What's fun about this m/l sport , is the nuance situations discovered. I accidentally ran into one of these adventures , and think I learned something. One late afternoon during flint lock deer season , no deer came down the trail I was watching , and all afternoon a large nosey grey squirrel sat on a partilally down tree trunk , scolding again and again. If any deer might have come to me , they heard the never ending commotion beside me. The grey became part of camp supper. Once I examned the place where his head was , the 150 gr. ball using 80 gr. FFFG , had vaporized his head and neck , and the wound across the squirrel's shoulder was clean like severed with a meat cleaver. All this got me to thinking , that this vaporization due to too much power , just to kill a small animal , would be best throttled down by using smaller calibers , and reduced powder charges. Up until now , when squirrel hunting , I had used a .36 cal with 30 Gr. FFFG. I found I could use the squirrel's rib cage as my aiming point , with minimal damage to the meat . Squirrel heads are too small for me to hit beyond 15 yds. , so the ribs are a better choice. I've fell in love with the .40 cal for woods running. 30 gr. FFFG is my load to keep the vaporization down , but confidence says a coyote will die , if I shoot it w/ this load.....oldwood
