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Single pump, there's your problem

Posted by Dave_K on July 2, 2020 at 05:43:13

In Reply to: RE: Mark Rober ties to defend his bird feeder from squirrels posted by deathtube 667 on July 2, 2020 at 02:39:18:

I have a Remington AirMaster 77 with iron sights and use some cheap pointed pellets I got at Walmart about 15 years ago (Crosman?)

The rifle takes a maximum of 10 pumps, and I usually give it 8. It easily punches a hole straight through the biggest squirrel. I aim for the rib cage (lungs/heart). The one I got in my attic was a broadside bull's eye and it was down almost instantly, one reflex jump at impact and then a flop. It left a fair pool of blood, I think I probably got the heart.

When I killed the first one outside, I was shooting 30 feet up between the slats in the gable end vent and didn't have the best angle. The squirrel made it to the ground and 10-15 feet out into my yard before death. The one I shot this spring was up near the roof line. It scrambled up onto the roof and immediately died, then slid off the roof like a limp sack. It lived maybe 1-2 sec after the shot.

I live in suburbia, in a heavily wooded 1.1 acre lot. There's no way would I ever fire a .22 around here. It's too dangerous.

BTW, it's completely pointless to shoot squirrels in your yard. Kill one and another will take its place the next day; their supply is endless. And the new one won't know where his predecessor's stashes are, so he'll just make new holes. Probably the best way to keep them from making stashes in your yard is to feed them constantly. My Dad was big into feeding the birds, which also meant feeding the squirrels. They were happy to eat seed all year round rather than stockpiling for the winter. I don't remember any squirrel damage to our lawn, which I had to mow.

In my case, I really don't care if they make holes in my yard. I'm not really into lush, manicured, golf course lawns. Here in the granite state with minimal natural topsoil and tons of trees, nice lawns require a lot of irrigation, fertilizer, and herbicide. It's a waste of water because most of it ends up going to the trees, whose root systems out compete the grasses. And excess fertilizer runoff is ruining our lakes.

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