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Nikon has their Spot On program and app. It has a lot of factory ammo options for rimfire, centerfield, shotgun and muzzleloader data as well as letting you enter your own data I believe.

Dead on at 50........think this one was around 40 yards.
Place has a lot of reds.
Problem is the deer flies and skeeters..........beyond brutal

I find 30 to 35 yards to be a good compromise distance for me.

I like 32 yards, backyard range. Hits low at 50 yards with subs but that is A long shot on squirrels for me.

I got an old Redfield Widefield 4x I could sell you that you could mount super low because the bells are flat on the top and bottom. Now if you take the iron sights off you can get it even lower. Mounted in the lowest possible rings, this'll keep your point of impact closer to your point of aim from really really close out to 30 or 35 yards.

And although they'd likely tear a squirrel up a bit at those short ranges, if you were shootin Yellowjackets or Stingers their added velocity would let your point of impact stay even closer to your point of aim through the same distances.
I'd probably prefer some hot solids like Vipers for damage control.

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Wow! We have some flies and skeeters, but I must admit I've never attempted shooting them. You're way beyond my league.

I think the problem is they try to pack the squirrels away!!

I love to hunt gray squirrels with a scoped .22 rifle. I prefer my rifles be sighted in dead on at 50 yards.

They're thick enough you can flock shoot 'em

When I was younger I hunted squirrels early season, and the woods I hunted weren't bad.
Yeah, my tolerance for bugs, and insect repellent.......is long gone.

But this recent little red squirrel haven is simply wicked bad with stuff that makes you bleed.
I learned to stay the hell out of it til leaves drop.

The trajectory is the trajectory -- you don't change it, you simply pick the point along it you wish to have your scope point.

I usually sight in at the distance that will see the most shots, then I learn where I need to hold for everything else. I have to hold over for long shots, and I have to do the same thing for close ones!

75 yards for Scoped .22lr guns. For the hunt, I generally am using CCI Velocitors.

Shoot at 10 yard increments up to 100 yards (beyond if you like). Know your rifle and ammo combo.

Trajectory is the one thing that consistently changes. Just moving the zero'd POI from 15 yards to 50 yards changes the trajectory of the bullet In relation to the line of site.
That's the reason I like to set my scoped rimfire so that the POI just hits my line of site, and never signifigantly rises above it... What ever that distance may be, will depend a lot on your scope and rings combination as well as what ammo you choose.

If my line of site is above the bore an 1 1/2" with poi zero'd at "X" yards, then I pretty much know where the poi will be at half that (3/4" low)or a quarter (1 1/8" low) of that distance. ( the Gravity bell curve will play a bigger part in drop farther down range from Zero, but that's just part of it.)
Squirrel heads have more to do with shot placement than distance shooting Imo.

Thermacell is your friend.

Not a gimmick either. Thank me later.

The Thermacell in conjunction with a good dose of Permethrin will keep the skeeters and pecker gnats at bay. Just sit the Thermacell where wind let's the vapors drift in your direction.

I've had a Thermacell for several years.
Won't turkey hunt without one
Squirrels...................eh, wait til leaves are down.

I have an 8" 22/45 Ruger..........

Might be good for squirrels.............need to figure out what RDS I want for it.

8 3/8" K22 17 and 48. makes for a good squil shooters.
Bought them a long long time ago. Sequential serial numbers. Walnut Case. New.

Pride and joy. They make you a good shooter.

I use open/iron sights and sight in at 25 yards but only because my eyes aren't the most accurate past that.

As some have suggested on this thread.....sight in for the most frequent occurring distances that most of your hunting shots are taken.

I live out more in the desert and hunt mainly jackrabbits with my .22s with most shots in the 50-100 range category so I use 75 yards for most of my sight in distance. All .22 rifle are scoped and the biathlon seems to punch the smallest groups but tough to work that bolt on running jackrabbits.

I've also tested the place on my bottom vertical cross-hair where the taper occurs to know that longer distance. Without wind the .22lr can be effective at longer than thought distances.

Agreed on knowing where your hitting using the top of the bottom coarse vertical cross hair taper as an aiming point. I've found with a 50 yard zero if I use it as an aiming point I'm pretty much on at a 100 with HV CCIs as opposed to 4" low using the cross-hair.

With CCI mini-mags I zero at 25 yards as the bullet is rising and find that it is also zeroed at about 60 yards as it drops.