dh1633pm
Contributing Member
We took out dogs in the truck to a walking trail one day and we saw some chucks. They came after the dogs. Mine are not wood chuck killers like Sarge. It scared the heck out of them. They will charge you.
Climbing trees gives them more wood to chuck.I don't go looking for woodchucks but I've taken 3 this year and will probably get a few more before summer is done. Shot the first one in my pasture using an AR-15. Took the other two in my neighbor's yard using an M&P 15-22. They burrow under her outbuildings and I get rid of them for her as she is getting up in years and doesn't shoot too well anymore.
Last year, I shot one at my neighbor's place....it was up in a tree. Is that very common to find them in a tree?
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I must be doing it wrong! I have been trying the across the field shots! Time to get out the bow I guess. lolOh i would love to take credit for that shot...but it was actually #1 son with my LCP
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Been there, done that, used about a 8# rock that was handy, took a couple of thumps but took care of it. They look pretty nasty when they start gnashing their teeth together.I squared off with that groundhog in the freshly tilled earth.
When i turned 18 I bought my first rifle, a Remington 700 ADL in .243 Win. I was already handloading for a couple other guns since I was 15, so that is what I did for the .243. I was a farm boy and we had groundhogs plenty along with every other farmer in the area. My first year I killed 173 from 20 yards to 470 yards with that gun. I would stop at all the neighbors farms and ask permission to hunt their bean fields and hay fields for ground hogs. The next year I only was able to kill about 80 because I had thinned them out so much. I still have my .243, and it has never had a factory shell through it to this day 30 some years later.
I cleaned out a lot of barns that had pigeons too with my 20 gauge shotgun. Farmers liked to see me coming to thin out the vermin.
I've seen a chuck climb an apple tree that was on an angle, not vertical. It "thought" it was safe there. Ha ha.Climbing trees gives them more wood to chuck.