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.22 short. I picked one up by accident at the shop (thought I was getting LR). Put some through my Henry and Single-six, and I really enjoyed it! Quiet, clean and great for just having fun! First time with .22 shorts. Question, are they enough to take out a squirrel, from a rifle?
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A bb is enough to take a squirrel, from a rifle, if you can put it where it needs to go.

I swear, I'm about 3 failed rat traps away from persuading my wife I need an NAA Earl and some CB shorts for the house and barn. (My terriers will apparently only chase squirrels; they're useless on all other rodents.)
 
Lol... I have a .410 derringer and lots of #6. I pointed this out to my wife, and she made almost the same face she does when she sees a rodent. I think that meant "no". :p

I tried explaining that when you shoot a thing, it's important to kill it DRT so it doesn't crawl under the house or into a duct to die and decay... phew! ...But still no.
 
When a kid growing up we and others used to kill all hogs for slaughter with .22 rifles. My dad who made sure every part of the hog was used but the squeal, and a point of using .22 shorts to make sure brain damage was minimized.

These hogs were not young shoalts, but some of them ran to several hundred pounds.

Anyone remember the Remington Rocket .22 short? It was super high velocity 15 grain sintered iron frangible bullet and would literally explode a big rat. Us kids had a ball shooting rats with them in the huge piles of cotton seed husks at the cotton seed oil plant, and that was right in the town limits.
 
hang fire if you did that today you would be a terrorist and the feds would come to your door
 
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