First of all, all of us hard core types know the real threat in the woods isnt these:
All they will do is steal your pic-n-ic basket.
The real menace is these:
While City Slicker Fudds worry about the big wombling picnic basket theives, those of us who have been there, and done that, know Squirrels are the real danger, they are like the Predators of the real world, quick, agile, and always go straight for the nuts!
To that end I realised I needed a real rifle, one that was quick pointing, easy to use in the bush, reliable, rugged, with no floppy detachable mag that you will fumble with while being charged by some badass squirell with a machete, and with power, real power, not some sissy-ass 270/30-06 BS.
The answer was obvious, 300 Win Mag baby....
So I looked around and remembered I had this sweet-azzed Howa in 300 Blackout. Now thats a good cartridge for northern mosquitos and maybe even a blackfly or two, but otherwise is a junk round, still it was a cute rifle:
Mind you, cute or not that rifle needed to go, I planned to swap the 300 Blackout to something more sissy-ish, like 223, for cheap range blasting, so after having a 26inch 223 thrown on the howa instead, I realised I had the perfect barrel for the ultimate in close quareter, heavy brush, fast moving death machine fighting rifles.
Take the 14 inch 300 Blackout barrel, llija (1 in 8 twist), and ream it out to 300Win Mag! I mean bango baby! All I needed was a Howa with a Magnum bolt face. that was easy enough, a Vanguard (almost a howa) showed up in the EE, with the awful vanguard weinie barrel and thin little stock. Easy fix though, beause I had a spare long action Howa stock, whose barrel channel is much bigger... all I need was to put the pieces together...
And that creates this. A 14 inch long barreled, super quick pointing, high power, full on awesome brush busting, squirrel capping, pic-n-ick basket saving bundle of awesomness!
Obviously if you are going toe to toe with natures most dangerous killers you dont want some lame-o fuddly scope, you want the tacticoolest heads up, eyes open glass, so a trijicon red dot it is.
Obviously the question is how does it all work...
At 50 yds, not bad, the trijicon can be turned down enough that even with my crappy eyesight and a bench I could hit the paper pretty well, and previously with a 24X scope on it, the rifle still threw cheap-o rem junk into about a 2 wide - 3.5 inch high group. Which, if you consider that most squirrel attacks occur at less than arms length, means nothing.
Now with the cheapest federal 150 gr at 100 yds it was not quite as good,
Thats 20 shots, in about 4 minutes, but I will admit that at that range the red dot does not have enough umph for my eyes, but still, I could hit a squirrel, if three of them were holding hands...
Still, its obvious the issue of squirrel/bear defence has been solved,
And since i solved the Deer defence with a 7X57
All that seems left is defence against these:
Maybe a 458WM in 12 inch?
All they will do is steal your pic-n-ic basket.
The real menace is these:
While City Slicker Fudds worry about the big wombling picnic basket theives, those of us who have been there, and done that, know Squirrels are the real danger, they are like the Predators of the real world, quick, agile, and always go straight for the nuts!
To that end I realised I needed a real rifle, one that was quick pointing, easy to use in the bush, reliable, rugged, with no floppy detachable mag that you will fumble with while being charged by some badass squirell with a machete, and with power, real power, not some sissy-ass 270/30-06 BS.
The answer was obvious, 300 Win Mag baby....
So I looked around and remembered I had this sweet-azzed Howa in 300 Blackout. Now thats a good cartridge for northern mosquitos and maybe even a blackfly or two, but otherwise is a junk round, still it was a cute rifle:
Mind you, cute or not that rifle needed to go, I planned to swap the 300 Blackout to something more sissy-ish, like 223, for cheap range blasting, so after having a 26inch 223 thrown on the howa instead, I realised I had the perfect barrel for the ultimate in close quareter, heavy brush, fast moving death machine fighting rifles.
Take the 14 inch 300 Blackout barrel, llija (1 in 8 twist), and ream it out to 300Win Mag! I mean bango baby! All I needed was a Howa with a Magnum bolt face. that was easy enough, a Vanguard (almost a howa) showed up in the EE, with the awful vanguard weinie barrel and thin little stock. Easy fix though, beause I had a spare long action Howa stock, whose barrel channel is much bigger... all I need was to put the pieces together...
And that creates this. A 14 inch long barreled, super quick pointing, high power, full on awesome brush busting, squirrel capping, pic-n-ick basket saving bundle of awesomness!
Obviously if you are going toe to toe with natures most dangerous killers you dont want some lame-o fuddly scope, you want the tacticoolest heads up, eyes open glass, so a trijicon red dot it is.
Obviously the question is how does it all work...
At 50 yds, not bad, the trijicon can be turned down enough that even with my crappy eyesight and a bench I could hit the paper pretty well, and previously with a 24X scope on it, the rifle still threw cheap-o rem junk into about a 2 wide - 3.5 inch high group. Which, if you consider that most squirrel attacks occur at less than arms length, means nothing.
Now with the cheapest federal 150 gr at 100 yds it was not quite as good,
Thats 20 shots, in about 4 minutes, but I will admit that at that range the red dot does not have enough umph for my eyes, but still, I could hit a squirrel, if three of them were holding hands...
Still, its obvious the issue of squirrel/bear defence has been solved,
And since i solved the Deer defence with a 7X57
All that seems left is defence against these:
Maybe a 458WM in 12 inch?
