Re: the head shot. I once shot (with a .22LR) a squirrel in the head. Bullet entered behind the right ear and exited the inside edge of his left eye. That squirrel ran from one side of the tree to the other and jumped to another tree. He died in mid air during that jump.
Guess sometimes they ain't dead yet no matter where you hit them.
Man I agree whole heartedly with that. They can be tough!
I guess I have bad luck, but even way back in high school when we used shotguns we would sometimes get squirrels that just would not quite. A couple of times we ended up having to drag them out of their hollows or holes and finish them off the old fashioned way. I think I killed as many with the butt of my old Winchester 20 gauge as I did with the shot.
I'll give it another go this weekend, but I don't believe the air rifle is going to replace my Anschutz for squirrels.
