best 22LR for woodchuck?

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Yeah! See how "Woodrow" is standing and looking? I have not yet planted the garden. Usually by this time, the garden would be coming up. Woodrow appears to have been checking on the garden's progress. Woodrow may have to go shopping else where.
 
Definately sub-sonic, or Super Colibris! I posted a target here from the Super Colibri (powderless) ammunition. The thread title is .22 Rimfire Specialty Ammunitions:

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=280418

It is pretty darned accurate, and it is as-quiet-as a Red Ryder BB gun! The problem still remains, given the suburbon setting, I am sure the police would visit me for shooting him.

Doc2005
 
a Jack Russel terrier

I, too, have a Jack . . . an amazingly loyal & immensely entertaining (read: life IS a tennis ball . . . or a squirrel) creature . . . 9 pounds of dog in what Sadie truly believes is a 150#, absolutely armor-plated body. On the plus side, I haven't seen a mouse since she matured . . . and she DOES retrieve doves!
 
gotta love my Jack

yup, he is an all around great hunter dog, he hunts squirrels, and now woodchucks, nearly killed my neighbors >50lb black lab when it cornered my dog in our garage. weighs 10 lb, but thinks he is 200lb's.

A few days ago he cornered a woodchuck in my neighbors lilac bushes, it must have weighed >10 lb's, so I grabbed my trusty 10/22 and since my area has had some problems with rabid raccoons and skunks, I just put the full clip (10 rounds) into him. Remington golden bullets (34 or 36 grain, 1,300FPS) from 10 feet, all shot from behind into his upper back/shoulder, and not one exited him! He immediately dragged it out, and started biting it and yelping like it was hurting him, but it wasn't even moving. Much to my surprise he started biting it in the back legs, body, and head and just broke every bone in its body in a few minutes. Boy I have never seen him any more proud than after he "killed" that woodchuck.

last night the woodchuck I was going to shoot came out, so I let the dog out, and much to my surprise ran the 30 yards, and almost caught the woodchuck! wouldn't have stood a chance against a 20lb woodchuck, but it sure was funny!
 
ok ok not quite 20lb, but certainly a little tubby, at first glance from 30 yards away, he looks like a beaver.
 
I will believe a 20lb woodchuck when I see it; as for 30lbs not unless it is living on Three Mile Island.
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I had one larger than that in my pasture. I used to saddle it and ride it to round up the cattle.

I had to quit, though -- it got sore-footed and the farrier couldn't figure out how to nail on the shoes.:p
 
Doc: thats what we call a Groundhog up here in canada :)

trueg50: from everything i have read. Rodents dont get rabies. (groundhogs, squerrels, rabbits etc)
 
I believe that Groundhogs are almost exclusively herbivors; and if there are any 30lbers our there I hope they are exclusively herbivors or deathly afraid of old, slow, fat men.
 
Check out the "smug" look on his miserable little face too! :neener: Give him a cigarette and offer him a blind fold. It's as though he knows he can't be shot.

I would estimate this guy to weigh in at about 8ish pounds, perhaps 10. He's good sized, but not the biggest I have ever seen. I did see one at the family farm 2 years back that had to have weighed in around 20ish pounds. He was so fat he could hardly walk...running was out of the question! Survival of the fittest, I am sure, has had its toll on him by now. :evil:

Doc2005
 
308win: groundhogs can get really big. ive seen some REALLY frickin fat ones. they look like inchworms when they run cuz of all the fat they have.
 
Generally, those with short barrels & youth-model stocks . . . most chucks I've seen have really short arms . . .
 
I would get CCI Velocitors. It is a 40 gr. Gold Dot HP bullet that flies at 1435fps. I would go with CCI Stingers as a second choice.
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That echos my advice if you choose to use a 22lr.

A few thoughts as I have shot quite a few with a 22 rifle. First, put a good scope on it and learn to shoot it well. Second, when the opportunity arises for a shot, do not take shots at running chucks. Shoot only for the head on the first shot. I always aimed for an eye or ear and if you are good enough, it drops them pretty much like a rock. Body shots almost always mean the groundhog runs into his den and probably dies a long slow death. Be a sportsman and only take good shots that present themselves to you.

A better choice is to pick up a centerfire rifle, scope it, shoot it, and you are good for as far as you can accurately place your shots in the chest or head area (upper torso). It is essentially about a 5-6" diameter target. Not a small target area for a good shooting rifle from a rest.
 
I just made my latest purchase of woodchuck/ground hog/target rounds...8K of Remington Tumderbolts. :what: View attachment 304654

well, there WERE 8K...my little one shoots them off quick. Imagine a kid going through 600 rounds in a day of shooting! I wish my dad had bought me that much ammo when I was a kid. As I see it, it's a small price to pay ( .99c per box ) to keep my little gal interested in shooting/hunting.
 
i've taken a couple from my mark II with plan old federal bulk pack.

these were close though, 10 yards and under and a quick controlled pair to the chuck's noggin allowed him to expire quickly and painlessly.

50-60 yards you could still make a headshot if you had a rest with no problem. i take blackbirds out to 70 with a rest more often than not. i'd just say use whatever your gun groups best, so you could get him right in the head.

that being said, remington bulk pack i think run a bit hotter. you guys like thunderbolts? i never had luck with them, but i used to shoot them cause they were 7.98 a brick by me. recently stores or is it remington? are trying to reposition them in the market and upped the price to 12.99 a brick. federal go for 9.97 and remington golden go for 10.48 winchester xpert split the two, but never shot very well for me.

anyone use american redbox? i picked up a brick of 400 for a deal but havent cracked em open yet.
 
The Thunderbolts are the most accurate that I have ever bought. It's every bit as good as the Remington Blue Box Target. :) The price is right too, a mere .99c for 50 rounds!
 
Yep another vote here for 22lr Velociters .

We have huge Jack Rabbits here is SE AZ ever bit as big as a woodchuck. One shot kills with the Velociters.

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