Appreciate the info, I'm on 8 acres, but they are everywhere out here, including the neighbors. Any other options for keeping them underground? As much as I wish I could be providing suppressive fire all day, a guy has to work still. I'll reach out later and see our schedules work for a visit. Thank you!
This is my son, he's a little big for his age, but he has real knack for the squirrels
When I was a kid, good pay was $0.25 per tail and paper box of 50 22lr rounds for every 25 tails you turned in to the ranch foreman. We got up early and moved irrigation pipe, shot gophers all day and moved pipe again in the evenings. That made for a full day and extra time shooting and hiking while we watered the hay fields. If we weren't out killing the ground squirrels, we were fixing stuff or sweeping shops or cleaning out barns. If you ran out of ammo and couldn't get another free box, then you had to buy your own or trap enough to get your 25 tails. Real learning experience on trigger control and not pulling the trigger until the shot was right. You found out quickly that a semiautomatic rifle was nice but could lead you to several fast misses if you weren't careful. When you were doing good at collecting tails, sometimes you'd keep back any tails over 25 just to have a few spare tails to keep your rifle full when you had a bad day of shooting. We weren't old enough to buy ammo yet so little did we know that the ammo we were shooting was like $0.25 for a box of 50 when you bought a brick of 500. Back when a Marlin 60 was and a 10/22 were under $150. The kid with the most tails at the end of the summer got a new 22 rifle as the grand prize. Not many places anymore that will give boys 12 to 16 a rifle, box of shells, and free run of 10,000 acres of irrigated fields anymore. The late 80's and early 90's were a pretty awesome time to grow up.Listen guys.
The boy’s a decent shot.
And I don’t think you guys really understand what kinda problem I have with these things.
If I can’t pay the mortgage, it doesn’t matter if the ground squirrels are gone.
Good days for sure.
That was a pretty big stack of cash for a 10 year old! The bounty was pulled after that dayI ran one of these a lot on ranch I was working in my younger days. Very effective on prairie dogs. You get pretty body sore from the concussion though.
It is great practice. 50 to 75 yard shots mostly, scope and tripod. Tripod zeroed at 75. Occasional 90 yard shot. Beyond that you start sacrificing ammo. Surprisingly dead nuts accurate at 75 to 80 yards though. And man it's fun.
I wasn’t planning a trip out there this year until now……….
