Author Topic: Let's see your squirrel rifle!!! (Read 381139 times)

Don Adams · « **Reply #500 on:** March 26, 2017, 06:03:49 PM »

Here's my .32 squirrel rifle
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Skychief · « **Reply #501 on:** March 26, 2017, 07:31:09 PM »

Great looking rifle Don!

hanshi · « **Reply #502 on:** March 26, 2017, 09:53:30 PM »

Beautiful rifle, Don.

Daryl · « **Reply #503 on:** March 27, 2017, 02:06:28 AM »

Nice looking rifle. Not sure about what appears to be a buckhorn sight, though. Is it used as a peep sight?

Mike Brooks · « **Reply #504 on:** March 27, 2017, 02:33:45 AM »

I like that gun. Used to see everybody with a gun like that in the early 80's at Friendship. They have come back in popularity again and for good reason, they're good looking guns.

Marcruger · « **Reply #505 on:** April 01, 2017, 08:21:10 PM »

"....too bad no grey or black squirrels around here."

Daryl, be careful what you wish for! We have tooooo many "chicken of the trees" here. They did close to $1,000 in damage to our car wiring last year. Nasty little beasties. Yes, I like hunting them, but got started shooting them as a kid to clear the destructive varmints out of our property.

Come on down from BC and we'll work together on eradicating them. :-)

Best wishes, Marc

Daryl · « **Reply #506 on:** April 02, 2017, 08:52:55 PM »

I used to shoot black and grey squirrels in Southern Ontario from age about 7 or 8 or so, onward - back yard as well as out on some farms. Ate lots of squirrels in those days. I suspect the local variety here might taste like a nice green spruce cone, or pile of needles. They are protected for the trappers, thus cannot shoot them - which is just as fine, they are inedible, I've heard.
Marc - I'd love to do that, some day.

Sequatchie Rifle · « **Reply #507 on:** May 30, 2017, 04:04:41 PM »

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I just hit 'em in the head and knock 'em out of the tree with the end of the barrel!

Cades Cove Fiddler · « **Reply #508 on:** May 30, 2017, 04:15:00 PM »

....HaHa... Good one, SR.... I still gotta see that rifle.... missed you at Joe Wheeler and Knoxville...maybe one day... !!!

Brian cox · « **Reply #509 on:** May 31, 2017, 02:17:43 AM »

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Jim Chambers Early York kit rifle built by Jack Garner. 40 cal, Getz swamped barrel.

JCKelly · « **Reply #510 on:** May 31, 2017, 02:37:22 AM »

Grandfather said he could shoot the head off a pheasant with (his grandfather's) this one. I've not shot it though -does it count?

Dave Marsh · « **Reply #511 on:** May 31, 2017, 03:06:01 AM »

.32 cal by Steve Losey. Great gun and has become my favorite.

Dave

Don Adams · « **Reply #512 on:** May 31, 2017, 04:49:56 AM »

My apologies Daryl. The buckhorn sight I've not used as a peep sight yet. Being a .32 caliber I don't shoot it much over 50 yards - but I would think it would act as a peep sight past that if I practiced with it.

Daryl · « **Reply #513 on:** May 31, 2017, 09:05:06 PM »

Quote from: Don Adams on May 31, 2017, 04:49:56 AM

My apologies Daryl. The buckhorn sight I've not used as a peep sight yet. Being a .32 caliber I don't shoot it much over 50 yards - but I would think it would act as a peep sight past that if I practiced with it.

Not a problem, Don - if the front sight was higher, the rear would word as a peep-sight. Taylor's .62 Hawken started with just such a sight, but he's gone back to conventional sights on it now, seems to me. This one, modeled after an original S.Hawken's rear sight.

galudwig · « **Reply #514 on:** May 31, 2017, 10:56:25 PM »

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Woodbury school squirrel rifle; .40 Colerain barrel, Davis Late English lock, Hardware forged by John House, finished out by me. My first build from a blank at the Canter's Cave Gunmaker's Workshop in 2013.

seniorsgt · « **Reply #515 on:** June 01, 2017, 04:22:49 PM »

Squirrels and rabbits

hanshi · « **Reply #516 on:** June 01, 2017, 06:49:48 PM »

These type rifles are the most interesting to me. I like the way they look. Difficult to choose between a .32, a .36 or .40.

oldtravler61 · « **Reply #517 on:** June 01, 2017, 07:41:28 PM »

Hanshi I had the same problem. So I built one of each. Nothin pretty just plain ole rodent exterminator. Oldtravler

Don Adams · « **Reply #518 on:** June 02, 2017, 04:13:34 AM »

Interesting sight Daryl.

Daryl · « **Reply #519 on:** June 02, 2017, 07:00:53 PM »

Don- Taylor simply duplicated the original Hawken sight.

It did seem to make a decent, useable aperture sight.

David R. Pennington · « **Reply #520 on:** June 03, 2017, 02:37:41 PM »

I always keep a clean sack in my pocket and clean the squirrels as soon as I shoot them. Then when I'm done I only have to clean the rifle. I make a cut right across the middle of the back, get my fingers in and pull apart skinning both ends at once. With head shots it doesn't matter, but when I was a kid I had to use a .410. My grandmother loved squirrel brains so I had to skin them out with the heads on.
Those big red squirrels are too tough sometimes. I boiled one for two days once to get it 'annealed'.

hanshi · « **Reply #521 on:** June 03, 2017, 07:50:56 PM »

Quote from: David R. on June 03, 2017, 02:37:41 PM

. I boiled one for two days once to get it 'annealed'.

That's a good one!

Daryl · « **Reply #522 on:** December 19, 2017, 11:45:47 PM »

I think this topic needs to come to the surface again, due to the proliferation of J. Kibler kit guns now being made.

iloco · « **Reply #523 on:** December 19, 2017, 11:53:10 PM »

At 21 pages of nice rifles it should be a sticky...

hanshi · « **Reply #524 on:** December 19, 2017, 11:58:41 PM »

Oh, yes; I do agree with you, Daryl.

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