Tim Douglass wrote:

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:51:29 -0400, "PDQ" wrote:

Squirrels by .22 - anything up to 300 yds was "done for".

A quick look at my ballistics charts shows that a .22 LR will drop
about 4 *feet* by 300 yards, depending on zero. I seriously doubt that
you would be able to even sight on something the size of a squirrel
that far out unless you had either a very sophisticated scope or tall
tang peep sight.

It's not strictly impossible, but no one is doing that with a set of
standard bead and notch sight.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

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I just spent last week controlling prairie dogs on Dad's place. 100 yards
with a 22-250 and a good scope is very do-able 178 yards? Not so much.
Given that a prairie dog is about 3 times bigger than your standard
squirrel and that 22-250 shoots nice and flat out to 300 yards or so,
hitting something at 300 yards with a 22 seems a stretch.

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