ground hog
Oct 12, 2023 11:48:29 #
april 2023 in nj across street from my house
Oct 12, 2023 13:39:22 #
lukevaliant wrote:
april 2023 in nj across street from my house
A well-shot, cool little dude 🤎🌞🌞🤎
Oct 12, 2023 15:11:45 #
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Oct 12, 2023 22:45:06 #
I used to hunt them in the soybean fields on my uncle's fields in Missouri. Really good in a crockpot!
Oct 13, 2023 01:52:06 #
Retired CPO wrote:
I used to hunt them in the soybean fields on my uncle's fields in Missouri. Really good in a crockpot!
I'll take your word for it Chief, my .22-250 turned them into mush
Oct 13, 2023 06:02:12 #
lukevaliant wrote:
april 2023 in nj across street from my house
Destructive little Bastards
Sharon live in town , had a Ground hog get into one of her flower beds then tunneled under her concrete porch, she paid a lot of money to have strapped and removed. I would have removed it for her for nothing but there is something about shooting in the town
One animal I have no love for!!
Oct 13, 2023 08:56:35 #
lukevaliant wrote:
april 2023 in nj across street from my house
They are Very Destructive critters!!!
Oct 13, 2023 09:59:28 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I'll take your word for it Chief, my .22-250 turned them into mush
That's because you were shooting them as varmints. I used my .222 with solids. I was helping feed my eleven siblings. My Mom would have been very disappointed if I brought home mush! But she would probably still have found a way to turn it into food!!
Oct 13, 2023 11:56:35 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Yep it sure is but I always identified them as a target 
Me too when I was a kid growing up in upstate NY. They are pretty good fried or in a stew as well. Western marmots are basically the same animal with that same great taste.
Dennis
Oct 13, 2023 11:58:49 #
Oct 13, 2023 11:59:48 #
Retired CPO wrote:
I used to hunt them in the soybean fields on my uncle's fields in Missouri. Really good in a crockpot!
I have shot them with .22 LR, .22 Magnum, 257 Roberts and a 243 Winchester. The last two pretty much ruined them for eating purposes but the .22 LR and .22 Magnum kept them pretty much together and edible. God did His best to make targets. What we do with those targets is up to us.
Dennis
Oct 13, 2023 12:00:29 #
Excellent photos of the woodchuck. Amazing little targets, er, um, I mean mammals but destructive.
Dennis
Dennis
Oct 13, 2023 14:05:29 #
dennis2146 wrote:
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We grew up poor, twelve kids to feed. There wasn't always meat on the table. Boiled potatoes were a staple. But between me and my two older brothers, we usually could bring something to the table. And we weren't too particular as to what it was. I became a very good shot with my used Remington model 600 .222. Cheap ammunition! That pose in photo number one was perfect!! Short barrel or not, it was/is a tack sharp shooter! A head shot with solid .22cal bullets left very little ruined meat!! And we all benefitted from the protein!
Those were the days!!
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