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My groundhog hunting is generally more geared toward eradication, so I try to hit the fields hard in the spring, and then check back in throughout the summer to clean-up anything that I might not have gotten early.


IMHO, getting as many g'hogs as you can early, so as to minimize any crop damage is a REALLY good way to endear yourself to the farmer/landowner.  Ditto that for getting them out of the pastures ASAP.


Likely if you do this, you'll be able to come back for other varmints ('yotes, foxes, etc.), and possibly for game animals later in the year.


I look at varmint hunting two-fold (and this is just my opinion, I suspect many have different views), in that it gives me excellent year-round rifle practice, and it's a service in removing the pests from the property of the landowners who allow me to hunt.


I'm not a farmer, but I grew up in farm country, worked on a bunch as a kid, and still live in farm-rich areas.  I figure this is my way of still helping out on the farm...


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