Managed to get out for squirrels after the opener, first harvest with this gun. I’m shooting a Kibler colonial smooth rifle in .58, took this squirrel with ~7/8-1oz of #6 shot. I spent a fair bit of time patterning this gun and had good luck with the Skychief load everyone knows about, and I think I landed on a winner with some minor tweaks. Rather than just loose shot under the oil soaked buffer wad, I rolled the shot into a paper cartridge with an equal volume of corn meal buffer. I read about others doing something similar on another forum, definitely not something I came up with. I have to pattern it on paper still but at 20 yds, this guy had numerous hits, might even up the shot size to #5 next time - fewer pellets to spit out!
