Single Six versus ground hog

Nice looking revolver CraigC as always. You have good taste.

Good job CraigC!
Just curious - is that an average size groundhog? We don't have them around here.

Good shooting CraigC.

Here in east Tennessee, we have a couple mature ground hogs around our place that are a bit bigger than CraigC's. They do not have any predators and food is plenty.

I really need to spend some time to put them out of my misery.

Craig,

Glad to see your Rugers have the correct number of screws in the frame. (smile)

Dave

Very nice e gun and beautiful grips. The go well with the dead critter lol.

Nice work.
.22magnum is excellent groundhog medicine!
That's a good looking SS.
Something different about the front sight.....?

I have dispatched three varmints since Sunday afternoon.
Two opossum(s) and a groundhog.
(I think mrs is baiting them with her garden.)

CraigC said:

We don't get a lot of ground hogs on this end of the state but when we do, I start looking for opportunities to smack `em. It happened this afternoon with this little bugger. Last year I got two Single Sixes from the estate of the late Terry Murbach (member Wil Terry) and had them fitted with fancy walnut. I decided to use the 5½" gun as a .22Mag and had it ready to go. About the only thing that was ready to go when I opened the back door of my shop and saw this dude browsing around. At 35yds the 40gr Winchester JHP did the job. This 1967 model looks good with a dead critter.

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Looks like you had some good eating there ... the smaller , younger ones taste much better !!!

Here in East TN ... thats a small fry...

Nice shooting. I miss PA groundhog hunting.

I miss NY groundhog hunting. In my teens and 20s their dens were out in the hayfields and relatively easy to find. Used to love wandering the fields with a 22-250 trying to pick off a few just before dusk.

Now, with the return of the coyotes they make their homes in the brush, and are much harder to find. Doesn't help either that my 'hunting grounds' have changed hands and are now built up.

We don't have ground hogs here in Tx so I have never seen one in person. I didn't know you could eat them either but heck why not? You can eat everything else it seems.

I think its cool that you got a couple of guns that belonged to Terry Murbach. He was my favorite gunwriter. I mentioned that to Jeff Quinn and the next thing I know I get an email from Terry Murbach!!! What a great surprise. He even invited me up to visit in SD. In hindsight I wish I would have went. We traded emails for several years and I had them all in a file until I stupidly deleted them by accident. But what a great guy he was to talk to. And funny too. I was really sad to hear he had passed away. His emails pretty much came to a stop a few months before he passed so I suspected something was up.

CraigC said:

I have a definite weakness/preference for Old Models. Here's the pair.

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And I nice red fox I took several years ago with my first OMSS. Figure I have 30,000rds through this one.

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I'm no expert but I killed a gray fox 37 years ago that looked exactly like your fox iirc.

Here is a pic of a grey fox that I googled up to compare...

I have eaten ground hog. Cooked him in the crock pot like a roast. They are quite tasty!

Craig, what's your recipe?

Tony_the_tiger said:

Craig, what's your recipe?

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Check your appetite at the door is the first instruction.

Craig,

I don't know why you insist on putting beautiful stocks on those old Rugers. Makes the rest of us feel like we should be getting to know a custom stock maker. (LOL)

Dave

Pretty gun.....the Ground hog not so much. Had one living under the cabin for a while. Moved in this spring and without folks around all the time it got pretty brave. Sittin' on the deck one night before dark, it came running across the yard towards us. A quick shout got it to stop long enough for me to get the 1911 outta the shoulder holster. Then I had to take it up on the hill and bury it. Few days later the vultures were circling. They musta been able to smell it below the ground. Last I looked, nuttin' had dug it up.

Good shootin'.

JTHunter said:

"35 yards"? Nice shooting !
Those "not so little" peckerwoods are digging the rocks out from under the concrete floor of my pole barn but I haven't been able to nab the bugger. From what I've seen, that one is about half the size of my nemesis. There are corn fields behind me, wild grape vines all over the woods, grassy fields, etc., so these suckers can GROW. I have tried a live animal trap with peanut butter on bread, apples, pears, carrots, lettuce, cabbage, etc., and this furball won't take any of it !

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I eradicated a big den a few years ago using tomatoes. They wouldn’t take the bait on anything else, but they could not resist a fresh tomato.

WestKentucky said:

I eradicated a big den a few years ago using tomatoes. They wouldn’t take the bait on anything else, but they could not resist a fresh tomato.

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I will try that. We have one that recently took up residence under our maintenance shop but unfortunately shooting a gun of any kind is frowned upon at this location currently.

Great guns and excellent shooting to you all who posted pictures.