Choose your Sickness...

I’d take it as the Varminator!
We have a Glenfield that sits in the shop with the pressed wood stock.
It looks cool, I want it, but it isn’t for sale. Because we have squirrel problems in the quanset.

Once dinged you’ll have a memento of when it happened on the hunt.
Some humans like that kinda stuff. I prefer my stuff unscathed when I show it off.

Neither

If it has a trigger and propels a projectile and leaves me with all my fingers intact…….it’s firmly in my wheelhouse. I’ll take either. Hell, I’ve been known to get the giggles from a nail gun.

I am a walnut and blued steel kinda guy from way back. The new ones have lots of utility but i just dig the retro look.

I'm a cute squirrel rifle guy. My 50 year old 10/22 serves me well.

What are the squirrels using?

I've come to appreciate wood stocks more lately. Option A.

I'm partial to the squirrel, bought one a few years ago, my wife laid claim to it though. So I guess I'm plinking with what the squirrel's are using.

My first thought though, while reading the Op was 31, and 36 cal muzzle loader's, then I saw the squirrel on the stock.

I can't seem to miss with my $150 Marlin 60 w/ iron sights.
I plink with a plinker.

I prefer bolt guns over the 'shoot a lot' class. However, I prefer a grown up rifle in .22. I wanted a CZ rifle (in .22 long rifle) but found a Zastava that fits the bill.

I use a Savage Rascal which I'd say is a Cute Squirrel Rifle.

The small squirrel engraved on the wood stock seals the deal for me. Just very quaint and kind of cute.

I’d pick my daughter’s cricket over those. Not my cupotea. Speaking of squirrels the season starts in a few days in Ga. Mmmmmm dumplings and Brunswick stew.

I'd probably grab the wood stock version, but the VARMINATOR is cool!

Please for the love all things bushy and tasty get a nicer scope for the 60. Gives me headaches and blurry vision the thought of those old 4x 15/20mm tascos.

The cute squirrel rifle plucks the "one shot, one kill" strings in my heart.

illinoisburt said:

Please for the love all things bushy and tasty get a nicer scope for the 60. Gives me headaches and blurry vision the thought of those old 4x 15/20mm tascos.

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I had one of those on a 10/22. Definitely go with a better scope.

Got distracted by the sights - definitely wood stock!

mokin said:

Definitely go with a better scope.

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Agreed; I have a Marlin model 99 that wears a Bushnell 6x40. Plenty of magnification for whatever a person wants to do with a 22. Don't look too bad, either.

Mac

How about you try a 7mm Rem Mag just because...

Paul R Zartman said:

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I now am thinking I might need to pick a different caliber...

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NEVER trust a squirrel!

My Ruger 10/22 is a great squirrel gun. ..but my .410 is a little better!

We voters need a third choice; ..... "Undecided", as I like both of the first two choices so much.

Kevin Keith said:

I use a Savage Rascal which I'd say is a Cute Squirrel Rifle.

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..... Now there's another nice option. Picked up a Rascal a few years ago for the step grand daughters and it's so much fun I shoot it as much as they do. Seriously thinking of squirrel hunting with it come fall just for grins and because it's got great accuracy and even has an Accutrigger. Scoped it last year out of curiosity and so I could get more accuracy out of it. May go back to the excellent iron sights with that nice aperture ( peep ) sight on the rear of the receiver after squirrel season this year. Here's one of the younger crowd shooting it before it got the scope, .. and after, , and of course the old timers can't resist playing with it, either.. Some kids just never seem to grow up....... .....This fall I want a picture of this rifle with a freshly harvested squirrel.