O/T Too good not to tell.......

This is too good a story not to tell.

My wife and I have good friends who live in a small town about 20 miles north of here. In the interest of diplomacy, I'll call them Joe and Mary.

One evening a week or so ago, their neighbor lady called and told them there was a ground hog in their yard. Joe grabbed his shotgun and ran out of the house. The ground hog took one look at Joe and ran across the street into a trailer park. So here's Joe running through the trailer park with his 12 guage chasing a ground hog. (You can do this in a small town in Nebraska. People assume you know what you're doing even if it doesn't look like it.) Anyway, the ground hog got away, and Joe went home to eat supper.

After they'd eaten, Mary took the trash out and encountered the ground hog on their lawn. This time, the ground hog ran into their garage. A rather large detached garage, I might add. Mary simply closed the garage door and called for Joe. Joe went into the garage with his shotgun--and couldn't find the ground hog. About that time, Joe and Mary's daughter and son-in-law showed up. All four of them created enough commotion in the garage that the ground hog spooked from his hiding place and ran under the back of Mary's car. Whereupon Joe fired under the back of the car with the 12 guage. And missed the ground hog. While Mary was standing there with visions of all four of her tires going flat, the ground hog ran out into the open in front of the car and Joe nailed it with a second, but well placed, shot.

Apparently, everything survived intact except the ground hog.

Kinda reminds me of the time-----.......On second thought, I'll leave that one alone.

That was pretty good!

Sounds like northern WI, too!

missed, mmmmm .... no inlaws in the garage you say .. darn.. . . .. .. ..Motherinlaw? .. . .

Thats pretty good. I could see that happening around my neck of the woods too. Kinda reminds me of the story about the sheriff chasing skunks up main street in Loup City.

years ago we had an old farmer lived down the road, his farm was up against a subdivision of houses. he went out one evening to do chores, steers, hogs ect. got half way to the steer shed, ground hog started chasing him. he hot foots to the barn and shuts the door and feeds all the live stock. comes out of the barn, dang ground hog was there, chased him again. he figgured it had rabies, so he run up to the house and gets the shot gun. bang! dead ground hog, gets a shovel from the tool shed and goes out and burys the ground hog, comes walking back to the tool shed with the shovel, lady pulls in the driveway with a station wagon full of kids. "have you seen our pet ground hog?" she says. raymond says to her....nope, cant say i have!!!!!

Would that have been Sheriff Kaminski? Or one of the later ones. I rememeber him shooting one of my aunt's neighbors dog in some back alley. The lady asked him, "Why did you shoot my dog?" Sheriff says, "He looked kind of sickly and skinny." Lady says, "You look kind of sickly and skinny too."

Naw it was a later one. Happened about 5-10 years ago if I remember right. I've heard stories about him as well though.

Reminds me of the time I saw my brother running across the yard with a BB gun chasing a squirrel and yelling "stick 'em up".

Now thats to funny. My cartune bubble pictures him with a coon skin cap too.

Hogs around here are smart. You don't get to chasing them 'round here - if you do, you're plain wasting your time - they'll either run in their holes, or outwit you and hide elsewhere.

You have to be very distant with these guerillas, and have a scope on a .22 longbarrel. As soon as you fire, you must hit them or else you won't see them for days, they're busy coordinating other evasive strategies.

My dad told me this story. A long time ago my great great uncle decided to do some target shooting using the barn door as a target. He later went to get his car and when he opened the barn doors to get it out, he found the radiator full of holes.

Hey! I resemble that! I went to an auction & bought a air pistol BB's had to try it out, after all boys will be boys hit that rain guage dead center. Story beat me to town 65yr old boy!

A guy I worked with years ago chased a ground hog into his garage,closed the door and went and loaded his 22 rifle. The hog was in the back of the garage in just the right spot that when he missed, the slug ricocheted and hit the rear tire of his Allis Chalmers G and it slowly deflated as did his ego!!

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Interestsing stories.. lol

we had a groundhog run himself into my truck while it was parked. I was shooting at him missed the first shot scared him enough to commit suicide on my tire.