sportsman board. Best, Ted Yes you did, Ted. Thanks again. JR
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Remington model 12C with a Lyman peep sight. I am starting to need more than a simple peep sight and have a period scope being rebuilt. Once returned I’ll put it on another model 12 C. I love those octagonal barrels. Not a tack driver, but under 50 yards a still squirrel, is a dead squirrel. Mine shoots standard velocity rounds the best, with dime size groups at 25 yards with a Lyman peep sight.
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Livermore do you mean the tiny red squirrels or what we call Fox squirrels that are the same size or even a bit bigger than grays? Both are fine eating.
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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. You HAVE to use an air gun specific scope on an air rifle. They will destroy a typical rifle scope in short order. Do no try to cheat this. Best, Ted
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As I understand it, you're absolutely right Ted. But this one came with the gun as part of the package. Not sure exactly what happened but it began spraying shots all over the target, so I abandoned it for the iron sights on the gun. That worked well-enough, but as Stan also mentioned, the triggers on these air-guns can be pretty spotty too. Moreover, this Spanish .177 caliber unit also can be very destructive to whatever the critter happens to be on or next too (like the siding or tiles on my home) thus my present abandonment for the sub-sonic stuff or even the far-noisier birdshot.
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Looks to me like this is what one needs for arboreal rats --
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Umarex .22 caliber pellet rifle. 1050fps with 25 grain pellets. Suppressed so very quite for neighbors and deadly. For the really BIG Vermin .30 caliber Umarex 44 grain pellets 950 fps. Not so quite but great fun.
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