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WHEN I WAS A KID, my favorite place to be in winter was on the hardwood ridges behind my neighbor Ronnie’s house, with my .22 rifle in hand. Ronnie loved fried squirrel, and filling his skillet was my fee for accessing the choice woods via his yard.

But he was picky. He wouldn’t take old squirrels, and he didn’t put up with sloppy marksmanship. One morning I knocked on his door and proudly showed off a limit of grays—all hit through the body.

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He turned them down flat. “Head shots only,” he said.

I quickly learned that the winter woods, when squirrels are in a frenzy over making more squirrels, would provide plenty of opportunities for head shots if I was patient.

A few mornings later, I knocked on ­Ronnie’s door with six head-shot gray squirrels in hand. He nodded and took them, and my toll was paid.

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I could keep hunting behind his house.

I don’t know how many hundreds of days I’ve spent squirrel hunting

since then. I do know that head-shooting a limit with a rimfire rifle is difficult enough that I’m still quite proud when I can manage to pull it off.

I also know there’s no

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