Squirrels and pellet guns

[Bear Foot Farm]

It depends a LOT on the particular gun.

Many BB guns don't have the power to penetrate much of any thing, and it's the same with some of the pellet rifles.

When you get into the more high powered guns, they DO have the capability of killing small game with a well placed shot

 

[lindamarie]

You can kill with a pellet gun, because of a very picky guy living next door to us we can no longer shoot our shotgun to kill the squirrels, so we use the pellet gun, once sighted in kills very good, no problem with my chickens,, but they love my house. Good luck.

 

[Wifezilla]

I have a Daisy Red Rider bb gun. I have shot many squirrels. Never killed a single one. The idiot clerk my husband bought it from said it would kill squirrels. I told him I wanted a Crosman. Grrrrrr.....
http://www.amazon.com/Crosman-Quest-1000X-Breakbarrel-Rifle/dp/B0018LB6V2

 

[Chick Charm]

A pellet gun will kill a squirrel. Truly it depends on the power of the air rifle but most if not all are powerfull enough. Dead squirrel for sure. You would be better off proofing your set up though. Proofing will be more effective. Not nearly as much fun though.

 

[patman75]

I haved used my gamo big cat 1200 fps pellet gun to hunt squirells. A head shot will kill them instantly, a double lung shot will have them running but they will die. They are tough.

I also use my pellet gut to dispatch raccoons that I catch in live traps. It is very powerful pellet gun.

I would not use a BB gun.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Bird shot works good, too! LOL We don't have them this high up though they are down the road. I'm glad we don't have them around. It would be one more animal for me to have to worry about !

 

[fishman65]

the gamo whisper line of pellet guns are very quiet and lethal...they have over 1000fps with pellets and will take out a lot of animals..even foxes and racoons. You can get them online or bigger sports stores. Whatever you get make sure that it has at least 1000fps no less. Academy sports has a great line of air guns. bass pro and gander mountain also is good but a little pricey.

 

[GarlicEater]

A Red Ryder is a great fun plinking gun. But not good for killing much larger than a grasshopper.

Your smaller, "youth" pellet guns, like my Gamo Delta, is good for rats, pest birds (takes careful shot placement on a crow) etc but not quite powerful enough for good kills on squirrels.

A standard adult pellet gun, like the Gamo Whisper (it's a Gamo Big Cat with a silencer, cool) will do just fine on squirrels if you do your part. I recommend Pyramyd Air to buy these from, and I highly recommend the Pyramyd Air Report blog, by B.B. Pelletier, for reading on all things pellet (and BB).

 

[ShortCircuitRanch2332]

any PELLET gun over 800 FPS (feet per second) will work aim for vitals but the head is much better walmart carries a variety of pellet rifles that work very good

 

[Wifezilla]

Thanks for the recommendation GarlicEater