I saw a dead by the road mon.Won't be long now. I have hunted them for 30 years. Mostly with a 7mm mag, All I had at the time.It was is Ruger 77 glass bedded that would hit out to 400 yds,an exception. I currently use a Sako heavy barrel in 243/ 71 gr. berger benchrest bullet,and a Savage 7mag heavy barrel/160 gr, amax, The Sako is more accurate and you can usually see your hit.I still like that 7 though Longest lucky hit 652 lasered yds. It took 4 shot's,glad he was patient.Twenty years ago I could go to Deer creek St. Pk. and get 5/7 a day best was 11. That place got a lot of pressure and the coyotes came. I don't even go there now I go to Amish country now less woods for the dogs to hide in but there comming I see the prints,scat and them every now and againI have seen a couple of them carrying groundhog parts.We need to punish those coyotes. There pushing me.
Anyone like to hunt woodchucks?
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CatShooter
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I saw a dead by the road mon.Won't be long now. I have hunted them for 30 years. Mostly with a 7mm mag, All I had at the time.It was is Ruger 77 glass bedded that would hit out to 400 yds,an exception. I currently use a Sako heavy barrel in 243/ 71 gr. berger benchrest bullet,and a Savage 7mag heavy barrel/160 gr, amax, The Sako is more accurate and you can usually see your hit.I still like that 7 though Longest lucky hit 652 lasered yds. It took 4 shot's,glad he was patient.Twenty years ago I could go to Deer creek St. Pk. and get 5/7 a day best was 11. That place got a lot of pressure and the coyotes came. I don't even go there now I go to Amish country now less woods for the dogs to hide in but there comming I see the prints,scat and them every now and againI have seen a couple of them carrying groundhog parts.We need to punish those coyotes. There pushing me.
Do the Amish allow you to shoot on their fields?
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I saw a dead by the road mon.Won't be long now. I have hunted them for 30 years. Mostly with a 7mm mag, All I had at the time.It was is Ruger 77 glass bedded that would hit out to 400 yds,an exception. I currently use a Sako heavy barrel in 243/ 71 gr. berger benchrest bullet,and a Savage 7mag heavy barrel/160 gr, amax, The Sako is more accurate and you can usually see your hit.I still like that 7 though Longest lucky hit 652 lasered yds. It took 4 shot's,glad he was patient.Twenty years ago I could go to Deer creek St. Pk. and get 5/7 a day best was 11. That place got a lot of pressure and the coyotes came. I don't even go there now I go to Amish country now less woods for the dogs to hide in but there comming I see the prints,scat and them every now and againI have seen a couple of them carrying groundhog parts.We need to punish those coyotes. There pushing me.
Do the Amish allow you to shoot on their fields?
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PABob
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I was about 5 years old when my Dad first took me with him hunting groundhogs, been hooked ever since. There was a time when a lot of the farmers around here stopped cattle farming and cut fields were hard to find and we didn't do much hunting but that has all changed. Now we go as often as possible. With the mentor program here in Pa. I've been taking my Grandson, Jake with me. Got him hooked now too. My Boy's, my Grandson, a good rifle and a pocket full of shells. Can't think of a better way to spend a summer evening.
And yes, the Amish allow hunting. Just respect them and their land and you'll have a very good friend. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
And yes, the Amish allow hunting. Just respect them and their land and you'll have a very good friend. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
VirginiaVarminter
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I love to hunt groundhogs. Been doing it for 20 years. I've killed them with everything from a 270 and 7-08 to 220swift and 204r. I agree with some of the other posters about yotes having an affect on groundhog populations. It is strange because they don't seem to have a negative affect on deer populations where I live.
CatShooter
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I love to hunt groundhogs. Been doing it for 20 years. I've killed them with everything from a 270 and 7-08 to 220swift and 204r. I agree with some of the other posters about yotes having an affect on groundhog populations. It is strange because they don't seem to have a negative affect on deer populations where I live.
I went up to Vermont two summers ago, and took a few groundhog rifles.
I saw some of the most beautiful pastures and fields and not a single groundhog where there should have been hundreds.
The farmers said that the coyotes were so bad that the groundhogs were gone a long time ago, and that they had to keep the calves in cages for the first year to give them time to grow large enough to survive the coyotes.
