Squirrel ammo?

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Had good luck last season with hollow point .22lr ammo on squirrels, clean kills.
This season grabbed a handful of round nose Rem Thunderbolts figuring a squirrel needs nothing special. They did not perform as well on game as I had hoped.

What ammo do you use in .22lr for Grey Squirrel?
 
Any .22 bullet will kill them. But a hollow-point kills them very quickly. A solid round nose drills a hole in them; the hollow point, well, you know.
 
Someone had a 17 rem for moose thread. Should start a 375 Rum thread for squirrel.

But in reality a grey squirrel getting hit by a 22 lr would be like us getting hit be a lead the size of a softball. Any should do it if you do your part. The only consideration would be damage or not. For me it is not, just kill the pests.
 
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Someone had a 17 rem for moose thread. Should start a 375 Rum thread for squirrel.

But in reality a grey squirrel getting hit by a 22 lr would be like us getting hit be a lead the size of a softball. Any should do it if you do your part. The only consideration would be damage or not. For me it is not, just kill the pests.
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yup, like us getting hit with a cannon ball
 
any 22 cal rim fire to the head will do the job .I use a 22 wm for all my small game .just find a oak tree and sit down and wait and watch nick them in the bean when thy stick there head out to look at you Dutch
 
Not many squirrels on the prairies but I've taken more then a few ditch rats with .22 shorts and some CB Longs. Within 10-15yds they work wonders and barely a sound out of an old Lakefield Mk 1.
 
Head shots are great but it doesn't always work out that way. We hunt with iron sights and shoot them high in the tree tops....and they get a moving and don't sit tight after first crack. The round nose gave no expansion on less than perfect shots and gave us some runners that we had to really work for. The round nose did kill clean on head, and spine. I will be going back to hollow points for sure because we had more runners than usual, some took 3 rounds. You'll see in the one picture, we had a Grey take cover in a burrow and also had a Black dive in a stump.
Love taking my nephew out for squirrels, loads of fun.
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I have a D-Rock tool and turn CCI SV's into hollow points for squirrel hunting.... but Mini-Mag HP's are excellent also... guys that don't hunt squirrels don't understand how tough they are on anything less than a sqaure head shot... sometimes scampering 10 feet puts them out of reach. Every shot should be a head shot, they just don't always work out that way. I mostly use HM2 rifles now for squirrels... the 17 grain V-Max bullets really anchor them fast... but every once in a while I like to take out one of my Full Stock LR rifles.
 
Yes... it is a lot of fun... I like the stealth necessary, I like the type of precision shooting required, I like the terrain and timber that squirrels inhabit... and they are tasty little suckers too...
 
It's not the ammo choice, it's shot placement that's key. But they are tough and strong-willed. I take them regularly with a high-power .177 pellet out to 35 yards with head shots. But I'm scoped for their tiny kill zone. Nothing wrong with open sights, it's just more challenging.

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If your not eating them. Smoke them in the bread basket. My pal has shot a couple muzzles off squirrels and had them "climb and hide". Kinda like shooting someone in the ####. Not a great way to die.

Mount sweetness your nephew has the coolest squirrel hunting shirt ever! Looks like a cool kid, having a blast!
 
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I had that shirt custom made for him last Christmas, glad he wears it.
By the way, we eat all squirrels that we kill. We slow cook them and then dice up the meat, mix it with mayo and make Bacon Double Squirrel Sandwiches.
It's hard to beat a squirrel/mayo/bacon sandwich on buttered toast.
 
Mount Sweetness said:
Had good luck last season with hollow point .22lr ammo on squirrels, clean kills.
This season grabbed a handful of round nose Rem Thunderbolts figuring a squirrel needs nothing special. They did not perform as well on game as I had hoped.

What ammo do you use in .22lr for Grey Squirrel?
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See the same thing on gophers out west - the hollow points definitely kill cleaner. The federal bulk pack HP are my go-to but haven't seen a lot of them around. I'd down to just a few cartons left.
 
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