coosa, Blake looks like a spunky dog. I haven't squirrel hunted in over a third of a century. When I did I shot a single shot Remington M41 TargetMaster which I still have and a Ruger 10/22 which I don't have. Both were fine squirrel guns. I never hunted with a dog, but I run into dog hunters during woodcock season. One group comes from the mountains to hunt the area and I asked if they didn't have squirrels in the mountains. "Yes, but we don't have flat land." They were as serious about squirrel hunting as we are about turkeys. Gil