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MarkB_MI

MarkB_MI

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Last night I came home to find a woodchuck grazing in the garden. 80 yards from the front door to the garden, one shot from my 17 Fireball TC Contender rifle. 25 grain Berger bullet at 3800 fps left no exit wound. Instantly put me back in good graces with the wife. She lost all her Swiss chard, but the rest of the crops are OK.
 
Well done sir! The last one I dispatched took a 235 gr 35 cal FN at about 1700 fps right in the center of the chest. There's was a very definite exit wound!

How do you all use your chard? We've grown it on and off for years as more of an ornamental.
 
Brett, my wife uses the chard in soups and salads and cooks it up like spinach. Frankly, I don't care for the stuff and don't mind that Mrs. Woodchuck enjoyed a good last meal!
 
Last one I put down like that - 100 yards with a .240 Weatherby. Definite exit wound! tipped over like a bowling pin!
 
Got home last night and noticed tops nipped off of brocolli and corn, and strawberries noticeably thinner. Yep, goats got out again (and liberated the horses in the process). Wife wants to get more- I'm kinda thinking the other direction on this.
 
I like chard. Planted rainbow chard last year. Very decorative and tastes good too. I'll be planting for a fall crop soon.

Larry
 
Early this week I hit one with a 22 SR hard point. The varmint tipped and spun like a bowling pin and disappeared into my burn pile. O well, try again if the buzzards don't come first.
 
I used to hunt woodchucks with a WIN 270 using 110 grain hollow points. I stopped since the bullets tended to gut the chuck and was pretty messy.
 
Mark,

I have one right now that I'm trying to live trap. I'd love to get off a shot at him, but he's so sneaky I only see him very rarely and by the time I get my rifle he's gone.

He destroyed the green been plants that had just emerged in the garden.

Tom in TN
 
You guys are making me feel inadequate, I only use a .22LR. When the gun is not handy, I prefer "natural" elimination. The dogs enjoy it too.

They have gotten more than I have, but they get to hunt 12 hours a day. More than once I have had to pull them out of a hole by their rear feet when they get stuck.

Rick
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Since I do not have the time nor patience to sit and wait for them, using the nearest available firearm is the only option when they appear. Bagged two with a .357 revolver, one with a .380 (but I did fire 4 times), one with a 30-30 (clean and neat exit wound of the same size as the entry). Four with shotgun out of my bedroom window plus others over the years.
 
Few year back a neighbor had some problems with them, got a few and decided to make use of them-- old country Pole and German recipes for rabbit, etc worked on main part of body, hides got tanned with fur on using a mink trap and skin method of salt, dry, light oil and some kind of tanning stuff left over from his buckskin coat project. His daughter got warm "chuck" cap for winter, couple others sold at a rendevous and the "brunswick stew" had requests for seconds. Point here is that most of you guys are wasting a possible barbecue entry with a ear warmer bonus. <--Teasing Alert! RN
 
the tanning post reminded me of when dad was a kid, he said they tanned the groundhog hides for shoe laces, said you couldn't wear them out
 
Hi
Never needed to have goats here to gain experience, my friends have had them and I've seen enough of theirs, to know the best thing to do with them is "Inject lead in their ear". Your thinking is not flawed at any point in this program!
Regards Robert
 
Rick,

I hunt with my dogs on a fairly regular basis. I have Jack Russell Terriers. We use locating collars so we can locate the dogs below ground. If they don't bolt it our drag it, we dig the dogs out. Heck of a lot of fun to hear the baying going on below ground. You never know if you're going to get a groundhog, opossum, raccoon or something more exciting.
 
You are right, these guys are a lot of fun. They came out with a skunk last summer. I think when it sprayed them, it made the dogs even more determined. After a few baths with tomato juice, they were ready to go again.
 
Rick

When i was a kid, we had a pair of male dachshunds that would tear up a adult groundhog. When the groundhog would turn at one dog, the other would attack from the rear.
 
(quoted from post at 09:18:58 06/29/13) Since I do not have the time nor patience to sit and wait for them, using the nearest available firearm is the only option when they appear. Bagged two with a .357 revolver, one with a .380 (but I did fire 4 times), one with a 30-30 (clean and neat exit wound of the same size as the entry). Four with shotgun out of my bedroom window plus others over the years.
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Hey BD, I got 2 coyotes with a 380 once. One of those "right place at the right time" deals. I like my little 380, just wish the brass didn't go flying so far since I reload.
 
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