Wood Chuck is back and I'm mad

old · Aug 9, 2012

Well went out to check eggs and noticed one of the pumpkin did not look right. Went and check it and sure enough it had a big hole ate in the side of it and the hole that I had clogged up a couple weeks ago was open again. Closed up the hole again and guess I'll have to keep a better watch or I'll loose more pumpkins to it. Found a 2nd one that had a bit ate out of it but can still be salvaged. My yet go and barrow trip for conservation but then what to bait it with since the garden is there it maybe hard to get to go in a trap

larry@stinescorner · Aug 9, 2012

they like canteloupe,try a piece of that in the trap. Everytime I set the have a heart trap my wife springs it,says she does not to hurt the animals,what can I do?

Tony in Mass. · Aug 9, 2012

Apparently... he likes pumpkin

davediehl@hotmail.com · Aug 9, 2012

Buy a can of whole kernel corn and dump half of it in the trap. They sure do like it! I'd bet your garden will be the last of his worries.

onefarmer · Aug 9, 2012

Don't you have an old lawnmower that burns some oil around? Direct the exhaust down the hole while he's home and run a tank of fuel thru it. I did that under my garage, using my 96 F250 PS. I know I got one and no others have moved back in yet. Been several years.

old · Aug 9, 2012

This hole is under my house so I do not want to worry about the smell in the house. I know I have taken out at least 2 so far but guess there is more coming in and taking there place.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2012

Old, now that the nights are cooler you set out there in a lounge chair with your gun in your lap and what for 'em.

onefarmer · Aug 9, 2012

If you can get to the hole, cover it up and no smell, but take care not to gas yourself.

old · Aug 9, 2012

Been doing a walk around about once an hour till midnight every night and been getting a few armadillos and coons etc but not seeing any wood chucks. I know I got to wood chucks so far but this one seems to move around from hole to hole and seems to know where not to be when I am out side.

Ron Anderson · Aug 9, 2012

Put some flybait in a melon by the hole.

Mark-Mi · Aug 9, 2012

Close the hole with a Conibear 220.

DownSouth · Aug 9, 2012

Put one of these in front of the hole. If you miss him the first night, he should be easier to find since he won't be able to move as fast on 3 legs (you know, a little closer to your speed!).

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2012

Wood chuck is back and I"m mad. Ell old, Wood chuck might not be too happy with you either. lol. Any way you can sit on the TRACTOR when you shoot at em?

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2012

Tell her we have to get rid of the critters or the snakes will start comeing around to get the critters.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2012

Tell her we have to get rid of the critters or the snakes will start comeing around to get the critters.

Rich_WI · Aug 9, 2012

(quoted from post at 18:12:08 08/09/12) Close the hole with a Conibear 220.

Thats what I do, although I think mine is a conibear 280. I put 3 cement blocks around the hole so there is only one way to go, through my trap.

John B. · Aug 9, 2012

lay an old bath towel in the hole and pour gasoline on it. The fumes will settle in the hole and kill what ever is in there. no need to lite it or close up the hole.

old · Aug 9, 2012

Can't use traps like that due to the barn cats and other such things like the dogs. Never had theses problem till this year and have been here for 32 years. Guess the dry hot weather has them looking for food where they should not be looking

old · Aug 9, 2012

Way way to close to the house to even think about that. The hole goes right under the room I am in right now and I do not want to have some odd thing happen to have this room blow up or go up in flames

da.bees · Aug 9, 2012

Give me your address and I will send you some fire ants. They will keep them from standing still long enough to eat a hole in any thing.

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

I'm sure many on YT may have trapped in back in the day, was common here too but those darn things are MEAN, I just caught a woodchuck in one, on Sunday, much rather shoot them, have them die quickly and humanely, pest or no pest.

I had a similar problem here and it finally p%ssed me off, so I went and set one of these, staked it off, the next day, mid-day, caught him, checked on it and he was barely alive, flies on him, a very cruel, slow painful death, these traps are a miserable rotten way to dispatch a critter,no way I'd ever run trap lines using foot traps, I ain't no green tree hugging activist, I just believe you don't have to make an animal suffer for just trying to survive with one of these.

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

Might seem odd, I'd just pour 1/2 gallon of gasoline down the hole, as far as I could get it, say with a funnel/hose inserted, but if you have a well or soil considerations, maybe you could soak something that contains the gasoline, and place in there in a small bowl or cup, you need to get the fumes concentrated and eminating/evaporating from that gasoline, and then place a lid on that hole, I did that to 3 holes near my house and they are done, been well over a month, almost 6 weeks now I think, no signs of any activity in those dens, Again might seem odd, but it worked, now just some straggler 'chucks coming in from the surrounding land, been so darned dry, they really are voracious grazers and seem to find what we grow, they've been around here for years and never really persisted on getting past barricades I have on vegetable plants

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

Well cancel that Rich, I just suggested the same thing and read this,I'd not do that in a place like that either, you'll definitely have to trap him ot get him, live trap or miserable leg trap like below, rock in a hard place, hate those leg traps, but last resort, you gotta. I just borrowed a big ole havaheart, so I am going to set that, then at least I can dispatch quickly or take him to the other end of the property, all fields anyway.

