Hello all.
Been enjoying the stories and pictures you've all been posting. Finally have one of my own.
Bruce's wife Jerry saw me target shooting and called me over to Bruceland with a request. Seems a squirrel had been getting into their bird feeders and doing some damage. She marked him for death and requested that I carry out this duty. I agreed and told her I'd be looking out for this renegade in the days to come.
Three days ago I saw him in the early morning buzzing across my land into Bruceland and boldly sit on a post. He made noise and twitched his tail long enough to give me a shot but I didn't have my B30 really sighted for 62 yards. I hit the post about 1 inch below his seat and he took off.
This morning I'm in the kitchen preparing to make breakfast when I see this very fella sitting not 20 feet away in MY tree! I immediately went for my 1322, pumped it up and hit the red dot. By the time I got outside he was already heading out towards Bruceland and out of reach of my current pumped estimate. Then, he made his last mistake. He went up the tree 5 yards behind my 30 yard targets. I don't know why but he went up pretty high and he gave me the time I needed to get my B30. I grabbed the B30 and a Crosman dome (14.4 gr) and went back outside. I set up the gun on my shooting bench, loaded it and waited. Sure enough he came down the tree within 3 minutes and boldly sat on the last branch before ground level. He turned and gave me a perfect profile shot. I grinned as I squeezed the trigger and aimed right behind his front leg noting the wind was north to south at about 15 mph. There was a bang..SMACK!. Then I was witness to something I've never seen before and probably never will again. The squirrel did three complete sideways rotations off the tree limb before he hit the ground. Yes, three. He landed on his side, got up and ran none too fast towards Garthton. He only ran about 15 yards and he suddenly stopped, sat down, raised his tail in the air and fell over dead.
So the tally of the tape looks like this:
1 shot, 1 kill 35 yards and 5' high.
Here's a couple pics.
First one is my dog Chief checking the squirrel for what he calls, "Deadness."
Second one is the "Tail of the Tape." and a clear view of the shot.
In the second one you can see where the .22 cal dome hit him. Broke his shoulder all to heck and did not come out the other side. Musta been a hellofa whollup!
The "greens" by his head were my 3 year olds idea. "Sigh".
