What do y’all prefer, .22 or shotgun (and of shotgun, what gauge?)

When I hunted skwurls,,,,.22lr or a .410, .20ga.

.22 rifle or .22 pistol

Browning A-bolt .22 with a 3x9x40 Leupold or a 20 Ga auto depending on the time of year and foliage.

22lr or .410 depending on time of year. .270 if they bark at me too long in the deer stand.

10/22, 4x scope, and CCI Minimag HP for eating.

Gone are my days for biting on lead shot or oyster pearls.

Depends on the time of year and what they are feeding on. It they are high in the hickories or poplars then a 12. oaks a 20 or 410. If they are on walnuts or the ground or I just feel like it I'll take a 22 with cci hollow points.

If I'm hunting hollers then a shotgun for sure. But hunting ridge tops I prefer a 22 more often unless I'm trying to stack them up in a hurry. Growing up my dad and I were pretty serious squirrel hunters. U bet we killed a few hundred a year on average.

Winchester 62A pump shooting shorts.

375 Winchester. I hate squirrels.

If you hate squirrels then use a CCI Stinger or Quickshok

Ithaca Model 49 single shot .22

TC single shot .22

Air rifle

Depends where. If i'm near houses or town, I'm not shooting a .22 in the air, so 12 gauge or 16 gauge shotgun for me, .410 in the neighborhood. I prefer larger shot sizes 4-5, most will pass through and there are less of them to pick out. For close shots with a shotgun do not aim directly at squirrel but instead just in front of the nose so that hits the head and does not blow them apart. .410 and 20 gauge will have a hard time reaching the tops of trees where they like to hang out, although it can be done with a tight choke.
Out at the club or at the NF I'm taking the .22. Nothing quit like sniping the little rodents right in the noggin from distance.

A 20-gauge when the leaves are on the trees.

Thompson-Center Classic .22 LR, scoped, for bare trees. T/C introduced it in 2000 and I like the traditional wood-metal.

Binoculars always to help find limb-clingers.

an old Sears single shot .22 shooting short hps. Has a old Unertl 4X scope on it and has killed 2.8 trillion skwerls in my lifetime. I refinished it 100 years ago, added a pad, rosewood grip cap and forend cap to it. Stock is very blond colored.

That was your first project after retirement, right?

Suppressed Ruger 96/22 with CCI SV

Franchi 28 gauge (I hunt with dogs and lots of times the squirrels are timbering when I shoot them).

Depends on the circumstances but a 410 is my go to...i do use a 22 mag and 12ga with #6 if money is involved