squirrel rifles

[1911tex]

sse:  You asked for it..teenager in '59, hunting deer in s.texas with my flinter which was my only rifle...scored a hit, reloaded just in case, went up to the buck who jumped up, kicked my priming powder flask which which was around my neck, broke the nozzle off and up went the powder...I looked like a coal miner at the end of a days work, face, clothes everything and it was drizzling!!  You can figure out the rest.  Not pleasent...but a friend found the deer a football field away.

[sse]

That is a classic...!

[1911tex]

Not for me.....!

[geneC]

I prefer a 36cal over a 32. Just my preference and principally because in my experience, the 36 is not more destructive, bucks wind better, and is less fussy to load (much more forgiving). I also hunt with a 30 and 25cal on occasion, but the 36 is the go-to rifle.

[Hanshi]

TVM .36 SMR 3/4" x 38".  One very fine rifle.

[suzkat]

Cap,  That studded checkering and engraving are awesome.  I think I saw studded checkering only
one other time.  If I recall it was on a Melchoir Fordney rifle.  Beautiful rifle.

[Captchee]

thank you

[Kermit]

Two for small critters. One is a .25 (think #4 buck) 44" long, the other is .50 smoothbore 46" long. Next one up will be .40 x 46" in curly ash. Parts are here.

Had a .36 Seneca that was cute and accurate, but traded it off. Caps, you know.  Had a .32 x 36"  flinter. Too short in both barrel and stock, so it too was traded off. There is probably another .32 for me. Just have to live long enough.

I think of 42" barrels as about as short as I could possibly go.

[the Black Spot]

I would love to have a .36 with 38-40" barrel and stocked in ash

[wes k]

Love my .32  40" barrel

[Kermit]

Rice Barrels is doing a run of skinny swamped 44" barrels in .32, .36, and .40. Really skinny. I'm tempted.

[sse]

Love my .32  40" barrel

That is a beautiful rifle and a great pic...thanks for the effort...

[Uncle Russ]

Don't know how I missed the picture, but it is for sure a nice picture.

I have read that Squirrel Hunting is the "Prince of the Hunting Sport", and my own somewhat limited experience, while stationed and living in Skwerl Hunting Country, certainly parallels that thought. Maybe it's because of the beautiful and accurate little rifles we choose for the sport, but maybe it's something else.
At any rate, I sure do miss those early mornings spent under a canopy of hardwoods found in so many of our more Eastern states....but the memories are still there, and they are still clear as a bell.  

 

Uncle Russ..

[Hanshi]

I think you're right on, Russ.  I love the .32 and had one long before I finally got a .36.  Presently I'm having a .32 flintlock Tn rifle built.  I use a ss rod at the range with all my guns but will find a hollow brass rod for the underbarrel rod.  This decision is made even though I have used the same wood rod on my .32 with no problem for years.  Love the .32.