I’ve never met anybody who hunts squirrels with a 45-70 Government. Best,
Ted
Me, either. I assumed Raimey meant that the lower and smaller caliber barrel might have been used. I have hunted them considerably with my .32 cal. roundball long rifle. Head shots only. Great fun.
I did once shoot a barn pigeon off the ridge cap of an equipment shed with a .45-70. I recall seeing an object separate from the centered pigeon and watched it fall to the ground. I walked over and looked at it and found it was the pigeons heart, arteries and veins severed perfectly, and totally intact. One of those things that "jes' make a man shake he haid". . . . . as Roger Pinckney was fond of saying.
