I have an "Adult" sized Daisy Red Ryder ("you'll shoot yer eye out") that I picked up recently. Use it for plinking when I take the dog for a walk in our back woods before work. 280 fps (chronographed by me) and not squirrel medicine for killing but it sure would annoy them. Certainly accurate enough and likely lethal up close. A lot of fun. I put a "red dot" front sight from a Daisy 105 on it.
Never really a good idea to shoot anything you don't intend to kill. There is a reason it is #2 in "The Rules". Even from that Red Ryder the BBs will penetrate squirrel hide. Better to kill them than have them crawl off and die of infection.
I also have a Benjamin break-barrel w/Mantis AO air-rifle scope and that shoots .177 pellets to 1,100 fps (a hair shy of the "1,250fps" claimed).
If a squirrel was bothering me that's where I'd go.
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