I was overun with them and kind of ignored the task at hand because I hate doing it, but they finally ticked me off and without hesitation, nailed 4 of them as of late, I missed another with .22 cause I switched back to LR after using SR on chipmunks, can't hit the side of a barn with LR now, LOL gonna have to set up some targets and dial in again !

jackinok · Aug 10, 2012

tried a snare? easy to make and set,can be made to either kill or not.no bait to attract other critters,or your dogs and cats. plans online.preferred method of trapping where other animals are involved lots of times. all gov trappers here use snares( if their not using cyanide guns).

randallinMo · Aug 10, 2012

I"d probably start by not telling her I had set the trap.

I know what you mean. I trapped a dang old possum in my chicken yard. The wife comes along and turns it loose before I had chance to shoot the nasty thing. 'Said, "didn't you see all those babies she had"? Women............

Eldo case · Aug 10, 2012

Not too humane, but get you a board that will fit into the hole and nail you some treble hooks on it. Large ones are best. Then put board in hole with the hook end up so he can come out but when he goes back he will impale himself on the hooks and you have him.

jackinok · Aug 10, 2012

properly set,the right size trap,offset or not offset,all these factors and more come into play.Properly used they are just what they say a leg hold trap and they hold an animal only. One huge factor with ANY trap,is the heat,ive seen just as many animals die of stress in a box trap as a leghold. Most humane in my book is the conibear simply because it doesnt allow the animal to suffer. One big factor with a leghold is where it catches the animal.Caught up high on the shoulder will cause far more pain and stress than a proper catch just above the foot. the trouble is most folks buy the largest trap they can find thinking it will catch more or can be used for more types of animals,far better use the smallest trap you can,and if you have a animal that can pull loose double spring or four coil it. A leg hold trap doesnt have to cause excessive pain and suffering ,but it requires a little more thought and stuff than simply setting a box trap in the yard. Any trap that breaks a leg is way wrong.some animals will chew off a leg,such as a beaver,but a good beaver set will drown the animal quickly.Like i say, theres nothing wrong with a leghold trap,and a good set is quite humane , allowing a animal access to shade and things, but they require a certain amount of thinking,skill , and knowledge of the animal your after that most folks dont have these days.They have some mistaken belief that a box trap is more humane but imporoperly set they can be far worse.

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

Would you say this is appropriate size? Upon examination, no broken bone could be felt, but it just seems about as rotten of a device, and it was humid, though overcast heat may have done him in along with the trauma to the leg.

Live trap can be place in the shade, you have to find or watch the trails they use, heat would not be an issue when the live trap is shaded.

This woodchuck could not be stopped with old refrigerator shelving, hardware cloth, chicken wire around the potted plant, covered with blackberry branches with nice sharp barbs on it, I knew exactly where he was going to step and place the trap in that particular spot, resulting in the below:

jackinok · Aug 10, 2012

way too big of a trap. but of course it got him, id say if i were guessing thats a 23/4 or no 3 trap. if you have to do it again,try a double springed 1 or a 1 1/2. same results either way,but i think youll see a difference.ive released many a animal unharmed out of a leghold trap. yes you can put a cage trap in the shade,trouble is lots of folks dont,99% of folks just set it where they see the animal period.dont even give it a thought.not criticizing you just trying to tell you how to make it a little better on the animal. one thing i dont see here that would have helped that particular one is about four feet of double swiveled chain.they wont fight as bad if they can move some.but you caught him thats the main thing.

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

I would use these having read what you posted, sized appropriately, as a leg hold, makes sense, too big, that is really mean, but yes, got the one that would stop at no barricade to de-foliate my plants. I just take a hardline stance on some things in life, such as this, I try to live with them as best can be done, and if I have to get involved, I do the best I can humanely given the circumstances, I mean these guys made dangerous dens where I could break a leg or ankle, they dug up around the porch foundation, no harm but the piles of gravel and rocks I can do without, so I decided it was time to reduce the population to zero within the vicinity of my house and yard. He was a tricky one, grazed him, was shooting high, you can barely see the area on his hide, he had a fresh surface wound, this guy was relentless.

This trap I've had since I was a kid, has a "V" on the circle trigger the animal steps on to release the jaws,(must be a Victor). I probably pulled it up somewhere back then, trapping used to be common around here. I think I have a conibear trap, not sure of the size though, and if its still around here.

You may be right I will bet this trap is 3" or so, at this point I think I've got them under control, and we are getting an all day soaker first since May, that ought to bring up some forage for them, so hopefully I do not have any more problems, will set that live trap though, one last renegade has been coming up from the adjacent land.

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