squirrels and rabbits

[Catfish]

I don`t hunt small game much any more, but carried a single shot .22 most of the time for both rabbits and squirrel. With a rifle you have to watch where you shoot closer because the bullet will go farther. The best year I ever had was 17 of 18 running rabbits with that old single shot .22, and I hit the 18 th. but lefty, who at the time was 85, shot it because it was still dragging itself. You will have to run down some rabbits when shooting them with a .22, but once hit they don`t go very fast.
For those get started useing a shotgun, use nothing smaller than 5 shot for rabbit and squirrel and with a .410 number 4 shot is better for squirrel. 6`s and smaller just don`t penitrate squirrels, those little suckers are tough.