PA woodchuck hunting
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Mark W
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Not hardly. If anything the extra money from O&G leases saved a lot of dying farms.
Mark W
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No. Honestly, I don’t believe there we be a connection. No industry is perfect, but 99% of the bad press about O&G production is BS. The only real damage I ever saw was to the roads that were not originally designed for so much heavy truck traffic. On the flip side, the operators pay enough in taxes and fees from drilling in Marcellus and Utica shale that every road in the area should be new if the greedy bureaucrats spent the money properly.
snert
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I was not bashing OG. It has been my experience though, many OG farms are doing a lot less farming, crops than in the past.
What a shame - I hunted Greene County farms in the 60's to mid 80's, some of the greatest varmint hunts I never had. I hunted several farms in the Graysville Area.
Due to the rolling terrain, you could hunt with a handgun stalking to within 50 yards in many areas of the farms. I took many of hogs with my open sight S&W Model 27, 357 Magnum. There was just something magically roaming those hay fields with a revolver strapped to my hip.
Lebanon
JEFFPPC
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He said a, as in 1, farm had a good population.The farmer thought he was over run not the OP. I have found some farmers who have 2 or 3 holes on several hundred acres think they are overun. No it is not like it was in 1960 but some work might find a guy some good spots. It did for me.
i topped 100 about a dozen times in the past. last 5yrs or so i averaged 2 to 3 that i sent sent the dog after. they get more than i do!
not worth going after them around here anymore.
The most I ever got in a season was 130ish. That was going after work 4 days a week. Was working with a bunch of Amish guys and have a lot of farms I was aloud to hunt. Some of these guys said I don’t have many groundhogs but you can have at it. 15-20 hogs in an evening and they would come out and say what you been shooting at lol. I would point to the pile of ground hogs. This one guy said “ you stacking dem like cord wood” lol
itchyTF
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You work for the CIA?
i never weighed them.
JEFFPPC
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We never have either but I have shot some toads.
JEFFPPC
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Looks like you shot that little guy on the range.
I like the expression: There are two kinds of people, those that believe what others want them to believe and those that use the brain that god gave them.
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