[Ron Wood]

When they flatten out like that, if you shoot through the tree bark just under them and in back of their front legs it stops their heart, or at least stuns them, and knocks them out of the tree. Of course if the limb is too high, you can't get enough of a crossing shot to do it. It is more of a trick shot than practical. I had an uncle that could do it, but when I tried it all I did was make the squirrel mad.