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It looks like it's time for the 2009 Hunting and Fishing thread. Tony should be posting his latest groundhog pics.
Here's a newly shedded buck from last week. The cams are out now so we should have some more pics in the future.  |
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Here he is.
 Ive got the camera back out as well to see if I can get a few Turkey on it. T |
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Awwww, he looks so peaceful...
 Those guys will break horse's leg in not time. Not to mention what they do to me when I walk the field! |
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Maybe a dumb question..... But can you eat it? |
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Actually It's not a dumb question. I have heard people talk about ways to prepare them. I heard you have to boil them first. I just did a Google and found numerous recipes. Below is one. They boil it in this receipe too. [....http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Woodchuck-(Groundhog)-Pie/20400/....]] The one Tony shot in the picture has a real nice winter coat. |
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CG Forums Lead Moderator Something Wicked This Way Comes |
For the record, I am not about shooting animals for the fun of it, but I have cattle in that field and despite even having a backhoe dig down and then fill the holes, they dig them back out.
Its one thing to have one or two roaming around, but a whole nother issue having them tearing up the garden, corn plots, and tearing my field apart with holes 2 feet across. If anyone knows someone who eats them, let me know. I dont have the stomach for that, they remind me of Nutria down South. Hey John, Ive got a question for ya. I had an exercise over at the Maryland National Capital Park Police HQs last week and while waiting for the exercise to start, I reached down and picked up the MD 2009 Game rules and regs book they offer. A glanced at the deer section and noticed they have a limit for Sika Deer. I had no clue those were even in the state. Ever seen one? T |
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Tony, I have seen mounted ones. The are popular these days. Below is the Sika deer link on Maryland Whitetails.Com. The are over on the eastern shore side. Alot of folks hunt them. I think there are fallow deer aver there too. They are are supposed to be hard to hunt. John [....http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/mb/marylandwhitetail?forum=40151...] |
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I take it he DIDN'T see his shadow so does that mean we'll have 6 more weeks of Winter?
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It doesn't look like that was on hs mind at the time. Tucson Tony beat him in a shotgun duel. Now he is going to take a dirt nap. |
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Wow Tony, your battle with the ground hogs are very simular to my battle with Muskrats here in NC. They are tearing up my pond. When I go to cut the grass in the sumer I just about put my tractor in the pond a few times when I go over their tunnels and the wheels sink in. So far I've killed 28 of them in various ways. I've trapped them, sniped them from the back deck, and my Lab got a few as well!
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CG Forums Lead Moderator Something Wicked This Way Comes |
I know the feeling. I actually considered hiring a blast master to demo the mounds, but the state gave me a rough time with an environmental damage assessment. Never got that one, the groundswine are doing more damage than a blast, yet I have to do an assessment to see how much more damage a blast might do. I had a cousin in MS who use to buy commercial explosives and blow up stumps. I could never figure out how he was picking the stuff up. Then I was told his son who grew up with me, had been sent to a Federal Pen in Texas for bomb making. I never asked about how the stuff was being acquired after that. T |
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Sure fire fix if g-hogs are in the hole..... One shovel Two smoke bombs from any dollar store one box of matches Locate the hole with a resident g-hog in it. Light two smoke bombs and toss into hole Immediately cover hole with dirt Either go back home and get a drink to celebrate your victory or continue on to the next hole. This is how I took one out a couple of years ago that was living under a big storage container. It works.... |
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CG Forums Lead Moderator Something Wicked This Way Comes |
I have gone as far as hooking a hose up to the ATV exhaust and pumped carbon monoxide down each hole for 20 mins and it didnt work. T |
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Hmmmm....maybe the exhaust fumes didn't go down the hole far enough??? Ok...next option is to get a garden hose and flood them out. That works for pesky moles. I've done that alot. |
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Here's a nice red (27") taken from the surf in Quintana, TX and a tasty black drum and a few sand trout. Got the sand trout and the drum on frozen shrimp and the red on immature blue gill.
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Congrats on the nice catch!! The boys sure have a big grin.
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Thanks. The next day we went out and they got to reel in some decent little sand trout. They ususally just like going to the beach!
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Sounds like your Groundhogs are kinda like Badgers.
Never had much luck with water on the moles. The little traps work pretty good though. I've heard of them gassing prair dog's in the hay feilds. Not sure what it was, looked almost like a propane canister with a long nozzel to put down the hole. Used to wait by the pond where I knew the muskrat normaly came out with my 12 ga. You'd hear them working their way out of the hole alot of the time around sunset and pop up about 15-20 ft from shore. My dad used to use some real heavy duty smoke bombs are Coyote dens in the Spring to get the pups out. The big ones where the size of our parcute flares with 5 or 6 fuse's. He'd wait above one hole with his pistol and me on the other side with the shot gun. We'd kill 100's like that every spring not counting the trap line or calling. If the pups didn't come out then we would cover all the holes where smoke was coming out with rocks and dirt then toss in a couple more in the last hole before covering. In the winter we'd put out Cynide traps. Not sure what they where realy called but it was a spring loaded device that was baited for the coyote to bite. When bitten it would fire a glass cyinide capsole into the mouth and shatter it. He was a trapper for Animal damge control under Dept of Agraculture. Gota see and do alot of cool stuff. Trapped Bobcat, coyote, badger, skunk, lion, bear, porcupine, and beaver. So of course I always had the flu. Skiped school for a lion killing lambs when I was 13. Will try to figure out how to load the pics on here. |
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CG Forums Lead Moderator Something Wicked This Way Comes |
 This morning I received intel which indicates the groundhogs are planning an assault. As a result of this credible threat, I have decided to increase the household threat level to Red, indicating varment attack is imminent. T |
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