Short Range Sights for a PROD

[Xraycer]

I've had this sight for a couple of years now, and it works very well. It's lightweight and fairly low profile, but it doesn't hinder visual on the target much at all.



However, you'll need to use these adapters to for it on the PRod

[mobilehomer]

Something like this would be great!!



Along with this adapter -

[Ribbonstone]

Generations of airgunners have been killing short range squirrels with Sheridan/Benjmain/Crosman MSP's which (in factory form) only make about 12 foot pounds.  That energy level still works at he same short range.

[bnowlin]

Just don't shoot too close and let it bounce back and put you eye out
Bob

[Ribbonstone]

Let me go check the freezer.....


Nope...squirrels are still dead.  MIght be playing the ultimate game of possum,as they let me skin,gut, wash,quarter, bag,and freeze them without making a break for it.

But I'll pop the freezer door open now and again to try and catch them recovering from being 12 foot pound hunted.

[joer]

Like I said my squirrels are tough and they cause a lot of home damage.  My neighborhood was developed 25 years ago and live oak trees planted throughout.  Folks like me added a lot of ornamental cherry trees to our landscape.  Little did we know back then that we created a squirrel utopia.  The squirrels have pretty much a year round food source and our mild climate helped their population expand.  Eastern fox squirrels are great acrobats.  The can jump 16 feet between homes and trees.  Once our trees grew large maybe ten years ago, they were no longer prey to coyotes and household dogs.  This is when our problems began.  They got into our roofs and attics started destroying wiring and fire sprinkler pipes.  Plugging existing places where they were getting in did not help.  The over population of squirrels then resorted to lifting concrete roof tiles and boring through the plywood.  This is when my squirrel wars began.

I started catching and releasing the squirrels (30 miles away) using Havahart traps.  After two years of this, they would not go in the traps any longer.  Snares worked for a while but they got wise to them too.  I then started using a Crosman backpacker .177 with Beeman silver arrows.  That worked for a while.   I lost count at around 250 squirrels removed over the last ten years using all of the above methods.  Each generation it seemed got a little smarter and tougher to kill.  Natural selection?  I used an MROD for a while but it was a bit too conspicuous.  I then moved over to the PROD but with JSB Jumbo Exacts.  This setup produces around 13 FPE but it seemed to be not enough.  Most die right away but several ran away with upper body wounds.  I am hoping that the addition of the JSR SS balance valve will get the power up enough to drop them each time.       

[Ribbonstone]

Will give you that...the big-red squirrels of Va. are about 2-3X larger than the little gray tree squirrels I get down here in the swamps (way-south Lousiana)...but inside of 20-25 yards, the typical PO-Rod .22 14-17 foot pounds seemed to do as well on one as the other.

If you want to crank a P-Rod up to higher energy (fewer shots) it's OK by me...really aren't that many squirrels to shoot in a given afternoon to make shot count the ultimate guide.

[joer]

I finally bought one of these since it came with a dovetail mount:

TACFUN Red and Green Reflex Sight

xxx.amazon.com/gp/product/B0160EFOKA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Xraycer]

I finally bought one of these since it came with a dovetail mount:

TACFUN Red and Green Reflex Sight

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0160EFOKA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You could have saved $5 and gotten a useful adapter if you had gone my route

I've had this sight for a couple of years now, and it works very well. It's lightweight and fairly low profile, but it doesn't hinder visual on the target much at all.



However, you'll need to use these adapters to for it on the PRod