My brother was shooting squirrels with a .177 cal pellet rifle. I don't have a heavy rifle, but had a massive failure with my 338 win mag small bore. Such a failure that all I saw was a red mist when the trigger broke. Probably too fast at an old X bullet 175 gr at 3200 ft/sec. I fear it was bent or tumbled when it hit the squirrel. I did not recover either the sqirrel or the bullet. Makes me want to quit using those old poor quality bullets. Squirrel at 150 yds on the top of my neighbours feed shed. He let me have first shot as he was sure those inaccurate Barnes would probably miss or only wound.
Randy
