squirrel barking

[roundball]

I have yet to successfully "bark" a squirrel. I have tried a few times, mostly I scare them. This is something that will take a little practice, but it kind of goes against the code of making a clean kill. I'm afraid that until I get the hang of it, I'm going to have several wounded squirrels get away. Therefore, I don't try it too often.

No there you go...there's a market!
Need to design a "muzzleloading squirrel-barking practice target" !!

An artificial log, 3 or 4 artificial squirrels in a line on top, hit just the right spot under a squirrel, activates a spring loaded panel flipping the squirrel up in the air, etc.

(actually not that far fetched)

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[Muleskinner]

The reason for barkin' a squirl is so you don't ruin the meat with a huge projectile. You wouldn't bark a squirl with a .22, but with a .50, to bark or shoot dead on is a choice of fillin' yer fryin' pan with tasty portions of breaded meat, or rinsin' guts off your food an' pickin' bone splinters outta the slivers of etible remains only to end up tossin' it to yer beagle after your appetite has evaporated with the pungent scent of squirl innards.

 

Okay, I had a few posts here on this topic and now I have lost the bubble completely. Are we talking about barking squirrels or BSing the bark off a tree? Either way I know bark is involved - I just don't know why anymore. Got to go -- wife is barking me off the PC.

 

[merdean]

OK. I barked a squirrel a couple of years ago. I was deer hunting near Bradshaw City (A ghost town in AZ). I saw a doe trot down the path 25-30 yards in front of me. I lowered my rifle to point in the general direction I thought a buck would follow through. Sure enough, here he comes. He is about 125 yards out, walking slowly, looking and sniffing. There is a place on his path that will give me a 60yd shot. All I have to do is keep calm. Here he comes. Now he is stopped behind that tree. I see his rump but not his head. One more step and venision for dinner!

And a danged ol squirrel starts to chatter in the tree right over my head. :curse: Buck takes off. Doe takes off the other way. I just tilted Martha (My CVA Big Bore Mt. Rifle - .54cal is named after my loudmouth X-Wife) up, put front blade under Mr. Squirrel, and touched her off. The branch was about 4" think but only 20 ft. away. That TC Maxiball blew through the branch and Mr. Squirrel soon hit the ground.....cleaned, skined, quartered and cooked! Is that Barkin' a squirrel? :m2c: :crackup: