I'm still at war with the groundhogs

[Fjold]

Got this young, very dark, groundhog about 15 minutes ago. It was 100 yards from the basement door with the 22.250AI. I had to move him to take the picture as the it looked like a red firehose pattern in the grass where I shot him.

[Fjold]

I have too many critters in my yard (70 acres) to let the dogs run loose. They're city dogs and don't know how to handle a coyote, a big boar coon or groundhog, possums, minks, otters, skunks, bobcats, etc. About the only animals that we don't have here are bears, wolves, lions and pigs. Actually, there was one bear spotted in our county in the last 10 years, and it was on my property.

[hermosabeach]

Can you collapse their tunnels?

[Fjold]

Can you collapse their tunnels?

They always have another exit hidden under rocks or in thick brush. I filled in one hole in 2023 and it took 1 1/2 pickup bed loads of dirt and a couple of rainstorms to fill it.

[hermosabeach]

When it's not too dry, you can fill the tunnel with propane and use a spark to set it off.

small boom and most of the tunnels collapses they sell a kit but 2 alligator clips on steel wool and a 12v battery work.

the 12v makes the steel wool burn and that detonates the propane.


had problems decades ago with ground squirrels eating fruit tree roots.

kill them and others use their old burrows

so flatten out the tunnels when you don't have fire danger.