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2 on Sunday morning -1 Mr and 1 Mrs, skinned, gutted, cooked and now sitting in the freezer. Friends coming round in a few weeks for pie! Both shot with my FWB 127 .22 using Napier Power Hunter pellets. My tally for 2011 - 2 Forum tally for 2011 - 178

Probably my last update this year so I'm on 28 (only 8 more since my last update in the summer) and the board is on 1276

Another little lady bit the dust (or should that be lead) this morning, so 20 now for me this year and 774 for the forum. Seems to be fewer around in the heat. Me - 20, Forum - 774

With my newly delivered FWB Sport 127, I managed to bag 2 this morning, and since my last update I've shot a few more with my Ultra, so my tally is now: Ultra - 15 FWB Sport 127 - 2 Total this year 17 Forum total now 711

I'll add another 2 taking my tally to 11 (don't seem to be many about in my garden at the moment!) and the grand tally to: 657

Well after having shot about 60-70 RWS Superpoint Field Line .177 pellets through my Ultra today I must admit I'm quite pleased with the accuracy - suffice to say VERY pleased (at about 20yds only though). I'm getting groupings of around 10-15mm which for me is excellent!

I'll add another 2 to the list taking my total this year to 9 and the forum total to 225

As a newbie to a lot of this, what makes them rubbish? Do they have poor flight stability or because they are pointed do they over penetrate? If they are no good for vermin etc, then they'll get used for random plinking and targets etc.

I do have one more to add to the count which I've not added yet! Ref some of the answers, I've had twitchers and wrigglers (well summersaulters!) and hence have always sent another pellet into the squirrel as best I can. At least I know to expect that sort of behaviour - it came as a bit of a shock at first and I thought I wasn't hitting them well enough. I have some superdomes and some fieldpoints inbound so I'll see what happens with those (assuming I get any more squirrels in my garden!).

Hi, I'm fairly new to this activity and have already bagged myself 8 squirrels this year. I've been watching a few vids on YouTube and in most that I've seen the squirrel seems to die quite quickly, though I have seen a few (good shots in the head) where the squirrel will twitch for quite some time afterwards (say 5-10 seconds). When I've shot mine, I've had fairly clean head shots but my squirrels also seem to take a few seconds (5-10) to die, by which time I'm usually loading another pellet into the gun to shoot again to put it out of its misery. When I've then looked at the dead squirrel close up, I see my first shot behind the eye and the second shot elsewhere (I know they are in that order as the second shot is usually at a wriggling squirrel and hence is all over the place, not cleanly behind the eye). I'm currently shooting with .177 Hobby wadcutters at about 20 yds max and I know I'm on target (lots of practise at paper etc). My rifle is a BSA Ultra ss which I've chrono'd at about 10.5ftlbs. My question is should I be worried that they are not dying immediately, or is it ok (like a chicken which will wriggle for a short while afterwards) and I shouldn't worry too much? I'll caveat my YouTube watching by saying I've also seen a few where the squirrel falls after being shot, is fairly motionless for a few seconds and then wriggles again (like mine!).

And another one this morning - total for me this year 7, total for the board 187

If you've got access to Airgunbbs, see here : Airgunbbs, failing that, call Woodys of Wembley (0208 9027217) as they had a stock of 25 back in the last week of Feb. I've no connection, just saw the info on bbs and thought I'd help where possible.

3 more this weekend, 1 yesterday, 2 this morning before breakfast (mine not theirs!) running total now 181

I've only just seen this post and having had my BSA Ultra for only a few weeks I've already managed to bag 3, more inbound, so the total is now 155