Henry Rifles has a new varmint rifle out, that I can’t wait to try (I already ordered one in 17HMR!). Their new varmint rifle is an all-stainless steel, semi-heavy barrel, single-shot, bolt action rifle chambered in .22 LR, .22 Magnum or the .17 HMR. It comes with a 4x scope with a cantilever scope mount at no extra charge. If you prefer not to use a scope, it’s also outfitted with a set of Williams Fire Sights. Stick all of this on a one piece synthetic stock, and you have the start of a great squirrel gun. Since Henry is known for the smoothest of actions, I can’t wait to try it out in the squirrel fields this spring.
Stay tuned to find out more after I get it, and if you want to see what I’m talking about, go to Henry’s website to read all about their new Accu-Bolt Varmint Rifle.
I finally broke down and spent the day going through dvd’s from last year’s squirrel shooting trips. I didn’t try to do anything artistic with this video, but it does quell the basic need for seeing squirrels getting whacked… I’ll try to get up some more videos in the next week or two, so check back.
All of these squirrels were shot using my Savage 17hmr accutrigger, with Hornady 17gr ballistic tip bullets. On a side note, there’s nothing like having a video camera mounted on your rifle to show you when you jerk the trigger.
It’s winter, and I’m weary of it. Here’s a 9 minute squirrel shooting video to get every body thinking about the new squirrel hunting season. The squirrels will start popping up in March, and as soon as they start popping up, I’m going to start popping them.
These guys are using a 22 magnum and a hand held camera, so the camera work is a little shaky from time to time, but we all started out that way.
I was looking at the squirrel shooting videos that I have on Youtube tonight, and decided to see how many video views we’ve had since the first squirrel videos went up. According to the viewing records, our squirrel shooting videos have been watched over 800,000 times in the last 2 years.
We get almost 1,000,000 page views a year on shootingsquirrels.com, it kind of makes me wonder how many people we’ve sent to other Youtube squirrel videos from this site, since we post quite a few from other people too. You’re probably wondering why I’m wondering this…. Or Not.
Well, the reason is because I’m looking for a new title for myself, like “Squirrel Video King” or the “Squirrel Splatter King” or just “That Weird Ass Guy Who Films Dead Squirrels”…
What do you guys think? (Or should I just start taking my Meds again and forget about it?)
I love watching what .223’s and .22-250’s do to Prairie Dogs. I have a couple of friends who live in Montana, and I really need to get over there and shoot some P Dogs with my Bushmaster .223 next year. The sound of a .223 ballistic tip hitting a dog has got to be way more satisfying than the sound of a .17HMR hitting a ground squirrel…. (OK, I’m pretty sure that I don’t really believe that. I’m sure that both sounds are VERY satisfying. LOL)
The North American Hunter magazine is now offering shooters on ShootingSquirrels.com the chance to Test Free Hunting Gear…And Keep It!. So, if you are interested in getting a free issue of North American Hunter, which is a magazine that fosters an appreciation of the outdoor heritage and the relationship between hunting and conservation, as well as provides how-to editorials on big game hunting, small game hunting, upland bird hunting and waterfowl hunting, as well as giving you the chance to test hunting gear, then check them out. Also, if you join their hunt club testing group, you get free gear to evaluate and keep. They’ve given away more than $3,000,000 worth of outdoor and hunting gear this way, and with the cheap crowd we have around here, that should work out perfectly… LOL
My kids and I like this movie. I know most of you redneck squirrel whackers won’t admit to liking something like this, but you should at least like Doug’s squirrel joke (Doug is the talking dog for you boys from Montana….).
I was driving by one of the parks in town today and heard a crunch. Since I wasn’t paying any attention to what the heck was going on around me, it startled me. Which made me realize that I was daydreaming and could have run over 3 handycapped kids and a church lady without even knowing it. BUT, lucky for me, when I looked in my rear view mirror, what I saw was a squirrel trouting on the street behind me.
Those of us who shoot squirrels on a regular basis know that if you get a perfect head shot, and take out the brain, (what little there is), the autonomic reflexes in the squirrel make it flop all over the place, and we call that trouting. It looks like a Marlin tail walking across the bay. LOL
So, obviously I’m so good that even when I’m not paying attention, I can get a brain shot on a squirrel with my truck. Dang I’m good! They don’t call me Squirrel Sniper for nothing… (OK, Yea, I named myself Squirrel Sniper… So What.)
Monroe shocks and struts is running an ad campaign about how squirrels make bad decisions and that drivers who want to save the lives of squirrels need to make sure they have good shocks and struts for quick and even stopping power. It’s a pretty creative ad campaign for the average citizen, but it makes me want to go take the shocks and struts off my truck…
Monroe is running their ad campaign on a site called SavingSquirrels.com, I wonder if we should sue the people over at Monroe shocks and struts… Doesn’t SavingSquirrels.com sound a lot like ShootingSquirrels.com?
The people at Monroe put a frogger-like game on their site. The object of the game is to get your squirrel across the road while picking up all the nuts. You can also pick up shocks and struts to stop the traffic and get extra points… I think. If you want to play, wander over to the Squirrel Frogger Game Page at SavingSquirrels.com. It’s all I can do not to run the squirrel under the tires of the monster truck. The game makes me “Conflicted”, I want to win, but I don’t want to help the squirrel. LOL
Quick little video of a rabbit getting shot by a 17 HMR Sako. the 17HMR is one of the best small game rifles made, and can take a rabbit or squirrel out to 165 yards with just a few inches of drop from zero. The ideal sighting range for a 17 HMR is 85 yards, which puts a 17 grain ballistic tip bullet at plus or minus .75 of an inch between 35 yards and 135 yards. That lets put the cross hairs directly on the rabbit or squirrel, and be off by less than an inch.
