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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : tat2dman January 05, 2008, 06:42:15 AM
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Cold and blustery today,looked outside at my favorite walnut tree,about 30 yds out,and spy a squirrell,well out comes thumper crosshairs on boom,a dead miss,he musta thought it was funny to as he sat up on his haunches and stared me down.Then started barking at me in "his" tree,to late predator gone,looks about an inch low have to check ma zero,anyway I`m pretty sure if he wasn`t already dead the 40 foot drop did him in.All in all a good day...
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You certainly put his light out :)
Good shootin
Jeff
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Great shootin Barry, is that a cigg filter in the pic?. You gave him his last puff hehe. Great pic also.:) Ed
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Thx Jeff,and heheheheh, Ed he really got the last hit!Couldn`t believe he just sat there after I missed him once.Guess it was the last bad thought he had.
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I would not place any bets on that 40 foot fall killing a squirrel.
Shot one out of the top of an full grown Oak tree, 50+ ft up. On its way down the rat bounces off one branch, hits another branch which was dead and breaks under the pressure. Now squirrel and branch are falling another 20 feet to the ground without any more interuptions.
Once the squirrel found the ground, gets up and runs back up the tree it just fell out of.
Just keep in mind it still has a pellet round in his body, somewhere.
Squirrels are tougher than you think.
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I've seen a few tree rats take a long dive to the ground,hit with a thump and then get up, shake it off and head right back up the tree. They certainly are tough little buggers.
Jeff
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I've seen one's with a BIG "S" on their chest hehehe. Ed