First squirrel with a muzzleloader

[chsparkman]

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Got this guy this morning in WV. Great fun! Traditions Crockett .32 with a patched round ball. Unfortunately I hit it poorly, through the body, so there was a lot of meat damage.

[trails4u]

A front stuffer squirrel is meat on the table! :) Great job!!

[Fly]

Where did you get your sling? I like it.

Fly

[OnHoPr]

NICE and bravo, are the biscuits in the oven yet.

[big bore 99]

Those soft lead round balls sure can do the damage. Bet he didn't know what hit him.

[chsparkman]

Where did you get your sling? I like it.

Fly

from Cabelas.

[chsparkman]

Those soft lead round balls sure can do the damage. Bet he didn't know what hit him.

You're right. He just fell out of the tree and never moved again.

[Whiterabbit]

from Cabelas.

No way. I'm going to have to check for that next time I am there.

[bedbugbilly]

Congrats! Now you need to skin that tree rat out and tan the hide - make yourself a hat! LOL I'll bet you were thrilled! Nothing like a 32 or a 36 on a tree rat. I got a few when I was a kid . . . but I scared the heck out of many more than what I got! Enjoy!

[chsparkman]

Congrats! Now you need to skin that tree rat out and tan the hide - make yourself a hat! LOL I'll bet you were thrilled! Nothing like a 32 or a 36 on a tree rat. I got a few when I was a kid . . . but I scared the heck out of many more than what I got! Enjoy!

I wasn't going to talk about the three I missed the day before. :oops: That evening, my brother-in-law, expert in all things ballistic, helped me to figure out the sight picture. I still have more work to do in that area but it was instrumental in the next day's success.

[Hanshi]

Congratulations. Squirrels are big game IMHO. I love the Crockett and owned/hunted with one for nearly 14 years. It's the real deal for squirrels. What load were you using?

[rfd]

congrats! excellent rifle and anywhere ya hit a tree rat is a good shot.

[chsparkman]

Congratulations. Squirrels are big game IMHO. I love the Crockett and owned/hunted with one for nearly 14 years. It's the real deal for squirrels. What load were you using?

20 grains of FFFG and a patched round ball. I'm going to try and work up a lighter load. I'll start with 10 grains and increase if accuracy demands it.

[John Allen]

Nice job, I have not taken my Crockett yet out for squirrels but soon I will.

[Motor]

I use my 50cal with a Lee 250gr REAL. It just bores a nice clean .5" hole through them. You do really have to pick your shots carefully though. Having a dead stop behind the squirrel is a must for safety reasons.

BTW: Nice shootin neighbor. ;)

Motor

[Whiterabbit]

I use my 50cal with a Lee 250gr REAL. It just bores a nice clean .5" hole through them. You do really have to pick your shots carefully though. Having a dead stop behind the squirrel is a must for safety reasons.

BTW: Nice shootin neighbor. ;)

Motor

That REAL would be real tough to get down the barrel of a .32






















:)

[Hang Fire]

Congrats! Now you need to skin that tree rat out and tan the hide - make yourself a hat! LOL I'll bet you were thrilled! Nothing like a 32 or a 36 on a tree rat. I got a few when I was a kid . . . but I scared the heck out of many more than what I got! Enjoy!

In the early frontier days a bounty was place on squirrel scalps and kids became expert eliminators of the pest. Reason for the bounty. Consider a clearing with a corn field placed in the middle of a dense forest populated by thousands of hungry squirrels, eliminate the squirrels or enjoy a crop of corn stalks.