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My favorite breakfast growing up was fried squirrel with biscuits and squirrel gravy. I don’t know about these squirrel but my goodness that’s delicious.
“22 cal. Verses squirrel and the 22 is undefeated.”
17HMR twice the effective range and the CCI TNT point’s are named that for a reason they obliterate any rodent smaller than about 3lbs the red mist is classic.
The 22 Mag not LR has at most 100 yards of usable range, then in the wind a LOT less. The sleek little 17 in still air can pop PDogs at 250 all day every day and in the wind is still a 150 yard stone cold killer.
Only the 4000+ fps 25-06 with 75gr Vmax poly tips hits harder and out to 400 easy. In La Mesa Texas at my buddies ranch he has a huge Pdog town he has battled for years we set up over ATVs and bipods a couple hundred out and blast all day, the come back at night with the 25s and pop the yotes feasting on the scattered remains of the days shooting it’s a two for one hunt.
If the wind is up only the 25s get brought prethreaded barrels are cheap and so is powder when you load your own shells there is not really an easier case to reload than a -06 based case we do it in the field with a lee hand loader all the time. Same gun , same shell no need to neck size , its prime,pour,seat, no crimp needed on bolt guns. 45 seconds a shell in the field we can shoot till the barrels smoke at his dog town.
Bang wham poof drifting mist , wash rinse and repeat a hundred times they keep popping their heads up and we keep whack a moleing tham..good times good times a case of iced cold Shiner Bock and some sliced Texas grass fed 18 hour post oak smoked beef brisket sandwiches out on the prairie where that cow lived it’s whole life is my idea of perfection. I hope when I walk through those pearly gates on the other side is a large pasture, my fellow cowboys and some cold Shiner Bock and BBQ.
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And the apex predator, Man!
Lol good story
NorCal here. Started off 4 years ago when I saw the first one. After that, I lost all my Peaches, Apples and Lettuce. Three years running and nothing worked. Poison, they put it on top of my peaches for a snack. Then, after working with a trap, I put a mixture of poison and applesauce. Last two months I have trapped 9 and I got to harvest some of my peaches. Applesauce is like crack to them!
Rem 700 in 25-06, 28” 1:9 pacnor 5R custom stainless.
Hand loaded 75gr Vmax at 4100 over the crono. Nothing lives after a hit with it this side of 150lb Central Texas deer. Yotes get limbs on the off side blown off. Pdogs, squirrels and 4# or under varmint simply ceases to exist they are vapor and supersonic chunks. I have killed two at a time with the flying debris of the one hit killings the pdog standing close to it on a number of occasions.
85gr loads kill antelope and small Texas deer like a bolt of lightning hit them. The chest cavity is obliterated only red mush remains inside it looks like someone took a blender to the heart and lungs. Hitting a shoulder is a bad idea it blows out both shoulders and they wheel barrel on the back legs till you hit them again in the boiler room. Neck shots are bang flop as the entire spine and arteries are just gone the exit is softball sized it’s horrific.
The 25-06 is using the same amount of powder that sends a 180gr nosler partition completely through a 1200 lb moose rib cage to rib cage never recovered the round. All that energy instead in a 25 is driving a 75 or 85gr bullet to 4000+ fps it’s overkill at its finest.
The 25-06 is my go to gun for long distance critter work. It’s a 450 yard yote killer and will put down antelope and Texas deer at 400 like a bolt of lightning hit them. I would trust it on West Texas mule deer in 100 grain nosler partitions but I have a 700 LR in 30” pacnor 7 mag for that or the massive and super fun 338 Lapua comes to the party. That lapua dings steel at 1600M on the regular. It’s my Elk across a 600+ meter canyon backpack sling gun. The 7 mag is in the hands as it’s half the mass.
The only more over the top overkill is when I hand load my 7 mag with 100gr Speer varmiters at a crono fly over of 4200 fps those deliver the most impressive bang, audible WHAPPP and mist show from even 400 yard out. Yotes simply come apart too. I don’t hide hunt so blowing one to literal bits is fine by me buzzards gotta eat too.
