Pest Control with Air Rifles - Squirrel Shooting - Hornet .22 

I hope it was a good 40mins ;-)

YIHAAAA .. Score high man... death to all Tree Rats...

Does it not get too warm in the greenhouse?

Squirrel Hunter great video but a pellet destruction videos be great do them hornets destroy rats good ?

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Cheers, Warren, but I would still go for the hunter extremes instead of these tbh.

Cheers, Michael ;-)

And it switches on it's own, too ;-)

You are welcome ;-)

Esdez RIGHT! I may discipline myself and break this up into 20 minutes per week Lol!

+Squirrel Hunter dang surprised how some squirrels are pellet proof lol great footage too but a pellet testing in Plasticine be a great video too if you can do one ?🔫🐺🐾👍

Random Fox personally, I don't Hunt Plasticine!?

Lol, don't lose your sleep over a video! It will be there when you wake up ;-)

Squirrel Hunter Absolutely. Also, Saber, you'll find SH videos go exceptionally well with breakfast ;-)

Thank you, Ralph ;-)

Thank you ;-) I didn't bother to do a necropsy after what I saw as there wasn't much point tbh.

You are welcome ;-)

Really like to add how also incredibly lethal on squirrel noggins the .25 caliber Diablo Hades pellets are as well. Actually the same can be said about the Diablo Hades in .22 caliber as well with a stout shooting rifle such as my Hatsan Flash wood QE, the Umarex Origin, and/or my Umarex Gauntlet II. Pure cranial pass throughs rarely if ever a twitch when I do my part correctly. 👍🇺🇸🐿🎯

Three is better than none, so well done! Stick with it and more will come in time.

I had higher hopes for them really.

Agreed. If you have to pierce a thicker skull, the Hornets might by a good choice. for the foil-thin craniums of tree rats a heavy hollow point lead pill is probably the better medicine.

Not all hollow points are created equal either, as you will see in the next vid.

@SH Looking forward to that! The H&N Baracuda Hunter Extreme in .25 is my favorite, with the H&N Sport Hollow Point as a close second. Interested to learn about your findings. Whatever you do, don't waste money on Crosman Premier Destroyers.

I call for crow magnum try outs. If they are accurate or you can work with them at range. Great video!

Cheers, Gunner, we will have a rabbit video at some point this year I think. I still prefer the hunter extremes in this test group. The terminators worked well also.

Sorry for my late reply, holiday season has been upon me! Poor quality control isn't acceptable these days! Although I do find JSB to be generally good, but I haven't bought any in a while. Let me know how you do with the H&Ns ;-)

You are welcome, Mike ;-)

Thank you ;-) Have you tried the hunter extremes?

Not yet! but I definitely do mean to pick some up. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how effective and accurate they were against squirrels in .22 caliber and rats in .177. Good shooting Sir!

BigLeagueGaming Wouldn't you say the sheer penetration power makes them more suited to larger targets?

Where are you, Andrew?

Deepest, Darkest Mid Wales. On the side of a hill. A ten minute walk, upwards, is the Epynt Common, a desolate and barren place. Unless one counts sheep as nature.

Thanks, Clint ;-) I do have a video for later in the year where the bird watching is awesome!

Thank you ;-) My bad - they must have given up sooner than the season end! It's only a small shoot they have for themselves and I don't shoot the things myself.

Thanks, Moose ;-)

Lol! Thanks for watching ;-)

Look out for the squirrel carrying a screwdriver :-D

Peter Pan Take down the engineers first, they're sabotaging our structures!

And me ;-)

The 5 "p's"! You've given me an idea, Danny ;-)

Squirrel Hunter you could add picking pellets 👍 theres a good segment of a video to be made I'm sure mate.

The 9 "P's" - Perfect preparation, practice and patience prevents pi$$ poor pellet placement

Squirrel Hunter sounds good to me!

Lol!

I'd test their accuracy before testing on live quarry first, if I were you.

I knew they were not dead, but not that it was called "fencing". Thanks for the info ;-)

I won't be hunting with this pellet again.

No problem, David! You are correct about the Victorians and I wouldn't dream of anything other than a humane shot!

Bro and Bruv will be back in a month or so!

I rate the hunter extremes very highly, did you see the vids I did with them?

Yep! sure did! I think I recommended them to you about a year or so ago and so I was particularly interested to see how your rifles would get on with them and their effect on squirrels in .22. They looked to have done the job for you on the rats in .177 as well.

Thanks, Christopher ;-)

Cheers, Lee, I hope you let the kids have some chocky?

Same old camera but with the new microphone ;-) I Prefer the hunter Extremes to these tbh. I'm sorry, I can't remember seeing a message from you?

I'll go try to see what happened. I hate FaceBook, it seems like I can't ever get it to do what I want. (Except post everything public, it does that well)

Theyre both about the same weight so energy will be about the same for both. I would go with the more accurate one. Airguns tend to have a pellet that they are more accurate with than others.

They don't interbreed as far as I know, but the greys do have a "ginger tinge" to them which I think is seasonal, but not sure about that though.

Thanks, Colin ;-)

Cheers, Bill ;-)

Mostly only 15yds. No need to go further back and often in the woods you struggle to anyway.

That's about 7.38ft/lbs which I would suggest is on the low side.

Thank you, Barry ;-)

I have and the standard hunter pellets didn't match the hunter extremes in my outings. Glad you liked the vid ;-)

Thanks for the information. I will try out the Extremes in .25 cal tonight.

