Ground hog hunting. Who else enjoys it?

[Dark Cloud]

We use to hunt them with dogs, dogs would hole ,we’d dig em out .

 

[barney]

We use to hunt them with dogs, dogs would hole ,we’d dig em out .

I used to do a lot of that. GREAT exercise!

 

[bdbrown66]

Man, I grew up in Ohio and we used to have a lot of fun hunting 'hogs back in the 70's and 80's. Like some of you, I used a 788 22-250, and it put a hurt on them. Haven't had the opportunity to do that in years.

 

[beauhunter41031]

Opportunity struck

 

[Henry W Sulllivan jr.]

I used to do a lot of that. GREAT exercise!

I love it. Just caught 4 in large cage traps using carrots. Got at least that many to go. They have taken over this mans barn or I would hunt them. Carrots do the trick as bait. I love coyote hunting hunting. Just started this year learning how to call them, get the stand right and that is fun.

 

[Semp]

Posted this in the .22 mag thread. Small one moved in to MY territory. lol. He had to go.

 

[KY_Fried]

About 20 years ago or so you all but stopped seeing groundhogs around here. A lot of people blamed it on yotes and I bought into that until they started coming back in droves a few years ago. There's more yotes then ever yet I can't drive past an old barn or culvert without seeing a groundhog so they couldn't have been the reason.
I've never intentionally hunted them before but I've shot several.

 

[Kylongrifle32]

On the farms I have hunted for 30 years you will see plenty of ground hog around the barns and farm lots close to the houses or roads. Get back into the fields even fields that have large rock piles from years of clearing and they are few and far between.

 

[Semp]

I know its not trapping season but this little bastard was starting to excavate my backyard retaining wall. That is a no go for me. That's two I've eliminated and hope it is the last.

 

[beauhunter41031]

She didn’t make it home

 

[Little FR]

.223 77gr GMM 250 yards
A17 HM2

350 Legend 175yds
204 Ruger

and I may have photos of most of the other 64 I acquired this year.

 

[Little FR]

Just saw a groundhog out, it’s 34 degrees. Was 22 or so last night. Coldest I can recall ever seeing one out and about. He must have procrastinated getting some winter weight on.

 

[Kylongrifle32]

I have seen several out this week also driving from hunting spots to home.

I shot one two years ago in December with snow on the ground. I was coming out of the woods behind my house from bow hunting. Topped the hill and saw him next to the barn where the snow had melted out about 5 feet. Dropped my bow and back off down the hill. Walked around the hill side to the house. Grabbed my Contender and after him I went. Got to a hay bale about 65 yards from him and sent him into permanent hibernation.

 

[Little FR]

Whew!!! It’s the season ya’ll!!!!!

My daughter was getting worried I had killed them all… honestly I was too.

 

[xbokilla]

Get a silencer and come on over to Lexington, the groundhog capital of the world.