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20 gauge squirrel load ?
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Is it choked?
I use 70 grains of 3Fg, and an equal volume of #6 shot. I weighed it and it came out at right about 3/4 - 7/8 of an ounce (give or take a pellet or three), and it's a 2½ dram powder load, so it's equivalent to an "upland" game load in a 20 gauge.
IF you aren't shooting a choked gun, then mixing the shot with the same volume of Jiffy brand, corn muffin mix, and loading this into a paper cartridge that will just barely fit inside the bore, and gently ramming the whole package to seat it on the powder, seems to work quite well.
LD
I use 70 grains of 3Fg, and an equal volume of #6 shot. I weighed it and it came out at right about 3/4 - 7/8 of an ounce (give or take a pellet or three), and it's a 2½ dram powder load, so it's equivalent to an "upland" game load in a 20 gauge.
IF you aren't shooting a choked gun, then mixing the shot with the same volume of Jiffy brand, corn muffin mix, and loading this into a paper cartridge that will just barely fit inside the bore, and gently ramming the whole package to seat it on the powder, seems to work quite well.
LD
I favor lighter loads and more shot.
e.g. 50 gr. 3Fg and one ounce shot.
e.g. 50 gr. 3Fg and one ounce shot.
jeffdrown said:
You've gotten good advice. I use the old, unscientific soup can test to know the range limit of whatever load I am using. If the 5's or 6's will penetrate a soup can, vegetable can etc at a given range it will kill squirrels.
I shoot a 20 ga. smoothbore with a single 46" cylinder barrel . I've used #6 shot with good success, but for our big fox squirrels I prefer #5 for it's greater weight. An ounce of #6 has 225 pellets, one of #5 has 170, so I increase my load of #5 to 1 1/8 oz., which gives me about 200 pellets. My patterns are pretty good with that. I shoot 70 gr. of FFg Goex for squirrels.
For the sake of simplicity I use only one measure for most of my shooting with my smoothbore. For my squirreel load I've put a mark inside for 70 gr. FFg, powder, and a full measure gives me 1 1/8 oz. #5.
Spence
For the sake of simplicity I use only one measure for most of my shooting with my smoothbore. For my squirreel load I've put a mark inside for 70 gr. FFg, powder, and a full measure gives me 1 1/8 oz. #5.
Spence
Not strictly 20g but my .58 smooth'ns get 1oz of shot on top of a few OS cards or newpaper. The powder measure is set around 7/8oz.
I don't use it on squirrel much past 20yds!
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I don't use it on squirrel much past 20yds!
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Gordon Jabben
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I happened to have a powder flask that had a 55 grain spout. I tried it on squirrels and I'm surprised how well I have done with 55 grains of 3f and an ounce of 7 1/2 shot.
