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I'd like to, but do not have a scoped bolt action .22. Queen used to do the shooting, and she always used her Nylon 66 Apache Black. It won't cycle shorts. She once went 13 for 14 with that Remmie. Pretty good for night shooting', even if it was a woman.

Maybe I need a dedicated frog .22 that will run shorts, eh?

SRH

Yeah, they do. But, I've found that they don't kick around on the bank after being hit with a HP. They do when you use a solid.

Anyway ..... SRH

CCI Mini Mag hps...been shooting them in my Kimber and I've shot them in my Winchester model 75 sporter since they came out.

Really no need for anything else.

Shoot squirrels in the head and frogs in the back...

Real frog men just grab them....from what I've saw of the northern squirrels one could almost grab them if you kept a peanut in one hand..

Not such a great idea- squirrel grabbin' Back when I was about 10, my best friend chased a fox squirrel across the yard, and the rodent headed for a window well-ground level of a neighbor's house (built 1928)-- When Dave reached his hand in there to grab the tree rat- it bit him on the thumb-and he had to go through 16 days of Hell- stomach area injections to prevent rabies- he survived- but by a hair's breath-- Don't screw with any rodent or varmint that carries rabies--ever!!

Never been a documented case of transmission of rabies from squirrels to humans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_transmission


http://www.squirrelnutrition.com/blog/do-squirrel-carry-rabies

Best,
Ted

There's a whole lot of wheel-reinvention and making do with as little as possible that is going on out there. The serious squirrel hunters that I know have nearly all gravitated to the extremely accurate sub-sonic hollow points, Eley, SK, and the like. Nuf sed.

Yup. Eley subsonic. HPs are far superior to any thing made by or made from CCI, Winchester, Remington, etc. Not even close. But they do cost.

"Serious" can have totally different meanings to different people. When I was doing my squirrel hunting I considered myself somewhat Serious.
I used ordinary .22 LR standard velocity Solid Points. I never found them lacking in either killing power or practical accuracy.

Serious to me was bringing in the number of squirrels I killed with the least expenditure of shots fired. If I do say so myself I ran a very good average of the ratio of shots per squirrel.

I think, the only way to tell the difference between rimfire ammo is to test at a range with good technique. What distance are we thinking that the typical squirrel is taken, fifty feet give or take? Double that isn't really a far shot. If match ammo picks up a tenth or two of an inch in group size on paper targets, is that translating to the field?

Just have to try them out and see what works. Volume should matter too. One box of Lapuas for a season, or is the box gone in the first fifteen minutes. I like the good stuff, but save it for where I can tell the difference.

Maybe, Teddy- but this was in 1953-1954-- parents were scared stiff about polio, and when David's folks took him to the hospital, they didn't take any chances- as the squirrel apparently "hauled-ass" after he bit my buddy, no way to autopsy the head, as they do with dog bites, so they did the preventative measures-- and David survived-- Going out like the late Alphonse Capone did- from "the sift"- and going out from rabies, both very painful ways to die-- Myself-- when I have a squirrel dropped on the ground from a tree shot with a .22 CCI- HP Mini-Mag, before I pick it up and drop it in the game bag, I whack it hard with a stick- if it moves or even flinches, it gets another Mini-Mag in the ear-- ammo is cheap-- dying from rabies ain't an option.