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Originally Posted by jaia
Thanks for the education squirrel.
Chipping away at ignorance is a good thing.  |
You see a good squirrel rig for when leaves are off. The more accurate rifle not necessarily the best choice.
Speed, trajectory of hm2 can allow some things to happen in the woods where anneven more accurate 22lr for example would not be able to do or do as well.
Is my Annie 1710 more accurate than my lilja barrel equipped hm2? YES
With the right ammo it is.
Might sound strange what I have said here. But true.
At 100 yards for example with a 50 yard zero using 22 lr hv. A person has to hold around 5 inches high. Meaning bullet is that high above line of sight. So hard to judge a limb, or twig say at 60 yards and determine if it is or isn’t in bullet flight path.
What a person sees in the woods line of sight to squirrel hm2 round hugs this line tighter.
And scope parallax (focus) can make these twigs/limbs harder to see at mid range to target on the longer shots.
For the avid squirrel hunter this indeed is a REAL good tip.
You have your parallax set to 100 yards and you see a squirrel st 100 yards. The limbs, twigs at 30 yards can be hard to see too in the scope.
Folks can experiment innthe woods and they will definitely understand better. Remember my scope only goes to 10x. Wonder if a person dials their scope to 16x or 20x or 24x? The more mag one uses the more this not being able to see smaller twigs,etc (at closer distances) can happen when actual parallax is adjusted for longer distance shots.
Also.
Another good tip.
With experience a squirrel hunter who is using a scoped weapon will learn to lower their scope and peek to see if any limbs, etc will be hit by round before the round makes it to actual line of sight.
You see good squirrel hunting involves lot more than just sighting and firing.
Another good tip.
Actually a very skilled squirrel hunter using say 22 lr will learn they can actually hit what they can’t see at distance(assuming correct scope elevation is dialed in). . They can aim literally at a limb blocking their sight path and still connect on squirrel. Distance of shot using 22 lr and where the obstacle is distance wise in relation to quarry.
Bottom line:
Good squirrel hunters becomes extremely familiar of their rifles bullet trajectory as soon as it leaves the barrel and travels farther and farther.
And remember angle of shot (up or down) will affect if rifle has been zeroed in the level.
This is why the sharpshooters using iron sights using 22 rimfire will use fine bead when shooting up and coarse bead when shooting in the level.
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