re: How to get started hunting squirrels?

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Don't get a .22. The rnge is too great

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Disagree. This was from this morning. .22 is way more fun and makes cleaning then eating, a lot nicer.






If you only have a shotgun, I’d use that.

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Don't get a .22. The rnge is too great. It might not be leagle. Get a shotgun, 20 ga on up, with hi powered 6's. Slip in 30 min before legal and start slow creeping

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If you haven't got a lot of sense a .22 is a bad idea...if you are shooting squirrels out of trees by the time the projectile returns to earth it will have hit so many limbs and leaves and all manner of shite in a typical river bottom that it wouldn't hurt anything. Its unlikely to hurt anything on its way up for the same reasons. Shooting them on the ground is also pretty safe unless you are shooting at them without any idea what might be behind them. Thats when sense comes in...if you ain't got enough discipline to pass up questionable shots you probably ought not be in the woods with any gun but a shotgun will be infinitely safer than a rifle in that situation.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s in metro Atlanta and from the time I was 8 or 9 years old I was shooting squirrels with a .22 and had enough sense not to level off without any clue of what was behind where I was shooting. Most of the time I was shooting at about a 60 degree angle. There would be 4-5 or more us doing this and if anyone leveled off and fired a shot he'd have had to fight all of us...but if you ain't got good sense a shotgun is far less likely to hurt someone.