squirrel hunting safety

[kingsax26]

I agree with you squirrel...

When I was deployed to Iraq as a combat medic...we fairly often saw indiginous people with bullet wounds from falling bullets. The gun is a very symbolic item in Iraq and yes they fire them into the sky...for many reasons. However what goes up, eventually comes down. I would hate to be on the recieving end of any caliber round ball as it fell from the sky.... while it my not have a high likely hood of happening . I for one wouldnt want to risk it...that balls gonna land somewhere

 

[MosinRob]

I have a few .32's that I use. In NJ largest you can use is a .36. I use 15gr of fff. I first went out and used 30gr and found it ruined a lot of squirrels.

 

[ny griz]

:hmm: Know your target and beyond. :surrender: Griz

 

[satx78247]

In my experience, a hit in the ribs with ANY rifle is DEADLY & spoils LITTLE edible meat.

YEP, I cook/eat squirrel heads in stew, as most of us "hillbillies" do.
(Before "knocking it", try it.)

yours, satx

 

[MosinRob]

explain what that has to do with my comment?

 

[coloradoclyde]

I have a few .32's that I use. In NJ largest you can use is a .36. I use 15gr of fff. I first went out and used 30gr and found it ruined a lot of squirrels.

I generally use a .45 loaded with 55 grains of 3fff the same load I use for deer and I don't ever remember ruining any squirrels....but we do have some mighty big squirrels.

 

[Capt. Jas.]

explain what'll that has to do with my comment?

He is just posting in sequence.

 

[satx78247]

EXACTLY. - That's WHY our family doesn't allow anyone to hunt squirrels on our farm with anything but a shotgun. = TOO MANY neighbors within a half mile.

just my OPINION, satx

 

[crockett]

I am going to once again reveal my ignorance but anyway....I like everyone else has been told to never shoot into the sky, the falling bullet could kill someone. Okay, although I do hunt squirrels with a small caliber rifle way out in a national forest.
Here's what has always puzzled me. I am told there is such a thing as maximum velocity from gravitation, jump out an airplane and spread eagle and the wind will slow you down to a maximum speed of 200 miles per hour (or something like that) so...I get thinking about a lead bullet, once it slows down and starts falling, is the forward speed what kills some one or the speed the bullet is dropping from gravitation?

 

[satx78247]

Either gravity or "forward speed" CAN injure or kill an unsuspecting person. = During the 1984 Olympic Games, an "attendee" of the games from Germany was SEVERELY wounded when a .30-06 bullet struck him in the left side of top of his skull.

According to the investigator of the LASD, the injured man was hit by a bullet that was "fired up into the air from about a mile away", according to "the plotted trajectory" of the bullet.

yours, satx