full penetration

[walks with gun]

    I have been using my everday gun, Ruger Vaqureo .45 with 255gr. cast over 8.5 grains of Unique.  It has definatly penetrated through both sides of several feral chipmunks and red squirrels.  As soon as the ground warms up I hope to try it on gopher cong.

[John R.]

That load will shoot through a lot more than that!

[Mike in Virginia]

That's a good deer load you've got there.  All they hype about huge charges of powder and light bullets is just that--hype. 

[Mikey]

walks:  beware the grey squirrel, they charge!  You are well prepared.  Chipmunks travel in pairs and gopher cong have been known to leave punji pits........... stealth is good.

[S.S.]

I thought this was a link to a porn site for a moment

[TMAKER]

I thought this was a link to a porn site for a moment

You dont think shooting chipmunks and red squirrels with a 45 is  kinky

[Glanceblamm]

While the penetration goes without saying, It is nice to know that the accuracy of the Ruger Vaquero is there for task such as this. It is even true when I take the little 3-7/8" Birds head model instead of my full size.

[Skillet]

A through-shot on a chipmunk with a 'pipsqueak' .45 LC?!!!

I refuse to believe it without pictures and a coroner's report!

Still Waiting for Proof in Texas
Skillet

[shot1]

As one old time law officer used to say. "When you shoot something with a 250/55 gr 45 slug at 900 to 1000 fps you usually don't have to walk around behind it to see what is still holding it up." A freight train don't have to be moving really fast to do a lot a damage. Watch out for those saber toothed field mice they can be pretty mean.  

[havent got a clue]

I shot a ground squirel once at a distance of 15 ft with my 45LC. everybody was hootin till one of them got a pice of guts splattered back in their mouth!!! Then it was histerical.

[blhof]

Took my contender with 223 and 3030 barrels to South Dakota a few years ago, for deer and prairie dogs.  After spending a morning on a deer stand w/o luck, we started back and came upon a large dog town and decided to see what a 3030 would do to a dog, the 1st shot was low, went through the mound and still blew up the dog, between the dirt from the mound and the bits of dog, it looked like it was hit with a grenade, the landowner wanted to know if I was using exploding bullets; I showed him the Federal 170's that I got at Wally world.  I later tried with the 223, less damaging, but effective.

[Tom W.]

Do you have a load for crickets?

[havent got a clue]

@ Tom W. I taught my 2 boys how to shoot handguns by shooting stink bugs (big black beetles) with an old 3 screw single six 22. Does that count?

[Skillet]

In a few months I'll be supplying some field reports on my "Grasshopper-Safaris".

No bull, I use a BB gun and feed them to my chickens, some days it's kill-or-be-killed in the back pasture...

Skillet

[HTRDNCK]

Stir up a hornet nest and use a cylinder full of rat shot and knock em out of the air....FUN....mini-skeet!

 

[Mikey]

Oh Lord.....

[454Puma]

HTRDNCK
  Boy that brings back memory's! I used the vaporize Hornet nests with 12 ga 3 " 1-7/8 oz  of #12 shot! 
Usually no followup shots required!  I hated running into them out picking apples or peaches! 

[bobg]

  I always used the 12 gauge with 71/2 shot for crickets. Worked better than anything else i tried.

[HTRDNCK]

HTRDNCK
  Boy that brings back memory's! I used the vaporize Hornet nests with 12 ga 3 " 1-7/8 oz  of #12 shot! 
Usually no followup shots required!  I hated running into them out picking apples or peaches! 

Yep it is a RUSH!  Sort of like bear hunting, if you miss or don't get them all there is usually a price to be paid! 

Summer fun....aint much better

[Lloyd Smale]

Ive shot through hogs and even shot one 6 point buck in the chest that the bullet came out the rear with that same load but id probably step it up for something as fierce as a squirrel!!!

[BruceP]

I thought this was a link to a porn site for a moment

I notice you clicked on the thread anyway.   

Bruce

[Ole Man Dan]

    I have been using my everday gun, Ruger Vaqureo .45 with 255gr. cast over 8.5 grains of Unique.  It has definatly penetrated through both sides of several feral chipmunks and red squirrels.  As soon as the ground warms up I hope to try it on gopher cong.

