rimfire 0 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 (edited) I've been leaving the squirrels alone a bit since I started my new job partly because I didn't have the time and partly because I'd shot most of them, and the ones I hadn't shot and killed, I'd shot and missed at! Therefore they were wary (and rightly so!) of coming into my garden for acorns! It been about a month since i last shot one so decided to have a pop as I'm off work with the deadliest of diseases, man flu! We have a sweet chestnut tree at the front of the house which is coming into fruit and the squirrels go mental for it, but with it being on the front garden I can't shoot because of the neighbors opposite being only 50 yards away, so I have to take my chances in the garden. Anyway, I poke my head out the window for a speculative look and spot a tasty woodpigeon on the lawn about 40 yards away. As I open the window though he smells a rat and buggers off, but just as he does, mr squirrel comes bounding down the garden wall. He jumps down onto an oak tree some 50 yards away and I slot a .22 accupell right onto the back of his noggin and he's down without so much as a twitch, presumably because of the huge exit wound on the other side where half his head's missing! The noise then flushes not one, but two squirrels out of the undergrowth! But too quickly they bound up a tree and are into the branches. Undeterred I decide to have a mosey down the garden, man flu or no, so on goes my sheepskin airman's jacket and I trundle down expecting every living thing to have buggered off within 100 yards. Not so; as I pick up the squirrel by the tree, i lob him into my squirrel bush for charlie and as he hits the deck, it flushes out ANOTHER squirrel who stops on a tree 5 yards away and eyes me up, pop goes the falcon and squizzer no2 is in the bag with a pellet right in his ear. Feeling right pleased with myself I go down the garden to a beech tree I know they like and lo and behold FOUR squirrels are there munching away having not noticed the 2 squirrels I nailed no more than 20 yards from them! So, positioning myself against a water butt I take aim at the closest and nail him in a branch 20 yards away right in the ear, he just drops like a stone onto the compost heap without so much as a noise or a twitch and the rest keep feeding away like nothing happened! 10 minutes pass before I can get a clean shot again, but then squirrel number 4 pokes his head out and another accupell meets him right in the neck, but as he tumbles down he lands onto a wall and falls into next door. Damn! the other 2 squirrels decide to scarper but not before I pick off another one with a chest shot from underneath right into the heart/lung zone and down he goes dead as a doornail. Could not believe it! Firstly how quick they've bred and how darwins theory of evolution has failed because clearly the offspring of the surviving squirrels did not learn their parent's art of dodging pellets! atb, Rimfire p.s I'll get some photo's in as soon as i can be arsed to leave the warm house with my camera and go to the bottom of the cold garden to fetch dead squirrels out of a bush... Edited October 13, 2009 by rimfire Quote Link to post
Lee85 44 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 well done, sounds like youve got a nice garden mate Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Awsome write up buddy But why waste the squizzers on Charles? Get em cleaned and in the oven Phantom Quote Link to post
rimfire 0 Posted October 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Thanks for the positive reviews guys! Our garden is a good size, we have a wooded section at the bottom with about 4 drays in a 100 yard area so there's plenty of action! I nailed another one this afternoon with a 45 yard standing shot right in the spine/neck which I was pretty chuffed with! so that makes 6 for the day! I've tried eating squirrel before, but its not for me... wanted to like it but found it quite tough and greasy, plus their a bugger to skin! I've got some photo's as well as soon as I can figure out a way of getting the photos off my phone and onto my computer! Quote Link to post
zini 1,939 Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Good write up mate Zini Quote Link to post
Guest lavyheed Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Nice haul for 25 mins Quote Link to post
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