I went squirrel hunting to day with my .22lr, and i i took 2 chest shots and 1 or 2 anywhere shots on it. ?

the squirrel took off like nothing happened and i never found it. this happened to me 2 times before. I have been using Remington CB22 low noise rounds. there cross-x hollow point rounds pushing a 32grain bullet around 800fps. Now ive killed many squirrels with my .22 air rifle that's pushing a pointed 14.3grain at 800fps, and they never did this. Also ive killed many squirrels with a regular .22lr. But i want to be more quite where im hunting now. Any advice?I went squirrel hunting to day with my .22lr, and i i took 2 chest shots and 1 or 2 anywhere shots on it. ?
Those are pretty slow .22lr rounds. I don't think that they are strong enough. Get some better ones (40gr high velocity hollow points should do the trick). If you need to be quiet, then get a suppressor from the ATF.I went squirrel hunting to day with my .22lr, and i i took 2 chest shots and 1 or 2 anywhere shots on it. ?
First, you need more target practice.


A penny is aproximately 3/4';. When you can shoot pennies with a .22 RIMFIRE at 50+ yards, THEN you can go hunting.





A 32gr at 800 will NOT go as far, or have the same trajectory as a 14.3gr at 800!





You missed him, and he left the area!


IF you hit a squirrel in the chest with a .22 hollow-point, I can GUARANTEE that he is NOT going to run off!





In spite of being in the same caliber, air-gun pellets and .22 rifle bullets do NOT follow the same trajectories. (NEITHER do CB rounds and LR rounds!)


Be sure your rifle is sighted in correctly WITH THE ROUNDS YOU WILL USE when hunting!
I have some advice! Stop taking marginal shots on squirrels with an underpowered round. When you do these things, and then put it in writing for all to see, you do a disservice to all ethical hunters. You need to take a hunter education course and learn ethics and proper shot placement. The fact that you state this has happened before shows you do not have the maturity to be hunting yet. You should learn from mistakes, not repeat them. An animal's life is involved, and you have no right to repeatedly wound squirrels like this.





Put the gun down and get some hands on training from someone who knows how to hunt.





Let the thumb downs begin.
i have a marlin model 60 and got it at walmart for around 180 with a scope on it and it can kill a squirrel without a problem if you hit it. i would recommend taking head shots, so you dont ruin the meat and it will definitely kill the squirrel. i just bought some cci stingers and they would blow a squirrels head off. i recommend getting better bullets that have higher fps like federal value pack 550 rounds hp for around $13 will do the job. good luck with your problem!
first, shoot a target on paper to make sure you are sighted in properly. If you are hitting the bull's eye, then take head shots. You don't mess up any meat that way, and a squirrel doesn't have much meat to spare.


Or buy a 17 HMR (power,power,power).
first, shoot a target on paper to make sure you are sighted in properly. If you are hitting the bull's eye, then take head shots. You don't mess up any meat that way, and a squirrel doesn't have much meat to spare.
the gun obviously is not sighted in draw a target on a box and try to shoot the bullseye 5 times then if the shots are grouping adjust the sights for elevation first then windage keep repeating this process
first sight in your rifle perfect. then also make sure ur actually hitting then squirrel. because u can be hitting the ground and not notice. and if it still dont work i would try out the 17 HMR
As others have said, check the zero on your rifle and go for headshots.
shoot them in the head
semi auto and shoot it more. or use a shotgun...
I know of the problem you're experiencing, so seem to be saying that you have the rifle zeroed in properly with regular .22LR ammo. But when you're hunting squirrel you're using subsonic CB ammo, which I know will shoot about 2'; lower at 25 yards than regular high velocity .22LR ammo (like the 550 rd bulk pack federal ammo at walmart).





All bullet's flight path in the air is never straight like a laser beam. If the rifle is zeroed at 100 yards, it will always be a couple inches high at 50 yards and many more inches low at 200 yards. The higher the velocity, the flatter the bullet trajectory, likewise the slower the bullet the more-rainbow like the trajectory is.


In the case of your .22LR rifle, in your regular ammo you have zeroed it at 40 yards. At shorter ranges the bullets will probably be a bit low, maybe 50-60 yards a little high and at 70-80 yards zeroed again, after than it'll hit low. Using stinger ammo, the trajectory will be much flatter, so at 25, 50, and 75 yards the bullet hits may only differ about 2'; or so. It will appear to hit lower than regular velocity ammo, but that's just because its shooting flatter and doesn't go up as much.AT longer ranges it will appear to hit higher than regular velocity ammo because it doesn't drop as much. And again, if you shoot CB subsonic ammo thru your rifle the bullets will always seem to hit low.





Solution: go to a range with large paper targets, map out where your rifle puts various kinds of ammo at various ranges (multiples of 10 or 25 yards). Then when you change ammo you know who the round would fly and how to compensate when it doesn't hit your target (shooting low or high).