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Groundhogs

Started by frank bullitt, April 11, 2009, 11:46:00 PM

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Boone the Hunter

make shure you check regs. i got in trouble one time thinking there were know rules, because there big smelly rodents, here in MI you need to have a small game license. I usually find them around buildings on the edge of town, if you drive around till you see one, then ask permission most people will let you go after them with a bow.
Love the Lord, love your wife and kids, work hard, hunt harder

MikeW

QuoteDid I miss any?
Marmot, Rock Chuck & Target
   :D
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

frank bullitt

JC, I'm hoping to get the presure cooker out! B. Glass, chucks and carp, your pulling at my heart, no bowstrings. Bowfishing is one of my favs. Anyone shoot suckers? It's about time for the run! Great things in late April! Rooms, Turkeys, Suckers, Spring in general etc. etc. oh and my birthday, and not in that order!

Bullet_Bob

String is great tx. But I'm waiting on a new bow a Black Swan Hybrid. (if it ever gets here lol)
"Quit, don't quit? Noodles, don't noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present." - Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)

Col

C'mon over.  I've smartened-up the ones that're left.  Neighbors cheer when they hear my 'whoop!' (they like their hydrangeas and nasturtiums, I like my vegetable garden--so do the 'hogs).
Shooting with feeling since 1976 & luvin' every minute of it.

Thanks Dad!

Frank Warnke

It's finally feeling like spring here is SE PA.  Saw some hogs last weekend digging up some of our fields.  Need to get out soon and do something about it.  

Here is one from last year.

 

frank bullitt

Frank , that's what I want to see! Thank you! Nice looking bow too. What make, like that riser!
 Going out in a liitle to do some scoutin for my son's youth hunt. Maybe find some rooms and do some stumping or shoot some ground squirrels.
  Keep the photos coming guys and gals. And good shootin to all, Steve

Dave Bowers

Me and my buddy went out yesterday and had a good day. My friend stuck a nice ground hog, but wrestled around and drug his arrow done its hole. We tried to dig him out, but just could find him.
I was able to put a great stalk on a nice whistle pig from about 150 yards. I got well within bow range; ten yards actually. But my shot was a touch too high and I shot over him.

Here's a pic of one I got last year with my new bow.


Recurve50 LBS

They all moved into suburbia New Jersey.   :biglaugh:
Larry W.

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frank bullitt

Sweet, Dave thanks for the pic! Recurve 50 that is true around here, they have adapted to the city, Highway right-aways and ditches. I see one hog sitting on a culvert top waving to traffic at the edge of town, all the time. Drive By? Keep the pics coming, Steve

blind one

We have 6 of them in our backyard. We have railroad tracks behind the house and they have their tunnels all over back there. The wife and I sit out back and watch them all the time. Our son wont let me shoot them because he was born on groundhog day. I'll get somes pictures next time they are out there.Its only 40 yards to where they come out......Roy
"To die is nothing. One is here, One is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'"...

frank bullitt

Wow, can't believe it's been over 5 years since I posted this topic!

Guess who's eating 'hog!   :D

Slickhead

I see a lot in Ohio
dont hunt them anymore. Use to with a gun, but now I let them be.
Slickhead

Red Beastmaster

frank,

Quite a few G-hogs are taking harp lessons in hog heaven since you first posted this thread.  :)

I'm having a rough season so far this year. I'm only 2 for 15, not a good batting average. I found two dumb ones that let me get close but most of my shots have been at 30-40 yards. I took a 105yd shot at a true monster last evening and fell short. I've been after this guy for a couple years and this is as close as I can get.
There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.  Coach John Wooden

ishoot4thrills

Like I said 5 years ago, lol, a good way to stalk them is to sneak around old barns and outbuildings and catch one feasting on clover and nab him before he takes off running to his hole, usually underneath the foundation at the side of the barn.

If he gets to his hole before you can get a shot off, just find a good hiding place and wait for him to come back out of his hole.

It's very difficult to get within bow range in the open fields if you choose to spot and stalk. I would much rather setup near their hole and wait for him to come out.
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Dan bree

What a great  posts.   Boy it brings back great memories . Hunted them hard back in the 70s.  Up Montana mountain in nj      And the gap.   Buts and bows. Archery shop had a contest very year winner would get a free hunt  somewhere !   Best trick we had was in the sommer when we had tans was to take are shirts off  and  stalk. Them like browsing deer  we were the same color  . Got real close and when they stood up like little bears  we shot.   Bear Kodak  1966. 2219s.  And oo3 heads. On. Microflite shafts.    Man take me back please. ,
Dan Breen

frank bullitt

That's a cool story, Dan! Love to hear different ways to stalk and hunt!

Ate the liver and heart last night, and as Andy would say, Ummmm, Goooood!


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