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Took a big mama GH tonight at 7:30 PM with my .223 Mini-Mauser and Hornady SX 55 gr. bullet.

TIP:
If you can find an open space in the beans along a fence row in a bean field that was a spot that produced earlier in June, go there and wait, as the remaining chucks [I knew there were some more] are still feeding at the spot they have been using all year.

Distance may be less than 20 yards (due to the tall beans) and you have to sit /stand where you can see...I sat right in the shorter beans chewed off earlier in the summer...

Set the scope on 3-4X and be vigilant....I waited an hour before that groundhog showed up.

 
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You're doing better then me. This has been a horrible season in my area, most of my places are shot out and I haven't found any new ones yet.

For 3 hours Sunday I got 2 and that was it.
 
Been a "down" year for me in the central part of the state, also. Time constraints, heat, extra-high beans (where they haven't planted corn), and farms that are near being shot-out have limited my kills so far to just under 40 Many of those have been under 100 yards - rimfire range, but I'll take 'em because I learned long ago those that one "saves for later" just end up disappearing and/or leaving the area anyway. (Also, like it or not, a "scorched-earth" policy might not be good for enriching no.'s of targets, but does bolster references for future farms to hunt.) The longest of the year so far was one I shot out of a fallen tree @ 250 yds. last week. Kind of embarassing. Some of those short ones have resulted from doing just what Buckeye Spl. suggested: stalking through the high beans to the shorter areas and browse lines where some are still feeding. Still believe they tend to hole up during long spells of high heat/humidity, but can't prove it.
 
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