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Hey ngashooter, congratulations on an amazingly long shot. I've shot a rabbit with my Savage Mk II at 85 paces, one shot through the heart. But a scoped handgun?! Man, I'm impressed.
But also, what a squirrel! Two things about it are quite different than the fox squirrels we have: he's bigger than any we have shot (or is that a little truck? ), but also his cool dark head and grey ears. Man, I like the look of him.
Here in Colorado Springs on the west side of town we will see melanistic fox squirrels. We also have black Abert's along the foothills/front range. So I've never been quite sure what I was seeing. It's good to know they can have a melanistic tendency. The Aberts around here are mostly black, but you do see a few gray ones.
Yeah, I hunt with my Ruger Single Six, iron sights. I've bagged cottontails, our little Rocky Mountain pine squirrels (we call them "pineys" but they should be "spruce squirrels" as they strongly favor spruce and fir trees and cones), and two dusky grouse. But all of my shots have been 10 yards or less. Man!!!
Thanks for sharing that and the photos.
Hey ngashooter, congratulations on an amazingly long shot. I've shot a rabbit with my Savage Mk II at 85 paces, one shot through the heart. But a scoped handgun?! Man, I'm impressed.
But also, what a squirrel! Two things about it are quite different than the fox squirrels we have: he's bigger than any we have shot (or is that a little truck? ), but also his cool dark head and grey ears. Man, I like the look of him.
Here in Colorado Springs on the west side of town we will see melanistic fox squirrels. We also have black Abert's along the foothills/front range. So I've never been quite sure what I was seeing. It's good to know they can have a melanistic tendency. The Aberts around here are mostly black, but you do see a few gray ones.
Yeah, I hunt with my Ruger Single Six, iron sights. I've bagged cottontails, our little Rocky Mountain pine squirrels (we call them "pineys" but they should be "spruce squirrels" as they strongly favor spruce and fir trees and cones), and two dusky grouse. But all of my shots have been 10 yards or less. Man!!!
Thanks for sharing that and the photos.