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  • Fjold
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Oct 2005
    • 22798

    I'm still at war with the groundhogs

    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.


    Frank

    One rifle, one planet, Holland's 375




    Life Member NRA, CRPA and SAF
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    Fjold
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Oct 2005
    • 22798

    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.
    Frank

    One rifle, one planet, Holland's 375




    Life Member NRA, CRPA and SAF

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      hermosabeach
      I need a LIFE!!
      • Feb 2009
      • 19110

      Can you collapse their tunnels?
      Rule 1- ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED

      Rule 2 -NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO DESTROY (including your hands and legs)

      Rule 3 -KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

      Rule 4 -BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET AND WHAT IS BEYOND IT
      (thanks to Jeff Cooper)

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        Fjold
        I need a LIFE!!
        • Oct 2005
        • 22798

        Originally posted by hermosabeach
        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.
        Frank

        One rifle, one planet, Holland's 375




        Life Member NRA, CRPA and SAF

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          hermosabeach
          I need a LIFE!!
          • Feb 2009
          • 19110

          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.
          Rule 1- ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED

          Rule 2 -NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO DESTROY (including your hands and legs)

          Rule 3 -KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

          Rule 4 -BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET AND WHAT IS BEYOND IT
          (thanks to Jeff Cooper)

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