zero for squirrels
 

Hey guys-
I have tried to slow life down a little bit and have returned to hunting squirrels with my favorite .22. Having a blast but its been a long time since I've messed with a 22, silly me.

What distance do you squirrel hunters zero for a 22LR?

Dunno. I don't use a scope for squirrel.

I practice at 25 and 50 for them.

GoodOlBoy

dead on at 50 for me. the 17 rimfires are +1/2" at 50.
RR

I try to zero my squirrel rifle for what I think is the distance most of my shots will be. I don`t think there is any best best yardage for everyone to use.

It depends
 

Where I hunt, I sight in my .22 l.r. rifles to be an inch high at 50 yards. All the best...
Gil

I sight in my squirrel 22s at 35yds.

Sight in with a scope and high rings at 30 yards. You will be 1/5 an inch high at 20 yards and a 1/5 inch low at 50 yards. this is kind of unique in guns and most tree rats at 50 yard high in trees arn't a real visable shot anyway.

25 yards works well for me.

Zero for Squirrels
 

Like someone else here, I would prefer to sight in at 35 yds. thinking that is probably the optimum range. However my club only has 25 & 50-yd ranges and our rules require that you shoot only from the bench and at targets only on the backstop. I therefore sight all my .22s in at 50-yds. I use exclusively 1" diameter big game type scopes which are parallax-adjusted to 100-yds. This can occasionally cause a problem on close-in shots if I don't make a conscious effort to mount my gun so as to look directly through the center of the scope. However, as long as a do my part, it appears that the 50-yd zero is okay.

I sight my .22 Squirrel rifles to be dead center at 35 yards.

I also use the 25 yd. zero then shoot it at 50 to see where my particular 22 round is hitting. I do think the 35 yd, one is closer to ideal.

I dunno most squirrels I shoot are within 80 feet. So thinking about it I don't really NEED a zero further out than that.

GoodOlBoy

This subject comes up now and again and I always go to a person that has done extensive reserch on the very subject.

"For tree squirrels, I would move the zero range back to 50 yards. That would give you virtually no rise at mid range, and your drop at 75 yards would be less than 2 inches. Lethal hits on tree squirrels beyond 75 yards are pretty "iffy" at best."
Larry Lachuck
Gun Digest Book of the .22 Rimfire
published 1978

Best,
Ed

25 yards works great for me too.