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Justin posted a new PDF ground squirrel target for anyone who wants it. Head over to the Squirrel Shooting Forums to get it.

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The Verminator and I were getting drunk this weekend during the Walla Walla Holiday Wine Release, and decided we needed to kill some flippin squirrels. Unfortunately, all the “killin type” squirrels are hibernating for the winter, which leaves us feeling more like girls than men. (Which of course means that all the crap that the tree huggers say about us over on Youtube.com must be true, because I feel way more like a man when I get to explode squirrels with my rifle than when I have to stand around sipping wine.)

Of course, if you’ve been reading all the crap the squirrel huggers have been posting to the squirrel killing videos over on Youtube.com, you would feel sorry for me. Can you imagine the size of my penis, if the only way I can feel like a man is to shoot my .17 HMR? LOL Have you ever seen how small a 17 caliber round is….? It’s a wonder I have kids. ROFLMAO (My spell checker tried to replace ROFLMAO with RIFLEMAN… Finally Microsoft got something right. LOL)

OK, sorry, I just had to throw that out cause it makes me laugh.

Here’s the latest free hunting target that the Verminator and I worked up. This target is really good for getting your 17 HMR sighted in for squirrel shooting season. And since you have 4 months before the ground squirrels stick their heads out of the ground again, before getting them blown off by us real men with penises smaller than a 17 grain ballistic tip, make sure you grab it and head out to the gun range and practice.

This target is 388K PDF. Just right click on it and hit print. If you can, tell your printer to print outside the margins. My printer tries to print at 97% instead of 100%, so that it can keep the margins at 1/2 inch.

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I was messing around today and made a 100-yard rifle target. It’s built on a 1/2 in grid so that you can figure out how many clicks you’re off. (Of course I’m never off, so this is just for those of you out there who actually miss from time to time and need to sight in your rifles.)

(362K .PDF)

You have two options. You can right click on the link and “save target as…” on your computer, to print later, or you can click on the link and print the target after the .PDF document opens. You might have to set your printer to print outside it’s margins if you want an exact 1/2 grid. My printer defaulted to 94% so that it could stay within it’s margins, and that caused the squares on the target to be about 1/32 smaller than they should have been.

If any of you have a squirrel, bird or varmint picture you want turned into a target, let me know. Since the 1/2 grid system is now built, it will be easy to put that over any picture you have, and make a great target out of it. (Please, no ex-wives or girlfriends, I get into enough trouble already.)

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Here’s the free hunting target I’ve been promising you. I made it out of the Sniper Squirrel picture that Mashby made and said we could use. Now you will be able to sight in your 17 HMR, 223 Remington or 22-250 on a target that looks like it’s shooting back. You’ve got to admit it’s better to practice shooting your rifle against a squirrel sniper that just shooting a simple squirrel silhouette target.

Those of you who are shooting the Hornady 17 or 20 grain ballistic tip bullet aught to try taping a ketchup packet from McDonalds behind the target on the 10 ring and then video taping the results when you shoot it with your 17’s. It’s cool and makes the target look like it’s bleeding. Which is what you want when facing another sniper head to head. (Nothing like seeing an exploding squirrel to whet the appetite of a squirrel hunter.)

I haven’t tried shooting this squirrel target with a ketchup packet behind it with a 223 ballistic tip, but I’m sure when I do it will be cool. Send me any videos or still pictures you make of shooting this target and I will post them here for posterities sake. Make sure you record how long the shots were so that we can enter you in the squirrel sniper hall of fame; “if you’re any good”. Maybe if you’re awesome we will ask you to join our squirrel hunting team next year at the Unity, Oregon squirrel shoot.

This free target is a PDF document. Just click on it and it should open in a PDF Viewer. Once it does, just push the print button, and you should get a nice color target of two squirrel snipers shooting at you. The size of the PDF target download is 469K.

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Here is another Free PDF squirrel hunting target. The squirrel is a little small, but that should just make you a better shot.

Free California Ground Squirrel Hunting Target

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I made a Grey Squirrel target for those of you who actually hunt these things out of trees. Don’t get me wrong, a squirrel is a squirrel, but I prefer to site a couple of hundred yards away with my Bushmaster or my 17 HMR Savage and explode them from a benchrest while sipping on a soda and spitting sunflower seeds.

I prefer ground squirrels to tree squirrels because there are usually a whole lot more of them, they’ve been eating sage, so they’re already seasoned, and it doesn’t require me to traipse through the woods to find them. (I used to be OK in the woods, but I’m now old, overweight and so out of shape that I can’t sneak up on anything anymore; hence the benchrest.)

The first target is a PDF and is 302K.

I tried something new and made a Word Document .doc file for those of you at work LOL. The word doc file is 321K.

Have fun using these free targets and tell your friends and neighbors where you got them.

Thanks,

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I got tired of buying squirrel hunting targets, so I made some of my own. I will be adding more targets over the next few days, including some for pigeons (Flying Rats), Ravens and other types of ground and tree squirrels. This one is of a California ground squirrel.

To get the best picture, I would just turn the ink setting to draft mode so that you don’t use up a ton of ink. The squirrel pictures are aprox. 8 inches wide by 4.5 inches tall, so I put two on the target. At that size, it pretty much makes a life sized target of a small to medium sized ground squirrel. (I prefer to practice on the small ones, because it makes hitting the big ones just that much easier.

This target is a PDF, and prints perfect.

The next two targets are just JPG’s in case you want to download them and edit how they look and feel.

This picture is 200dpi by 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Some people have a hard time printing this, so I’ve added a 72dpi by 8.5 inches by 11 inches picture below. (72 dots per inch is the normal viewing resolution for the web, so this may work better for some people.)

This picture is 200dpi by 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

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