*****
A load like that should give you full penetration on Garden Spiders also. javascript:void(0);

[Old Griz]

Reminds me of the time when I was cold, wet, irritated, hadn't seen a deer all day. The light, what there was through the clouds, was fading, and there was that big red squirrel that had been cussing at me all day long, standing on his hind legs ten feet away, still cussing, feeling really brave, casting insult after insult. I slowly raised the .45-70 . . .

[scout34]

I used to bait the back porch roof with syrup and sit in my bedroom window with the BB gun.  My quarry was the elusive red wasp.  You had to hit 'em true, I've seen red wasps shrug off bad hits with a BB.

[Bigeasy]

God knows how many BB's I wasted trying to hit Dragonflies when I was a kid.  I guess I just needed a bigger caliber bullet..

Larry

[tacklebury]

My dad wouldn't let me hunt until I had successfully shot 5 consecutive wasps from the tips of weeds in our field.  They lay their eggs in the weed stalks in mid summer and he took me out there.  I was 10 or 11 and he said when you can shoot 5 and I see them fall, we'll take you hunting.  I had to make a second trip and practiced a lot in between, but managed to do it.  I took bag limits of fox squirrels that year with my crosman 1377 pellet pistol and quite a large number of red squirrels too.

[Lon371]

Reminds me of the time when I was cold, wet, irritated, hadn't seen a deer all day. The light, what there was through the clouds, was fading, and there was that big red squirrel that had been cussing at me all day long, standing on his hind legs ten feet away, still cussing, feeling really brave, casting insult after insult. I slowly raised the .45-70 . . .

I done that once with a slug gun. Only lost the head and neck meat 

Lonny

[odoh]

I know a fellow, actually a friend of >38yrs that was always acquiring new guns. He looked a lot like Alley Oops of the cartoons. We did a lot of hunting/gun trading over the yrs and even worked together. Time came, when the workload relocated to another state and he made the move. He hung around the local gunshops and hooked up w/a group of locals to go praire dog shooting.

Upon arrival everyone was uncasing their equipment and introducing 'Fwed' around and didn't really notice the heavy barrelled Ruger #1 he set up on the hood of his pickup. 'Twas a nice group of guys and offered him the first shot at a dog standin on a mound 80yrds away. It was his first shot since the move and the 500gr bullet of that 458 struck low, took out the mound. A PD foot and tail only was found. Thet group of sportsmans realized they had a very controversial friend that I too had treasured over several decades. I suspect Elmer smiled in his grave. Fwed had to have the pickup hood repainted due to the blast erosion from that outting.

[HTRDNCK]

I know a fellow, actually a friend of >38yrs that was always acquiring new guns. He looked a lot like Alley Oops of the cartoons. We did a lot of hunting/gun trading over the yrs and even worked together. Time came, when the workload relocated to another state and he made the move. He hung around the local gunshops and hooked up w/a group of locals to go praire dog shooting.

Upon arrival everyone was uncasing their equipment and introducing 'Fwed' around and didn't really notice the heavy barrelled Ruger #1 he set up on the hood of his pickup. 'Twas a nice group of guys and offered him the first shot at a dog standin on a mound 80yrds away. It was his first shot since the move and the 500gr bullet of that 458 struck low, took out the mound. A PD foot and tail only was found. Thet group of sportsmans realized they had a very controversial friend that I too had treasured over several decades. I suspect Elmer smiled in his grave. Fwed had to have the pickup hood repainted due to the blast erosion from that outting.

I like the way he was thinking! A 458 on a prairie dog hunt would be fun! definitely full penetration with that one.   

[no guns here]

Yep... me and the Red Ryder (and later a Crosman pump up) used to do a number on the wasps on the back of our house.  It was a two story and the red wasps would nest up high under the eaves.  Shoot the next and then shoot them on the side of the house as they lit to get back to the nest.  Then dad would get mad and burn them out...  ruined my fun.

Pulled a stupid stunt on a squirrel the first time I went bow hunting for deer.  Had the relative of your obnoxious and now long-departed squirrel just annoying the fire out of me all morning.  So I thought I'd be smart and make him be quiet.  Never considered how I was going to get him AND my arrow out of that tree.  Center punched him with one true shot and then... I guess there's still and arrow and scraps of fir in that tree.


NGH