Never been a fan of fast 22s if I am burning barrels then I want so much more bang poof than a fast 22 could offer. My stable of 6.5mm is getting more love lately the creedmore on the AR10 is a sweet hog gun for long distance feral work, the 6.5mm grendal I have always loved on the AR15 platform for stand 300 and under deer or hogs the 140s in either never get recovered they always pass through from any angle even the Texas heart shot something about the sectional density of the narrow but heavy 6.5mm
Would cats hunt these ground squirrels?
What kind powder you using, Nitro :)
All my overbore stuff gets fed Reloader 22 until the stash is burnt up then the newer more temp stable RL23 gets to party. All of my -06 based case get it. The 25AI,270AI,30-06 plus both 7mags and my 375H&H all run hot and heavy loads of 22 some are down to the grain by hand and at primer flattening levels.
My Marine Corps brother owns a 2000 meter professional operators training range with Doppler radar and he has a pressure piezo unit so I am comfortable loading well above what a manual says I pressure test the gun, brass and load all at once in the real world and work to the limit of the individual firearm.
For my gas guns it’s Reloader 17 in the AR platforms in 6.5,223,300BLK,7.62x39,458SOCOM
Or the Ar10s in 308,338Fed,6.5creed
Pistols and shotguns eat Reddot or the mag pistols and 3.5” supermag 12s eat bluedot.
So yes hot stuff mostly double base nitro.
Recoil therapy...permission to steal that. We call it whack a mole in West Texas, because they keep popping up and down even when they see their buddies get misted.
A 7mag loaded to the gunnels with a hot double base load will test someone’s recoil tolerance when yeeting 100gr Speer thin walls at north of 4200 fps, do that for an afternoon on the prairie and your shoulder lets you know that evening. The shockwave WHHHAAAPPP when you connect with a Pdog is totally worth the sore shoulder. If you want to be “that guy” bring a small bag of 10# steel shot and put it between your shoulder and the bipod riflebutt but know we are going to clown you around the campfire that night.
I remember about fifty years ago the anti-hunters were claiming ground squirrels and Prairie Dogs were becoming extinct due to varmint hunters. I just pulled up a modern satellite photo of my old home (1951) on the High Plains of New Mexico. For miles around you can see prairie dog mounds have taken over the area.
Counted 7 outside my building yesterday.
“They’re like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote”.
They are varmints but they stand up and look at ya. They really are kind of cute.
They have kind of disappeared because the owners of the empty lots have been cutting them far more than they used to.
There is a local pack of coyotes and 3 nesting hawks on my property. It is easier to work with nature than tame it when you can. Though, a varmint shoot is a heck of a lot of fun. Every hawk and eagle withing 10 miles comes over when they hear a 22lr
Lol! I love that movie.
“ They make great pets. They’re actually prairie dogs. I wonder if they taste like a Fox or Cat squirrel I frequently hunt?”
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Perhaps they taste like freshly weaned puppies? /sarc
“They are varmints but they stand up and look at ya. They really are kind of cute.”
They carry bubonic plague and Hantavirus and rabies too. My X wife was a suns up guns up Red Raider girl she thought it was a good idea to pick one up that she called over with corn kernels she was throwing to them. It jumped up in her hands and after eating all the corn decided to scratch her arms...full rabies shot course plus 2000 mg a day of ciprofloxacin for 14 days was the lessons learned.
Nasty little buggers I take great pleasure in literally exploding them with high powered rifle fire into red mist with a utterly satisfying WHHHAAAAAPPPP every time you hit one. If it was up to use ranch people we would exterminate them to the last one. The cows put a hoof down a burrow and get lame have to be shot and hauled off at a big loss of income. F those little rats. Same feelings about feral hogs we kill every one we can see any any means, including suppressor fired autos at night with NVGs, or dogs chasing them to us or cornering them and a turkey shoot. If they are trapped in circle traps you legally cannot let them out or transport them they must be killed on site which is again a turkey shoot. Only a certified wildlife warden or his licenced agent from the state can transport them.
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