Here you go, Anschutz 54 on a stock I built.I would love it if someone here shoots squirrels with an Anschutz......it's a personal goal of mine
Tree Squirrel Rifles
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Tikka T1X. These are great rifles out of the box.
I also built a hollow pointing die, makes some cheap round nose bullets into great squirrel ammo. Just pulled my Remington out while at the range and shot it at a couple old targets at 100yds.
Remington 581 with 3.5-10. This was my wife's uncles rifle and he had broken the stock. I built a scope mount for his Marlin 39 to put a 1" scope on and he gave this barreled action to me. I tightened the headspace, shortened and re-crowned the barrel, pillared and bedded. I also reworked the trigger, right at about 24oz. Cheapest squirrel rifle I have and its my favorite. He is in a care center now and he loves seeing pictures of this rifle and the squirrels it gets as well as talking about the modifications to it. He is an incredible man.
I also built a hollow pointing die, makes some cheap round nose bullets into great squirrel ammo. Just pulled my Remington out while at the range and shot it at a couple old targets at 100yds.
Remington 581 with 3.5-10. This was my wife's uncles rifle and he had broken the stock. I built a scope mount for his Marlin 39 to put a 1" scope on and he gave this barreled action to me. I tightened the headspace, shortened and re-crowned the barrel, pillared and bedded. I also reworked the trigger, right at about 24oz. Cheapest squirrel rifle I have and its my favorite. He is in a care center now and he loves seeing pictures of this rifle and the squirrels it gets as well as talking about the modifications to it. He is an incredible man.
It's a Remington 541-S. These were built on the 540X action, have a match chamber, but were built in the same style as the contemporary 700 BDL.
LoneTraveler
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Our dog sport treed 2 greys in a tree on edge of meadow. I shot both out of tree, I was 8 years old. The rifle was a 69A Win. with peep rear sight. Made many pot of squirrel gravy with that old rifle. When I started building muzzleloaders I built a .32 cal. Cap lock. Many squirrels fell to that rifle. I got hold of a 32 cal. Douglas 1 1/4" across the flats. 2nd barrel had a drill wobble abut 2" from end. Had it shortened 4" and cut down to 3/4" across the flats. This was before 3/4" was made commercially. Had to make breech and finale myself.
Killed many squirrels with "Broom Handle". When age changed my eyes, Could see 3 rear sights could not hit anything. Sold it. 10/22 with heavy barrel, Laminated stock. CZ 452 Varmit, I now have a CZ 457 22LR I am tuning on for my next adventure.
Killed many squirrels with "Broom Handle". When age changed my eyes, Could see 3 rear sights could not hit anything. Sold it. 10/22 with heavy barrel, Laminated stock. CZ 452 Varmit, I now have a CZ 457 22LR I am tuning on for my next adventure.
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