Let the games begin!

[msinc]

I had no idea they were that aggressive towards property,I’m always outta touch of course but NOW I believe I’ll hunt the little buggers

The mistress of finance has three horses...not cheap ones either, one was flown over from Holland!!! You get that?? Not only is there not a horse she can ride on this continent...but there aint even one in this hemisphere!!!
Anyways, crop damage is not the only problem these things cause...they dig big holes in the fields. Now we can fly to the moon 50 years ago, but we cant do anything but put down a horse with a broken leg. Bottom line...crop farmers are not the only ones that are glad to see guys that use "lead poisoning" to get rid of woodchucks!!!

 

[JFrank]

I get the holes to break a horse leg in the rest is a little deep for me

 

[msinc]

I get the holes to break a horse leg in the rest is a little deep for me

I don't know about the "tons" of hay, but I have seen where they have a den in the middle of a soybean field and they will eat the bean plants right down to the ground for 75-100 feet out from the den hole in a near perfect circle. You have to hunt from a treestand and be able to look down on it to appreciate just how perfect of a circle it sometimes is. A circle 200 feet across is not too much less than a square 210X210 {1 acre}. Probably not just one but a mother and two or three little ones.
Also, cattle can break their legs in a den hole too. Had a buddy twist his ankle in one while coonhunting one night...he might as well have broke his leg. Don't even try to plant a garden around them.
Woodchucks are strange little animals, and very political. Some prefer to live out in the woods and seem to do no damage at all, but the democrat ones, you know the ones that always need a free ride, move in and destroy the neighborhood.....they'd like to see my guns taken away too!!!

 

[MrMajestic]

You would be surprised at how smart horses and mules are as they avoid them! Ever see crooked rows of planted crops? Not a drunk Amishman but a Chuck probably had something to do with it...

 

[6MMsteve]

I don't know about the "tons" of hay, but I have seen where they have a den in the middle of a soybean field and they will eat the bean plants right down to the ground for 75-100 feet out from the den hole in a near perfect circle. You have to hunt from a treestand and be able to look down on it to appreciate just how perfect of a circle it sometimes is. A circle 200 feet across is not too much less than a square 210X210 {1 acre}. Probably not just one but a mother and two or three little ones.
Also, cattle can break their legs in a den hole too. Had a buddy twist his ankle in one while coonhunting one night...he might as well have broke his leg. Don't even try to plant a garden around them.
Woodchucks are strange little animals, and very political. Some prefer to live out in the woods and seem to do no damage at all, but the democrat ones, you know the ones that always need a free ride, move in and destroy the neighborhood.....they'd like to see my guns taken away too!!!

that's funny

 

[msinc]

You would be surprised at how smart horses and mules are as they avoid them! Ever see crooked rows of planted crops? Not a drunk Amishman but a Chuck probably had something to do with it...

You would be surprised at how stupid expensive horses are!!! In fact, the more they cost the stupider they are. Amish plugs that they typically work to death will never step in a hole, but you let my wife's $40,000.00 dressage horse out in a field and that idiot will run right to the first hole. Kinda like a mutt sleeping on the double yellow line, people will run down thru the woods to avoid hitting him...one of my coonhounds puts a toenail on the white line and he's splattered.

 

[JFrank]

My Daughter has a mule and a horse, guess which one is smarter

 

[MrMajestic]

My Daughter has a mule and a horse, guess which one is smarter

I know...

 

[MrMajestic]

Hunted whitetail from mules a while back. Great hunt with my father, brother and old friend. Mules won't take you under low branches to expel you...

 

[JFrank]

They won’t take any crap from a lion either.