Here’s a fun yet practical .22 LR rifle.

Made by Henry Rifles and is excellent quality.

You might want to keep one in the car, in your pack, for camping, or just plinking.  Take it out on your squirrel hunts.  Give it to a kid and teach ‘em right.

A great rifle to have for bugging out, too.  The Henry Survival Rifle AR-7 stores just about anywhere and is waterproof.

You can read all about this survival rifle and drool all over the rest of the Henry Rifles by getting their beautiful Henry Rifle Catalog.

Enjoy!

Here’s a great video of lots of clean shooting with a .17 HMR – Savage 93R17 and CCI TNT hollow points.

Location:  Enterprise, OR.

Good camera work.  Lots of shots.  Lots of dead sage rats….

Here ya go:

Here’s a pretty good review of the Savage Model 93R17 .17HMR Rifle with Heavy Barrel and Thumbhole stock.  He put a nice Nikon scope on it as well.

The reviewer shoots groups of .17gr Hornady Ballistic Tips and CCI 20 gr Game Points.
Nice rifle.  Watch the review and see what you think.
Enjoy!

Some good, clean footage shooting ground squirrels with a .22 Edgun PCP Air Rifle

Gun: Edgun Matador .22 PCP Air Rifle
Pellets: JSB 18.1gr @ 900fps
Scope: Leaper Accushot SWAT 4-16x 56mm

Note how clear the video is sighting through the scope.  Nice work…

Enjoy all you squirrel killers!

Some interesting footage shooting Sage Rats.

Some good rifle shots and entertaining!

Jennifer and Mat, over at the Crown Cattle Company, which is located near Seneca, between John Day and Burns, Oregon, are offering sage rat shooting for very reasonable rates. In this instance, reasonable means that you have the luxury of showing up from hundreds of miles away and knowing you’ll have a place to shoot squirrels. In my opinion, their rates are great, and I’d sign up in a heartbeat if I was coming in to shoot squirrels from out of the area.

If you want to shoot on their property, you need to call them at (541) 542-2608 and make a reservation before showing up. (What did I just say people? DON’T JUST SHOW UP, CALL FIRST, LIKE A PERSON WITH MANNERS!) They have a 2 page form to fill out that says if you break stuff or yourself, or shoot each other, or shoot cows, horses, chickens, or Big Foot, you will be asked to leave a check for the damages, and then, “Just Leave”!

The Cattle Company’s squirrel shooting rates are:

• $35 per day per hunter Mon. – Thurs.
• $45 per day per hunter Fri. – Sun.
• $15 per day for hunters 12 and under.
• Group rate:  If there are 3 or more hunters in your party, take $5 off per hunter. (12 and under not included in group rate discount.)
• SAGE RAT MOBILE: $30/day

Here are all the rules and regulation, except for the “No shooting Bigfoot type legalese from the back of the form”:

• You must schedule hunting times with the owner prior to your visit.
  1. Prior to hunting, you must sign a release form and agree to follow the hunting rules. Everyone in your party who will be on the property needs to read, sign, and place these forms in the orange box prior to hunting. Parents must sign for minor children.
  2. You are only allowed to shoot sage rats and badgers.
  3. Driving off roads is allowed only if ground is dry enough that you are not leaving ANY ruts. No driving is allowed on the hay meadows. You are welcome to walk in any of the designated hunting areas. No driving off roads after July 10th due to fire danger.
  4. Do not leave any garbage, litter or ammo boxes behind. Please take it when you leave.
  5. No shooting near horses or cattle.
  6. No shooting around the shop, barn, houses, or corrals.
  7. Close all gates that you open.
  8. Drive and hunt only in the designated areas. (See map that will be provided)
  9. Violation of these rules will get you tossed off the place, with a request never to return…

There are a couple more points I’d like to make. The above rules should be no-brainer, common sense, reality to people who shoot and/or hunt on other’s property. Please don’t make the rest of us look bad and close down another hunting area, like the Dinsdale Ranch, because you’re an ID TEN TANGO.
Here’s a map that shows where Seneca is:

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SS

Some good footage here with many slow-motion replays.

It’s always interesting to see how effective the .17 HMR is for small varmints like this.

Enjoy…..

Enjoy the ground squirrel hunting video below.

– flatlander

Here’s an excerpt from this article:

“Shooting

Small, isolated colonies of Wyoming ground squirrels can be effectively controlled by shooting. Shooting lowers the population by removing individuals and disrupting their life cycle. However, if there are other colonies of ground squirrels nearby, individuals from those populations will migrate into the area where squirrels are being removed. For effective control of problem ground squirrels, a population must be kept under constant shooting pressure.”

Ahh….  music to my ears!  Keep them under “constant shooting pressure”. Makes me want to get out and send a few .17 HMR Hornady V-Max bullets down range!

There’s nothing like hearing the crack of the rifle and smelling the burnt gun powder out in the field!  I guess if you’re going to be on crack, that’s the crack to be on.

Take a kid hunting – teach them gun safety – get them out in the field.  Get ‘em hooked on the crack of rifles and pistols and you won’t find them in trouble on the streets.

– flatlander

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Rifle:  Ruger 77/17

Scope: Tasco World Class Scope (6x-24x-44mm)

Ammo: Hornady .17 HMR ballistic tip

This was taken over a two day period where the problem was not solved completely, but certainly addressed… The dead land in the film use to be rows of trees, and the piles of limb and branches in the video are whats left of the trees. The green is the neighboring alfalfa which they are severely threatening…

Some of the guys in the forums have shot at Crater Lake Buffalo Company, and say the hunting is great. If you want to talk to any of them, the guys in the Tacoma Death Squad, including OblitaRat and RedMister have both been hunting there. And, according to Adrina, from Crater Lake Buffalo Company:

I had some guys shooting yesterday who went through about 3000 rounds each with a 75% kill rate.

Now that’s some fun shooting!

They only have a few spots left for the rest of the sage rat season, which ends around the middle of July, so if you want to go, you need to contact them quickly. Here’s what you need to know:

Crater Lake Buffalo Company Squeak Hunts
Ranch Phone: 541-365-2227
Cell Phone: 541-810-3956 or 3955
Address:
HC 63 Box 291 Hwy 97
Chiloquin, OR 97624
E-mail address: sales@clbcsqueakhunt.com
craterlakebuffalo@hughes.net

So, since I haven’t been out shooting this year, and feel like a fake squirrel shooter, could some of you guys send me some squirrel shooting stories and videos please? Please send them to ss@shootingsquirrels.com. Thanks,

SquirrelSniper

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.

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?)

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.)

SS