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What would comprise a single season squirrel slam?...Geo

All the legal (nonendangered) tree squirrels in North America.

This guy did it using a shotgun. I'd use a rifle and after that, I might try it with a handgun. But I am a terrible pistol shot, generally. I'd need a lot of practice.

Here is one I got lucky on last winter. This was about 20 yds out with an Eley Subsonic HP. Bullet was recovered - a rarity.

I don't know what this one won't play.

Anybody want to bet, the photo above(page 5) is George's favorite? One grand baby is worth three of your own children.
Mike

Or- one baby grand (Steinway, Bosendorffer, Baldwin) worth how many of those kiddies??) Grand slam on tree rats- What is that?? Whack 'em and stack 'em-- Like shooting rats at the township dump- except tree rats get airborne- junk yard rats not so much.

I'll stay with CCI hollow-points for all my varmint shooting with my .22's-- RWTF

RWTF, If you think squirrels are varmints and not the finest eating game animal on the continent, well, I feel sorry for you.

Squirrel, especially the gray squirrel is my favorite wild game to eat. Yum. Squirrel gravy is the best.

FWIW, my favorite load for "the grey death" is Winchester 42gr hollow point subsonics. They hit hard, expand nicely, and subsonic 22 is simply more accurate. Plus the added benefit of not "cracking" the air means you dont scare everything proximate in the woods into scurrying away.

CCI subsonic (not "quiet" load) is a close second.
The older Winchester 40gr subsonic hollow points (grey box) were also quite good.

Im not sure is Winchester is even importing the 42gr load anymore...theyre made in Oz.

If available, I recommend an "adequate" supply. Thats how Rolls Royce used to rate the horsepower in their engines...simply "adequate."

NDG

Squirrel. The other dark meat.

Best,
Ted

I will be the oddball in the group and say that when I was a "serious" squirrel hunter I used a 10-22 with an aftermarket bull barrel and CCI Stingers. This was back when I kept squirrel dogs and hunted often. I used the 10-22 especially on the trips when I hunted alone. My thinking was that if the dogs treed the squirrel they deserved the chance to retrieve the squirrel, and I thought the Stingers gave me the best chance of making that happen.

When they treed a squirrel in big longleaf pine, it was a real challenge to spot him, and when I was alone it was a real challenge to shoot him even after he was spotted. The squirrel would often swap sides of the tree or limb when I moved, and many times getting a head shot was impossible. The good thing about the Stingers was that you could hit the squirrel almost anywhere and knock him out of the tree, and if he hit the ground he belonged to the dogs.

The Stingers were also not as inaccurate as many would think in that particular gun. It didn't have a match chamber, and I've heard that they will often shoot better in a gun that doesn't have a tight chamber. I bought that barrel because others told me it would shoot them, and it will consistently shoot 10 shot groups under an inch at 50 yards. That won't win matches, but they would do an amazing job of killing squirrels even on marginal hits.

But I usually hunted with a group of folks and I would carry my 10" Contender. It shot Winchester Power Points better than Stingers. I usually didn't take the shot anyway if I had a group, and I always got one guy to carry a shotgun to get any runners or to get one that a rifle missed.

My dogs all got old and died and I don't have one now. I miss having them. Most of them were Treeing Feist, but my best dog was half Feist and half Rat Terrier. Since he wasn't pure bred, the field trial guys didn't want him and I got for $100. Blake was the best bargain I ever got in my life.

Coosa;
When hunting with dogs like that the sonic crack is not of importance as it is under other conditions. As I stated earlier most of my squirrel hunting was done early in the season which at that point in time here in TN opened Sept 1. The leaves were still on & the squirrels were in the trees cutting mast. In my area, this was primarily hickory nuts, beech & acorns. I have also taken them out of Dogwood trees. My average shot was probably around 50 feet, not yards.

I have both heard & read over the years that hunting with a rifle under these conditions was fruitless & a shotgun was a necessity when the leaves were on. I simply ignored this "Fact" & went right on killing my squirrels with a .22. Our l.limit then was 6 & I often took at least 4 out of a single tree before moving to another & sometimes the limit.

The lack of the sonic crack was of more importance under these conditions than extreme accuracy. That lowly Mossberg firing those CIL 40-grain standard vel 40-grain greased lead solids was capable of hitting the head every shot. I didn't do it 100% of the time, but I had to take the blame when I missed. I could have spent Hundreds of dollars on a premium rifle, premium scope rather than the little Bushnell & premium target ammo, but I doubt I would have killed even a single extra squirrel over the course of the season.

My whole point for this thread was the factor the Sonic Crack played under conditions where a group of squirrels is working a single tree, which is more the norm than the exception in the early season.