• ToastedRavioli
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    1 month ago

    The real question is why the fuck anyone would go hunting for squirrels with a large enough caliber weapon that it could kill a person.

    You can drop a squirrel with a pellet air rifle im sure. Anything larger than that and youre not hunting a squirrel, youre just blowing it away.

    Hunting squirrels is stupid enough on its own without doing it solely for the sake of shooting something thats alive. Thats not conservation, its blood sport

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      1 month ago

      Squirrel is commonly hunted with a .22 rifle. It’s a very small bullet that could easily kill a person, especially with a round to the back of the head.

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      Squirrels are very frequently hunted with a .22. It works great for squirrels, but (like a pellet rifle) can be lethal to a human - especially if you shoot them in the head.

      And there’s legitimate reasons to shoot squirrels. I used to do it for an exotic animal preserve because their population would explode and they’d eat everything in site.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        their population would explode and they’d eat everything in site.

        got a few friends who would go out to the family farm and hunt squirrel for a week for just this reason.