First Squirrel with the Benji 392

[35 shooter]

Got my first with my 392 today. The woods are still thick with leaves here making it hard to get a clear shot. I finally had to put my set 6 power leupold back on to make it happen.

The squirrels are really "out and about" now as we have a good acorn crop here this year. I had a couple of shots when i first walked into the woods, but clipped some small limb tips before the pellet could get there....clean misses.

I did some spot and stalk hunting, but they were moving from tree to tree so fast it was very hard to close the gap to get a shot.I finally got one to sit still long enough to close the gap and give me a shot at about 25 yds.
The .22 piranha pellet caught her just under and just behind the eye, and she dropped like a rock.

Yeah, i'm hooked for sure on airgun hunting now! I took a couple of pic's and will try to post later.
I had just as much fun on this hunt as when i was a kid...brought back a lot of good memories.
Lol, gave me a lot of confidence in my 392 also.

[melloairman]

Good to hear you scored a squirrel and enjoyed your hunt . I been thinning some starlings lately with my 1740 . While shooting my spinners at about 12 yards . There is a tree with a snag on the top that gets the first morning sun and you guessed it 12 yards from me . All I have to do is set in my chair and look to my left as I load each pellet and when they land I swivel around and let them have it . So I guess I would call it re new able target shooting not hunting .Marvin

[clodhopper]

I live in a state that has hunting seasons for antelope, whitetail and mule deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, moose, plus predators.
Yet I want to go squirrel hunting, The thought of creeping though the woods with a rifle, shooting a squirrel.
Then you put him in your pack and go looking for another one!
Just seems pretty cool. Hunting here seem like walking the good friend, rifle. You get a shot or two then a heck of a lot of work.
Glad to read of your hunt.

[35 shooter]

Thanks guys,

Ate supper and cleaned the squirrel. Now i'm just sitting and enjoying the memory of a nice late afternoon in the woods.

Clodhopper, if you ever get down in my territory, i could put you on a ton of squirrel hunting lol.
I love big game hunting, but the small game hunting does offer a lot of fun and usually fast action. Doing it with the air gun just adds to the challenge.

[GhostHawk]

Clodhopper I grew up in the NW part of Minnesota. And Granda on mom's side was an old southern gentlemen. I was the only guy I knew in the county who hunted squirrels.

Grandpa taught me to walk into a likely woods, find a comfortable spot with my back against a tree. And take a nap. If you were quiet enough, long enough there would be squirrels everywhere. If you were smart, you'd watch to see where their home tree was before shooting.

On a good setup you could often get 2-4 nice big fox squirrels in under an hour.

We ate a lot of squirrel and rabbit growing up. If I killed it and cleaned it mom would cook it and make it taste good. She was a big fan of cooking wild meat slow and wet till the meat falls off the bone. And she loved a good squirrel head.

Take a light shotgun, .22lr, or airgun and go find a patch of mature oaks close to a cornfield. Go take a walk, find a place to take that 20 min nap. You can do it.

[Multigunner]

Lots of squirrel here, but I don't shoot them because they are my walnut cleaning crew. I toss the walnuts still in husk down towards the back fence so my dog can chase them as they bounce along. The nuts pile up down there and after a while the furry tailed nut harvesters go to work carrying them away.

Never developed an appetite for squirrel and I like watching them at work.