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Iowa teen dies after being mistaken for squirrel during hunting trip, officials say
(www.cbsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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Why the F do kids shoot squirrels? And who the F confuses a squirrel that fits in a shoe box with room to spare with a human of near-adult size?
Squirrels are good eating.
are they still good eating when blasted with a round that can outright kill a person?
People are squishy. You can outright kill a person with .22 subsonic which is great for squirrels.
Well... It's not great for the squirrels TBF but good for the hunting anyway.
Is .22 good for squirrels?
No, it kills them... 😂
.22 is pretty much the only round you can use for squirrel wtf are you talking about
edit: I've had coffee and get the joke now
You mean like a .22 varmint round? Yes.
Dude any round can kill or maim, I had a kinsman who blew out his eye with a BBC gun back in the 50s. If a small ball round can do that imagine what a .22 or .32 could do.
I know you meant bb gun, but BBC gun is fucking hysterical!
Y'know usually I hate autocorrect but this time it's funny. Best part is it's because I was talking about the BBC company, know the TV thing.
I haven't had squirrel dumplings in ages...
The real question is why the fuck anyone would go hunting for squirrels with a large enough caliber weapon that it could kill a person.
You can drop a squirrel with a pellet air rifle im sure. Anything larger than that and youre not hunting a squirrel, youre just blowing it away.
Hunting squirrels is stupid enough on its own without doing it solely for the sake of shooting something thats alive. Thats not conservation, its blood sport
Squirrel is commonly hunted with a .22 rifle. It's a very small bullet that could easily kill a person, especially with a round to the back of the head.
Squirrels are very frequently hunted with a .22. It works great for squirrels, but (like a pellet rifle) can be lethal to a human - especially if you shoot them in the head.
And there's legitimate reasons to shoot squirrels. I used to do it for an exotic animal preserve because their population would explode and they'd eat everything in site.
got a few friends who would go out to the family farm and hunt squirrel for a week for just this reason.
https://ammo.com/articles/gun-death-statistics-by-caliber