About your hunting rifles

[Banjoman]

This is my squirrel gun, a .60 caliber Fusil de Chasse, using ~65 grains of #6 shot. Killed a lot of squirrels with it.

This a Chambers .62 caliber smooth rifle. Only got to take it deer hunting once last year. Hopefully I’ll do better this year.

If I plink with them, I’ll hunt with them. If I hunt with them, I’ll plink with them. None of my guns are ‘beaters’. I use them, but I don’t abuse them.

 

[andy52]

I have several rifles but generally hunt with only one, it's a custom made SMR that I've had for 30 years nothing fancy plain walnut stock and iron furniture. It's the most accurate rifle I have and is in .45.

 

[tenngun]

I too don’t have a ‘beater’ none of my guns are fancy though two have highly figured wood. I’m careful with my girls in field or in a camp.
This century all my deer save one has been shot with a smooth bore. Two with my 28 bore, 54 cal, and rest with my fusil de chase.
All shots pretty close and all with round ball

 

[Eric Krewson]

The first thing I do with any new deer caliber gun I build or acquire is to hunt with it until I kill a deer with it. One of my guns may be the favorite that I hunt with the most, but favorites change, it looks like my latest Issac Haines build will be my favorite for a long time.

Here are just a few of the first deer these rifles killed.

TC kit gun that I put together, my brother found the kit in my dad's closet when he went to assisted living. The neck shot was a finisher, I broke both its shoulders on the first shot but he could get up on its hind legs and run about 50 yards every time I got close. I finally got close enough for the neck shot, I didn't want to mess up any more meat.

My first flint longrifle that wasn't a TC, a gift from a friend.

My first build, a Beck like rifle, I took it hunting before I finished it and hadn't browned the barrel.

There were lots of deer in between the Beck and the Haines picture, another first for another TC and two first for each of my smoothbores.

Here is my Haines with its first doe last year.

 

[PEARL DRUMS]

Mine is dull and grey per my recipe. It’s very well cared for. Never been an eye catcher rifle guy. Although I appreciate them very much.

 

[Bill Bryan]

I'm no hunter, but I do shoot monthly at my local muzzleloading club. Bill

 

[Tom A Hawk]

All of my guns are used for hunting. .36 - .54. I make my own for the satisfaction value and enjoy taking them out to the woods.

 

[labrat]

Tom a Hawk..........that's a huge looking rifle you made there. You do very nice work.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Tom a Hawk..........that's a huge looking rifle you made there. You do very nice work.

Thanks. Here's a better view of the Isaac Haines.

 

[IronHand]

For hunting I favor the Hawkin type rifle. I mostly hunt in heavy cover so the short barrel helps. My current gun is a 50 cal flintlock TC Hawkin. It's a first year of production gun and the previous owner did some nice carving on it.

Ironhand

 

[snakebit]

Only have 2 Flinters, both production no frills rifles, a 50 GPR Flinter and a Pedersoli 36 Flinter (for now). I have a few T/C's, 2 CVA's and a Traditions Crockett all Cap Lock. I will hunt, or have hunted with them all. The Crockett is just a pure pleasure to carry in the woods.

And to answer the last part of your question, in the woods, best place to hunt squirrels is in the woods.