Posted on 01/24/2020 8:25:24 AM PST by w1n1
I want to know why the author shot the squirrel.
Did he eat it?
I wanna know why he got directly under the tree. Seems like you’d see more from a short distance. You’d have a better shot at a squirrel “pinned to a limb,” anyway.
I have never known a squirrel hunter who did not eat them. Mother used to chicken fry them.
They were OK but I liked chicken better.
Best .22lr rifle is still the Marlin 60.
Best in my opinion is still the Remington Nylon 66.
Probably hard to get paid to write about them, these days. Savage seems to be trying to out 10-22. Ruger. A tough row to hoe.
I want to know why the author shot the squirrel.
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Just a guess as the author didn’t specify. But in my younger
days we went squirrel hunting in the fall for the meat to eat.
We hunted with or without dogs
I think fried squirrel tastes better than fried chicken.
The Ruger 10/22 has outsold them both, combined.
And as far as aftermarket accessories, no other .22 rifle comes close to the 10/22.
Who needs aftermarket accessories when you have a Remington Nylon 66 with a scope?
I love my Marlin 39A lever takedown-that’s the most accurate thing I own. Second best is my Savage BRJ .22 mag- a beautiful and accurate rifle.
“Did he eat it?”
He better damn well have been starving and had to survive.
we own some kemmer stock mountain curs and some ladner yellow blackmouth curs ( ladners are BIG dogs ) we have had the very best fur season this year hate to brag but me dogs are assume. Screw a 22 to hard to aim at night or during the day shooting treed squirrels or raccoon. shotgun all the way a 11-87 is what I lung around to hunt the draws and hills of the Ozarks. I am a professional varmint hunter and work some large farms in the area. We also decoy coyotes with these dogs. For coyotes I change out my barrel and shoot sabots. EVERYONE should own a mountain cur and a 11-87 20 gauge
we shoot so many squirrels out over dogs its unreal. Feed them to the dogs. We eat them ourselves, we also eat raccoon and possum. We kill so many it hard to keep up. We have to freeze them. The farmers that pay me to clean varmints off their land sometimes take some to eat or feed to their dogs. We kill lots of stuff we do not eat. soooo
Who would need replacement parts for a rifle that was discontinued in 1989?
Yes. The Nylon 66 is a fabulous rifle.
I have one in Black that has less than 50 rounds through it and a brown one with thousands run through it and looking at another one in an auction next Saturday that’s still in the factory box.
I gave one to my grandpa several years before he died and my mom is trying to find it for me again. He never shot it.
Another a Iver Johnson Carbine...
Yea mean us hunters...are cruel.
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