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Make that #4 Buck,gives a bit better range for fresh air! Tends to kill the grass in a wide swath though.

Here's mine. Marlin 980V "Squirrel Rifle". Here in usage against Mr. Porcupine. Was out hunting coons with my buddy's dad, and his dogs kept treeing porcupines, and I was sick of pulling out all the quills. With a Bausch and Lomb Elite 4000 1.5-6 scope it's pretty much perfect, for me at least.

I've got a couple that I have used over the years.




Marlin 2000

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Fast Ed

Ed, great avatar! The 541S and 94 are sweet!

The 2 favorite squirrel getters.




PITA to carry but once your in the rimrocks its perfect.

Ingwe, we have a few things in common. My father has a 72a, he had it reblued and redid the stock long ago, it still looks new, I will have it one day and it's a honey.

My squirrel rifle has a fat bbl on it like Tom264, a former Butler Creek 20" bull in SS, now it's been chopped and recut for the different extractor grooves for a 77/22. Zero tolerance chamber, it literally empties a clip of Powerpoints into a ragged hole at 50 yds, have shot 5shot groups from 1/4-1/2", the older lots, I think they were mfg. in Australia, or at least R&D'd there. Those 40gr Full speed HPs spin perfect out the 14" twisted bbl, faster than std. 16t rifles.

The Powerpoints kill better than anything I have used, the gun is short, hefty to steady and damned accurate. I would duplicate it again, save a fluted bbl in same 17" length.

Trigger honed and spring replaced thanks to a ballpoint pen spring.

Clarks not far from me builds a '10/22 Squirrel Special' and in the deep south here, a 16" fluted bull 10/22 is not a bad set up. If not for the custom price, I'd own one. I hear they shoot unreal.

Nice guns guys, like the Porcupine pic, we don't have those here.

I prefer my 77/22 but used an old Nylon 66 for years. The CZ is a 17HMR and is a little too messy for my taste on small game. It shoots lights out though.