You are welcome ;-) Bro uses powapels all the time!

Thank you ;-)

Glad you liked it ;-)

That might be ok for my FAC .20?!

Very often the camera catches things I missed.

@@SquirrelHunter I'm sorry my comment actually sounded rude! I did not mean it that way at all! Seriously good shooting, love the videos !!

@@Nirinium I never took it as rude. I was just saying something I've come to know very well since we've been filming our sessions. It often amazes me what we miss while focusing on something else.

The length was because of the footage I got and should be normally around the half hour. That said the next one up is longer than this ;-)

Thank you, Bill ;-) Have you seen our other vids?

It's a squirrel feeder, but thank you anyway ;-)

My barrel is as I bought it.

Thank you and likewise, Harold ;-)

In what way? I have an open offer to write for at least one, but I haven't got the time.

Squirrel Hunter to do an article on pest control

Whatever I wrote I would still have to find time to do a good job. What type of article would you prefer to read?

I prefer to watch your pest control videos than air gun magazines

So I should make more vids and not write for an air rifle mag then?

I will be, Lee ;-)

It's have to pass the accuracy test first ;-)

We use wheat (like they use in pheasant feeders) in just about all ours. We have used peanuts, but they are expensive. Do NOT, I repeat NOT mix the two together. Unless you want the squirrels to dig out all of the wheat searching for peanuts. You have been warned! Oh, and good luck ;-)

Ok. Cheers mate. Daz

Let me know how you get on!

Squirrel Hunter will do mate the place is amazing. 4 acres. 3 buildings. Out houses. Donkeys. Sheep and the owner is the coolest person I've meet. Building big feeders now. Cheers Daz

Good advise. looking for answers and finding them.

Maybe I did?! It'll be back next time though ;-)

Squirrel Hunter always gotta leave some for next time haha

Good pellet!

Thanks, Tony ;-) No I didn't, as just about every pellet I've ever fired at that range will go through a squirrel skull easily. I knew their accuracy and they would go into the skull, I just didn't know how well they delivered a killing blow.

Lol!

That happens quite often!

Thank you ;-)

I'm pretty sure they are marked due to being interference fits. Glad you liked the vids ;-)

It seems more of a penetrator and not as good as the hunter extremes for what I want.

Feel free to watch them all repeatedly ;-)

I couldn't agree more!

Thank you ;-)

Indeed!

Just gave ya a shout out on my channel. Hope all is well and hope you have a wonderful Easter!! Love Brother!!

Thanks for that! I might include that in a video!

Cheers, Mel ;-)

You are welcome ;-)

Lol!

Thanks, Geoff ;-)

Not as good as I'd hoped, unfortunately.

Oh well, onto the next one

I prefer the hunter extremes tbh.

The tips looked fine to me. My camera isn't vertical over the pellets so might give the impression of "crooked", but the tips are hard and it would take some effort to bend them. Oddly enough I had been shooting them a lot to test so the tin would have less in it, so I don't see your point. The tin looked perfectly fine and there were that many loose tips I would have found at least a few bodies without one, but I never. I don't shake my tins of pellets. Conclusion? The factory had some issue and tips got into the tin.

We are thanks, Scott ;-)

I didn't like the terminal performance anywhere near as much as I liked the hunter extremes.

In my experience of head shooting approx 2 dozen plus tree rats with the H&N Hornets from both my Hatsan Bullboss .25 caliber and my Umarex Origin .22 cal, in every instance the brass point and lead body seperate in the skull with the hard brass point always passing completely through and the lead pellet body, actually a hollow point without the brass tip expanding violently within the skull. Thus performing a 2 stage pass thru/energy dump both with one single pellet/shot for incredibly instantaneous "Not even a twitch" humane kills. In case you're interested the PolyMag plastic pointed tips do almost exactly the same thing, same performance as well. Both outstanding small game performing pellets out of fairly powerful air rifles. And more often than not also very accurate. At least out of the majority of my PCP's AND also even quite a few of my upper quality break barrels. 🖒🇺🇸

That's interesting. Most of our pellets go straight through a side on squirrel skull, even sub 12. I know for a fact their skulls are thin and offer little resistance. The predator polymag shorts and baracuda hunter extremes seem to smash them more effectively than most.

I've no doubt that virtually any pellet will do the job given the powerful PCP's you use. In my case, I am using a modified springer that puts out 25 joules with the 18 grain Hornet giving me about 12 yards of effective kill range with open sights zeroed in at 10 yards. In my brother-in-law's dairy barn we're dealing with huge urban grey squirrels and giant Norway and roof rats. The barn cats stay clear of them. When the cows are out to pasture, we use .22 rim fires but when the cows are in we switch to air. The vermin have the upper hand since silencers and night hunting are prohibited by law, so our cull numbers are substantially lower than yours. We rely heavily on watching what captures the attention of the barn cats to find our targets. A challenge indeed.

Thanks, Paul ;-)

Aaron Garey HERETIC!

Then there are a few you've missed then!

Lol, Gunner!

I think there are more birds, but I have no proof. The reds are no where near us and what we do has no effect on their plight because of that. I like it better when we shoot the females, for obvious reasons.

Thanks, Steve ;-)

Normally we get a lot of males and it seems rare to get more females in a group. Their main damage where I live is to trees and buildings etc.