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Favorite Squirrel guns

Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:26 am
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
13176 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:26 am
Who has one?
I've kille squirrels with everything from my Single Six revolver to my Predator Recurve
(just one with each), but my favorite squirrel weapon is my Marlin 39 .22.
It's a lever action carbine with 2-7x33 Redfield and it can't wait to drop some tree rats this year.
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:26 am to
ma b're hands
Posted by speckledtrout
Birmingham, AL
Member since Apr 2011
2035 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:30 am to
quote:

Marlin 39 .22.
It's a lever action carbine with 2-7x33 Redfield and it can't wait to drop some tree rats this year.


Nice! I have an old Savage .22 semi-auto with a 3-9x32. We hunt the Tennessee River bottoms that have those towering oaks all over the place.
Posted by Slickback
Deer Stand
Member since Mar 2008
27686 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:37 am to
20 gauge Wingmaster. Can't wait to shoot some doves with it in a couple weeks and then some tree rats a few weeks after that.
Posted by Nodust
Member since Aug 2010
22635 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:41 am to
Sevens 22 single shot. Brings me back to childhood days.
Posted by hashbrowns
Shitholeastan
Member since Nov 2011
2380 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:42 am to
I've always just used my 870 12 gauge. Been thinking about a 10/22 lately for the tree rats.
Posted by Tino
:yawn:
Member since Dec 2004
86225 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:44 am to
Remington 1100 20 gauge
Posted by Ole Geauxt
KnowLa.
Member since Dec 2007
50880 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:49 am to
22 short..nice and quiet.

just in case you accidently misread the pamphlet and started hunting a day or 2 early..
Posted by faxis
La.
Member since Oct 2007
7773 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:53 am to
quote:

but my favorite squirrel weapon is my Marlin 39 .22.


I could not agree more.

Posted by Pintail
Member since Nov 2011
10477 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 12:01 pm to
Most of the time I will use my 12 gauge but the most fun gun to use for squirrel is my bolt action .410.
Posted by greasemonkey
Macclenny Fl aka south JAWJA
Member since Aug 2012
2765 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 1:09 pm to
Belguim Browning SA22..sweetest shooting 22 eva..
of course that is IMHO..


Posted by billybobtiger
mississippi delta
Member since Jan 2012
180 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 2:01 pm to
Double barrel .410 I have had since I was 8 years old.
Posted by tkr1407
Nawfiest Laweezianna
Member since Aug 2011
3132 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 2:08 pm to
12 guage
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38774 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 2:36 pm to
12 gauge auto 5 with a full choke "lead only" barrel. No interchangeable chokes, so it doesn't qualify to do much else.
Posted by Mung
NorCal
Member since Aug 2007
9054 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 2:40 pm to
20ga Browning Gold Hunter. For some reason that thing is a squirrel killing machine.
Posted by fisherbm1112
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
6567 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 3:00 pm to
I like the challenge of a .22 pistol with iron sights. Anyone can sit back and pop them with a scoped rifle. If we are taking about long guns I like my Remington Speedmaster with irons.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 4:28 pm to
I like using powpow's old 16ga for nostalgic reasons, but it's just too damn easy. See squirrel, blast top of tree, collect shot to hell squirrel.

Putting .22 bullets in their ears is so much more challenging. And they're much nicer to clean when they don't have guts full of 6 shot.
Posted by Boats n Hose
NOLA
Member since Apr 2011
37248 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 7:24 pm to
quote:

Squirrel gun

Is that like a potato gun but loaded with a squirrel?
Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
3185 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 9:07 pm to
My favorite squirrel slayer definitely has to be my old Westchester bolt action .410 with a really long barrel. I picked it up for $40 in a pawn shop when I turned 18 years old.

It didn't have a front sight (had fallen out), but I found a little machine set screw that threaded into the hole just perfectly....it's still there and in use.

That thing has bagged everything under the sun from dove to deer.
This post was edited on 8/23/12 at 9:08 pm
Posted by Chili Davis
Wichita, KS
Member since Nov 2010
816 posts
Posted on 8/23/12 at 11:00 pm to
I've got an old single shot H&R .410 that I like to use. Tons of fun to shoot, but the ammo is hell on a wallet.
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