Longhunter1750
Well-Known Member
Not long range hunting but challenging just the same. Most with the Taurus 990 and a few with the Single Six.
-
If you are being asked to change your password, and unsure how to do it, follow these instructions. Click here
Handgun Squirrels
- Thread starter Longhunter1750
- Start date
Help Support Long Range Hunting Forum
engineer40
Well-Known Member
Good shooting! What kind of ranges were most shots taken? Just curious.
Longhunter1750
Well-Known Member
On average I would say 25 to 35 yards,but I have taken them out to about 50 with a 2x scope.
engineer40
Well-Known Member
Sweet... I just posted a couple days ago that I got my first pistol that's set up for small game hunting. I'm really looking forward to trying it this year.
http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f29/my-new-small-game-handgun-set-up-173637/
Longhunter1750
Well-Known Member
Those are nice!
Longhunter, that a nice Steel Challenge Gun/Small Game Gun!
I love to squirrel hunt with revolvers! Mainly my S & W Mod. 17, or Mod.34. But have also used S & W Mod.41 Semi-Auto, Single Six, S & W Mod.48 and going to try out my Steel Challenge Rimfire Browning Buckmark. Squirrel season starts on Aug.15 here, but heat and bugs almost make it unbearable.....almost.
I love to squirrel hunt with revolvers! Mainly my S & W Mod. 17, or Mod.34. But have also used S & W Mod.41 Semi-Auto, Single Six, S & W Mod.48 and going to try out my Steel Challenge Rimfire Browning Buckmark. Squirrel season starts on Aug.15 here, but heat and bugs almost make it unbearable.....almost.
Longhunter1750
Well-Known Member
I like my revolvers, got a couple Taurus Trackers and a couple Ruger Single Six's. My daughter and I got my son-in-law a Buckmark for his birthday And I talked him into scoping it, man it's a shooter.
Old Hickory
Well-Known Member
Very nice and great pictures, 1750! I sure like your pistols and I bet your son-in-law really likes his Browning. I carry one while hunting, a Camper Model of the Buckmark. It is a real shooter.
spartacus1239
New Member
Very nice. Miss hunting tree rats. lost my hunting land because my hunting partners wife's mouth...
Old Hickory
Well-Known Member
Dang! What happened?
spartacus1239
New Member
She got in to an argument with the farms owner about milk. So the farmers wife kicked us all off. Really made me mad as there was over 250 acres to hunt. Loaded with small game, deer and coyotes. Hunting land in north east Illinois is VERY hard to come by.
Old Hickory
Well-Known Member
Wow! That's a real bummer!
J E Custom
Well-Known Member
Pistol hunting Squirrels is my favorite way to hunt them. I use a High standard Supermatic Citation 22 lr with a 4x Burris and it does well.
I get harassed buy some of my friends but at the end of the hunt I normally have bragging rites and they get to clean my Squirrels (Who ever kills the least gets to clean the winners Squirrels).
I find that hunting with a pistol makes me hunt quite and more stealthy than relying on a rifle to make up for getting close.
Nice pictures and continued success with your Squirrel hunting.
J E CUSTOM
I get harassed buy some of my friends but at the end of the hunt I normally have bragging rites and they get to clean my Squirrels (Who ever kills the least gets to clean the winners Squirrels).
I find that hunting with a pistol makes me hunt quite and more stealthy than relying on a rifle to make up for getting close.
Nice pictures and continued success with your Squirrel hunting.
J E CUSTOM
