EricM
Well-known member
I posted a few days ago about the new Gamo air rifle I got. Love it! I put close to 100 pellets through it to break it in/sight it in, and finished today at noon. At 5 PM, I was over at mom's house where she has squirrel problems (chewing on skylight, getting in attic, eating patio furniture, etc) and thought I'd try out the new tool.
Aha! There's one of those - as mom now calls them ever since one jumped off of the low roof onto her head as she was sitting and reading a paper on the deck - "little sh!%s"! For neighborhood squirrels, they are pretty skittish and love to run up one tree and jump several times into other trees before stopping. This one gave me about ten seconds of head profile over a limb at 30 yards, a really difficult offhand shot for me. Wow!! Damned if I didn't head shoot it!! The only way I figure it (from years of practice on various large and small game animals) is that I must have touched her off at exactly the right point in the circle, clipped a large branch, ricocheted off of someone's rain gutter or chimney, hit the squirrel on the head and knocked him out, and the fall broke his neck. Typical of most of my shots. Actually, you ought to see some of my golf shots! Any way, first kill with this rifle. I really, really like the new Gamo air rifle now.........and the squirrel only cost me $150. Maybe I'll shoot a second one and knock the price down to only $75 each ............I think that's cheaper than my fish..................
Aha! There's one of those - as mom now calls them ever since one jumped off of the low roof onto her head as she was sitting and reading a paper on the deck - "little sh!%s"! For neighborhood squirrels, they are pretty skittish and love to run up one tree and jump several times into other trees before stopping. This one gave me about ten seconds of head profile over a limb at 30 yards, a really difficult offhand shot for me. Wow!! Damned if I didn't head shoot it!! The only way I figure it (from years of practice on various large and small game animals) is that I must have touched her off at exactly the right point in the circle, clipped a large branch, ricocheted off of someone's rain gutter or chimney, hit the squirrel on the head and knocked him out, and the fall broke his neck. Typical of most of my shots. Actually, you ought to see some of my golf shots! Any way, first kill with this rifle. I really, really like the new Gamo air rifle now.........and the squirrel only cost me $150. Maybe I'll shoot a second one and knock the price down to only $75 each ............I think that's cheaper than my fish..................
