Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game Cold day in the squirrel woods

wind was really blowing this morning so hunting was rough; gusts over 20MPH plus 16 degree temps put the wind chill at -2, squirrels we saw were mostly on the ground, not the trees, and we didnt see nearly as many as we usually do.

the creekbottoms we hunt tend to flood often and had standing water which froze so we didn't sneak up on much with the ground crunchy & noisy.... my son and i hunted together and when we startled squirrels we'd each get on opposite sides of the tree they run up so no matter where the squirrel went one of us would get a shot.

had saw hogs the other day so i decided to hunt with the .22 mag instead of a .22 or a .17 ; my .22mag T-Bolt shoots the Speer Gold Dot short barrel personal protection loads really well and it is the best load i've tried as far as accuracy in that rifle but when you make body shots, those thing are dramatic on squirrels.

bagged a few squirrels, saw quite a few deer, and brother in law took a shot at a running coyote.