Some serious groundhog hunting going down.
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victocast
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I have a serious problem with ground hogs. They are digging underneath my shop concrete floor. I've put giant rocks by the opening and they move them, how do u catch them they seem to be very smart animals.
Do you eat the younger ones or cut any for line bait, coyotes or catfish / turtles?
I've worked with a few guys here and there that wanted young ones to eat and there was a woman a few doors down that said her Mom made a real good oven baked groundhog. Her husband looked at me and rolled his eyes. Haha
I've never tried it.
I've worked with a few guys here and there that wanted young ones to eat and there was a woman a few doors down that said her Mom made a real good oven baked groundhog. Her husband looked at me and rolled his eyes. Haha
I've never tried it.
Barrelnut
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Great shooting and pics. Cool stuff.
Great shooting and great pictures. I hunted chucks for 50 + years with some breaks when I was in the Corps and living in HI.
Do a lot of the "new to the sport" chuck or PD hunters actually go out into the fields to pick up their kills? When we shot the chucks & PDs, we knew we hit them by the umph & impact especially through a scope shooting a .204! The bullet hit made the unmistakable sound and the chuck/PD dropped. When shooting slowed down in one field we went to another field for more chucks. Never wasted time driving or walking to pick up kills (once you walked/drove around you scared everything into their holes in that field) we just moved on. We knew what we got. I just may be old school .I may take a picture of a nice Buck, Bear, Moose, Elk, Turkey, Bobcat, and even a nice Coyote (maybe a hog or two if you never shot one or they are BIG they make great pictures & stories), but never took a picture blown/ripped in half/up PDs or chucks. I have taken pictures of squirrels and posted on this site, but they were Monkey & Fox Squirrels which most people have not ever seen in the US. Only post because these were for mounts and mount worthy - not damaged. I also have taken numerous pictures of the landscape/terrain of hunting or target shooting areas that I have been at.
By all means I am not knocking everyone that takes picture of chuck & PDs, even though it seems like I am. If it wasn't for pictures that are posted of Chuck & PDs a lot of hunters would never know what they look like or live vicariously through other hunters.
I really like ALL the stories on all these PD and Chuck hunts from this forum. You guys ROCK. Wish I was in your shoes at the hunts being described. Brings back a lot of memories
I got one for y'all. A chuck taken in NE PA. he was a Tri Color (grey, black, orange). Didn't take a picture -had him mounted! One of my best hunts with a man that was like my dad. Knew him for 54 years an had uncountable chuck, deer, moose hunts and countless fishing trips. No money or anything can compare with friendship hunting and fishing trips.
Do a lot of the "new to the sport" chuck or PD hunters actually go out into the fields to pick up their kills? When we shot the chucks & PDs, we knew we hit them by the umph & impact especially through a scope shooting a .204! The bullet hit made the unmistakable sound and the chuck/PD dropped. When shooting slowed down in one field we went to another field for more chucks. Never wasted time driving or walking to pick up kills (once you walked/drove around you scared everything into their holes in that field) we just moved on. We knew what we got. I just may be old school .I may take a picture of a nice Buck, Bear, Moose, Elk, Turkey, Bobcat, and even a nice Coyote (maybe a hog or two if you never shot one or they are BIG they make great pictures & stories), but never took a picture blown/ripped in half/up PDs or chucks. I have taken pictures of squirrels and posted on this site, but they were Monkey & Fox Squirrels which most people have not ever seen in the US. Only post because these were for mounts and mount worthy - not damaged. I also have taken numerous pictures of the landscape/terrain of hunting or target shooting areas that I have been at.
By all means I am not knocking everyone that takes picture of chuck & PDs, even though it seems like I am. If it wasn't for pictures that are posted of Chuck & PDs a lot of hunters would never know what they look like or live vicariously through other hunters.
I really like ALL the stories on all these PD and Chuck hunts from this forum. You guys ROCK. Wish I was in your shoes at the hunts being described. Brings back a lot of memories
I got one for y'all. A chuck taken in NE PA. he was a Tri Color (grey, black, orange). Didn't take a picture -had him mounted! One of my best hunts with a man that was like my dad. Knew him for 54 years an had uncountable chuck, deer, moose hunts and countless fishing trips. No money or anything can compare with friendship hunting and fishing trips.
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Barrelnut
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Here's what a California ground squirrel looks like when it gets whacked with a 55 gr. Varmageddon at 240 yards. I agree, it's not much to look at! 
I don't retrieve my kills till I move on, all dead ones are tacked to trees behind my house, and quite a few coyotes get whacked , especially now.
Bait for coyotes .
Great bait for yotes !!!!! A lot of the fields I have hunted we only stay on designated farmer roads, don't want to get stuck or **** the farmer off driving all through their fields and crops.
Thanks for sharing
Throat shot 112 yards, end of day pic not bad,best day so far 11, 3 not recovered 2 shot across Mohican river and 1 fell down a 4 foot stovepipe in ground but very dead. watching one at about 135 yards edge of bean field brown spot, 17 WSM at 75 yards nice entrance and exit, 25 grain. Big sow and baby shot together, at 145 yards. This one is the one that got closest to his hole before succumbing to a 17 WSM 20 grain in the back end ,as he was facing away from me with his big round butt. This is the only one I missed at 165 yards due to the wind,I compensated and dropped him right in his hole, with a hole in his head. I'm in love with the 17 WSM deadly out to 200 yards , plus.
