Went squirrel hunting late this afternoon around 4ish and took my Pedersoli 12 ga. sxs shotgun to see if I could go bust a tree rat. I sat down at a place or two and tried calling them with my caller but they weren't out that much or talkative. Towards the end of walking the draw which I sometimes call my "squirrel honey hole" I was crossing the dry creek bottom and see on scaling down a tree and move in closer on the other bank and bust him. I have never seen so much smoke from a muzzleloader in my life on this shot :haha:. I guess it's just the atmosphere today because it took forever for the smoke to settle on this. I used 80 gr. 2ffg blackpowder, 4 overshot cards, 1 1/8 oz. of #6s, and an over shot card seated with a greased patch to lube the barrel. This load works out to about 25 yards in the cylinder barrel and about 30 in the modified choke barrel. You could probably kill them farther with it but I don't want to take risks like that.
