Squirrel Loads?

[azmntman]

I just face the fact I'm a 25 yard shooter and forget all about modern guns, chokes and ammo.

No squirrels here, but we're sometimes overrun with snowshoe hare. My standard load in 12 gauge or 20 gauge is 7/8 oz of shot. If a pattern is too thin for my tastes, I go to one size smaller shot to thicken it up, rather than getting all whinged out about magic wad combos.[/quote]

:thumbsup:

 

[robinsroost]

No squirrels here [/quote]

I googled Arizona DNR and they show several tree and some ground squirrels in your state. So, if you have trees, especially pine trees, you have squirrels. Keep yer powder dry.......robin :hmm:

 

[tenngun]

I grew up in New Mexico and tried some ground squrril, it was a might tough, much much tougher then the old fox squrril said around the warren woods now.
I understand the best way to cook ground squrril is to stuff full of gravel and boil till the rocks get soft.

 

[Snow on the Roof]

Drop your charge to 2-1/2 Drams ( apx. 68 grains ) of FF. To tighten a pattern drop the charge. My favorite squirrel load for a 20 gauge is 2-1/2 drams FF two over power wads, no felt wad, followed by 1 oz. of #6 shot and a thin over shot wad. A good alternative is to use 4 over shot wads, instead of the thicker over powder wads, and 1-1/8 oz. of # 5's topped off with 1 over shot wad.

 

[AZbpBurner]

Yep - 2/3 of AZ is forested & there are beau coups squirrel if you know where to look. For 20 Ga. my fusil is unexcelled at barking squirrels with a .60 cal RB

 

[Zonie]

We've got a lot of different squirrels here and a lot of them but none of them that I've ever found are anywhere near as large as those big squirrels they have back east.

 

[AZbpBurner]

I grew up in an English Walnut orchard in So Cal, so naturally the place had loads of squirrels & I've got a pretty good idea of what "squirrel-sized" means. Moved back to Ohio while still in High School & most of the in-town squirrels were about the same size. But when getting out into the woods & into more rural areas, some looked to be the size of housecats.

 

[coloradoclyde]

some looked to be the size of housecats.

I can second that.....You are not exaggerating....