Ground Hogs

[Dozernut]

Anybody else having trouble with ground hogs? The last two weeks I have sent 6 of the critters on a vacation to heck. They sure are making a comeback in my neck of the woods. Just curious if anyone else was having troubles with them.

They were thinned out in the 60's and 70's. The surrounding counties had bounties out on them and almost every high school boy had a .22 rifle behind the seat of his truck or car so they could shoot at the varmints. They would save up the tails or ears, each county demanded different types of proof. They would then turn them in on so they could have gas money to run around on Friday and Saturday with their girls.

A .17 HMR with a head shot does a fine job eliminating them. The wife is upset with them, they have trimmed up the garden very well and have eaten most of her flowers. The orders were passed down and she said she would buy all the ammo I needed to solve the problem. Recon I need slow this problem down. A happy wife makes a happy life.

 

[BackRoad]

I've got a couple with bounties on their heads...

 

[oosik]

When we moved here we had several ground hogs. I turned my son loose with a 22. With a world of patience - he had eliminated them in a little under two months.

They have never come back.

 

[FPGT72]

I have them as well, and are really tearing things up. I only have one left and he has gone to ground. I know he is still around as the tunnels keep opening back up, but dog if I can find him. The others are pretty easy to take care of, but this one went to commando school or something.

My real issue is Voles and Moles, I never see those darn things, and they are turning everything into a moon scape. I have little mounds everywhere.

 

[oosik]

My big nemesis now - pocket gophers. A couple areas already look like practice areas for the Army's Mobile Artillery. Most everything I've tried works. But for every one "put down" - two more come out of the bush to take his place.

 

[LHF2019]

It never ends. If time I could rack up a hundred most likely.

Last nights kill

Few others this year.

 

[dodge man]

They’ve made a comeback here in western around my house this year also, along with chipmunks. I won a 17 HMR in a raffle a few months ago and my 29 year old son is pretty deadly with it.

 

[Oaktree]

I have them as well, and are really tearing things up. I only have one left and he has gone to ground. I know he is still around as the tunnels keep opening back up, but dog if I can find him. The others are pretty easy to take care of, but this one went to commando school or something.

My real issue is Voles and Moles, I never see those darn things, and they are turning everything into a moon scape. I have little mounds everywhere.

We call them woodchucks here. Had a problem with them maybe 10-12 years ago, but once I got rid of them they haven't been back. (knock knock).
Yeah, moles. Got plenty of them here. Nothing seems to work on them, cats won't touch 'em. We do try to keep Japanese beetles under control as much as possible, from what I understand the JB grubs are what moles eat. That too is a constant battle.

 

[Jstpssng]

My father had a lifelong war on them. It got a lot harder when the city limits were moved and he could no longer shoot them. Then he live trapped and relocated them for somebody else to deal with.
When he passed away in 2017 I told my mother not to worry about them, she didn't have a garden for them to bother.

Fast forward 7 years, they are everywhere. Last month she had somebody come in and try to remove the woodchucks living under her porch stairs but the animals won. I've got some nice 13/4 coilsprings I'll have to put out, although I'm not sure what to do with a POed chuck that I can't shoot.

Too bad they don't make a subsonic .22 round...

 

[5030]

Good do eat so long as you know how to cook them..... Kind of like squirrels.