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recurve shooter:
hi guys. i hunt squirrel and rabbit with almost every type of weapon i own, from old single shot .22 to .22 pistol to suped up 17 hmr, single barrel 16 guage, bow, ect. i love small game hunting, its just more fun for me down here than deer, as its rare to see a deer, much less get the shot. anyway, sittin by a tree the other day with my .58 cal hawken (a little to large for squirrel lol) watchin them play around i was thinkin it would be an absolute blast to try to chase the little critters with like a 40, 36, 32, or something like that rifle. anyone do it? any recomendations for a particular rifle or caliber? pics would be awsome if you have em!  ;D

half eye:
Recurve
      Used to do that all the time, even built a couple of nice 40's for the job. The .40  (.390 + pillow tickning) was a bit too big for squirrels so I had to "bark" them. For bunnies it was OK but I shot a smaller load of powder (a pure lead ball with a full charge would tear a bunnie up pretty good too). Ya might want to try a .32 and shoot point of aim. The ramrods on a .32 could be a problem though, as is a patch retriever, and it's pretty easy to flaten a round ball that small with the "short starter".
     Take my words with a grain of salt though...I was shooting back in the 60's and 70's using Hodgedons FFF or FFFF not the new pellets. My gun had a 40" green-river swamped barrel, curly maple stock in the tennesee mountain style, iron funtiture and a Siler lock, with single set trigger. Never did catch on to shooting left handed though so no right eye sight meant no more iron sight rifle shooting. Also dont have any digital pics from that era so dont have any pics to send to ya.
rich

mullet:
 Chris Cade has a small caliber rifle and I hunt squirrels with my double 12 gauge.

Grunt:
I use a .25 southern mountain Bean family style flint lock. It's the one on the top. The .25 roundball gets powered by 17 grains of 3F.

longhunter1:
I use have two flintlock rifles i use for small game, one is a .36 cal. southern mtn.with a 42 inch barrel and the other is a .28 gauge smoothrifle, an early Virginia pattern with a 46 inch barrel.The smoothrifle I can shoot shot or round ball out of it, I also use it for deer. It takes a .535 patched round ball or .54 cal.  A smoothrifle is very versatile rifle. The .36 works good for tree varmints.
Both guns i have built years ago and i have a blast hunting with either gun.

Longhunter

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