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I love to hunt groundhogs. Been doing it for 20 years. I've killed them with everything from a 270 and 7-08 to 220swift and 204r. I agree with some of the other posters about yotes having an affect on groundhog populations. It is strange because they don't seem to have a negative affect on deer populations where I live.
I went up to Vermont two summers ago, and took a few groundhog rifles.
I saw some of the most beautiful pastures and fields and not a single groundhog where there should have been hundreds.
The farmers said that the coyotes were so bad that the groundhogs were gone a long time ago, and that they had to keep the calves in cages for the first year to give them time to grow large enough to survive the coyotes.
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I truly believe they are hurting the ground hog population. Places I use to hunt are barren now.There breeding would always allow them to remain huntable. Then the coyotes came as I mentioned in an earlier post my sister in law ran over one in Columbus Oh about 20 years ago. Big news in the paper. Saw my first one hunting about 12 ago going down hill every since. I was going to build a high dollar ghog rifle but what would I use it on? Now I have to drive60/80 miles to areas that are not so wooded and don't support them so well.They are comming there now,I see the skat, and tracks and even them ocasionally. I have been putting the hammer down on the hogs before mr. yote does. Nature will balance itself out but there will be slimmer pickens till then. The hog have only had us and foxes as predators for awhile. There is a new lion in the den.There pushing Me.
Wish we had more yotes because the Ghog population is out of control they are killing apple trees at an alarming rate cant kill enough of them my record season in 84 and it averages around there it has some what been slacking off but not by much. You can easily walk an orchard and kill 7 and see boat loads more running away.
huntnfish08
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I can't hunt them up here in WI. We've got them, just not allowed to hunt them.
When I was stationed in VA they were everywhere. It was nothing to see 20-30 on post when on a run. I really had the itch to slaughter them. Never have got one though.
Adam
When I was stationed in VA they were everywhere. It was nothing to see 20-30 on post when on a run. I really had the itch to slaughter them. Never have got one though.
Adam
CatShooter
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I can't hunt them up here in WI. We've got them, just not allowed to hunt them.
Adam
How come??
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I can't hunt them up here in WI. We've got them, just not allowed to hunt them.
Adam
How come??
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blueline1911
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I love to hunt groundhogs. Been doing it for 20 years. I've killed them with everything from a 270 and 7-08 to 220swift and 204r. I agree with some of the other posters about yotes having an affect on groundhog populations. It is strange because they don't seem to have a negative affect on deer populations where I live.
I went up to Vermont two summers ago, and took a few groundhog rifles.
I saw some of the most beautiful pastures and fields and not a single groundhog where there should have been hundreds.
The farmers said that the coyotes were so bad that the groundhogs were gone a long time ago, and that they had to keep the calves in cages for the first year to give them time to grow large enough to survive the coyotes.
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I live in Vermont and have noticed the same thing. I see some of these pics with guys and the 10 chucks they shot in a day and I am jealous. I drive by about 1000 acres of hay and alfalfa field every day, twice a day, on the way to and from work. In the two years since I bought the house I live in now I have seen exactly 1 chuck, and I am always looking for them. I can tell you that I've seen about 10 coyotes though.
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I love to hunt groundhogs. Been doing it for 20 years. I've killed them with everything from a 270 and 7-08 to 220swift and 204r. I agree with some of the other posters about yotes having an affect on groundhog populations. It is strange because they don't seem to have a negative affect on deer populations where I live.
I went up to Vermont two summers ago, and took a few groundhog rifles.
I saw some of the most beautiful pastures and fields and not a single groundhog where there should have been hundreds.
The farmers said that the coyotes were so bad that the groundhogs were gone a long time ago, and that they had to keep the calves in cages for the first year to give them time to grow large enough to survive the coyotes.
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I live in Vermont and have noticed the same thing. I see some of these pics with guys and the 10 chucks they shot in a day and I am jealous. I drive by about 1000 acres of hay and alfalfa field every day, twice a day, on the way to and from work. In the two years since I bought the house I live in now I have seen exactly 1 chuck, and I am always looking for them. I can tell you that I've seen about 10 coyotes though.