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View Poll Results: Do you hunt squirrel?
Yup shotgun. 21 30.43%
Yup 22. 52 75.36%
Yup Air Rifle. 10 14.49%
Yup slingshot. 3 4.35%
Yup archery. 7 10.14%
Yup 17 HMR! 3 4.35%
Whats a Squirrel? 2 2.90%
No, I don't DO Treerat. 1 1.45%
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Old 02-05-2005, 12:25 PM
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.17HMR not so bad!

The weather has ben improving this week!
And the Treerats are out!

With the snow pack making walking a pain, I decided to use my Contender, with a .17HMR barrel.
Yesterday my take was 6, I was siting along a hedge row of a farm field, I wasnt trying to walk alot .
I was pleasntly suprised with the shots I made, along with the results from the shots. I feel that most of the eatable meat is on the rear of the treerat. So, naturaly I try for head and torso shots.
I dont eat treerat, but I did do a post mortem on them this time.
I found that there is alot of meat still on them! I did find a tinny fragment on a rat taken aprox 30y.
Next time Im going to have my diggy for some proof(I think normaly carcace pics, are in poor taste, and abit on the disturbed side, but this is in the name of science )


Buddy (the cat) had himself a feast! He will now grant me 6 more good seasons, for the sacrafice! bwahahaha

P.S. Im not trying to say that the .17HMR is superior to the .22lr for treerat hunting, Just saying that it is a viable choice.
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