Groundhog tally so far since June.

[ohlongarmisle]

I save the empty shell casings and sell them here. a member just bought 262 empty 17 Hornet cases, representing my groundhog tally in 2024. I don't know how we'll do in 2025, but we have a ways to go so far, each of these cases dropped a groundhog. Since the first week of June, I only post pictures when it's six or more in a day. Sixty one or two.

 

[WV Hitman]

Sinc e my groundhogs are extremely limited in my part of WV I add my rockchucks in ID with them (identical animals). This year 117 WV groundhogs, 270 ID rockchucks. So 2025 is 387 of the cousins and that is handguns only!!

 

[ohlongarmisle]

Sinc e my groundhogs are extremely limited in my part of WV I add my rockchucks in ID with them (identical animals). This year 117 WV groundhogs, 270 ID rockchucks. So 2025 is 387 of the cousins and that is handguns only!!

That's a nice haul, but you see, I have something that gets in my way often, and it's work. No big deal it provides a decent lifestyle though,I try to get out twice a week till Thanksgiving here. So far so good,rockchucks for me next year, hopefully.Good hunting to you.

 

[WV Hitman]

I remember the work thing. Did that for 47 years. When you get "retarded" life gets better.....usually.
Gotta have something to keep away the stresses of work. Hunting worked for me. Looks like you got it figured out, too.

 

[ohlongarmisle]

I remember the work thing. Did that for 47 years. When you get "retarded" life gets better.....usually.
Gotta have something to keep away the stresses of work. Hunting worked for me. Looks like you got it figured out, too.

Amen, I've hunted since the age of 7 with supervision. Without an outlet for my passion, doing what I do is a recipe for disaster. Fortunately, I've plenty of spots, including a backyard that's 1000 acres, with no access to the public. I've to be thankful for that; that's where the hard work pays off. Where I live now, only doctors and high-end professionals live, and I'm wondering what I'm doing here. Everybody has at least 10 to 200 acres hidden well off the road.

 

[WV Hitman]

Uh! Oh! you're high end now. I do a lot of housing type deer & groundhog removal with subsonic use & the game wardens blessing. One year killed 30 ghogs around the local football field. I "scored" pretty good

 

[ohlongarmisle]

Uh! Oh! you're high end now. I do a lot of housing type deer & groundhog removal with subsonic use & the game wardens blessing. One year killed 30 ghogs around the local football field. I "scored" pretty goodView attachment 1678386

Same hear all my stuff is suppressed,17 Hornet,204,22 etc. I charge 200 for a coyote removal and had to stop because it became overwhelming.Just not enough time,I sometimes deviate if there's groundhog shooting as a tradeoff.

 

[WV Hitman]

All my "removals" are freebies. Gets me more "business". Coyotes got smart in my part of WV. Too many people trying to call them & just spook them. I get a few a year when crop damage deer hunting using my original .300 Whisper made by my good friend JD Jones of SSK Industries.+

 

[ohlongarmisle]

All my "removals" are freebies. Gets me more "business". Coyotes got smart in my part of WV. Too many people trying to call them & just spook them. I get a few a year when crop damage deer hunting using my original .300 Whisper made by my good friend JD Jones of SSK Industries.+

It doesn't take but an hour or so to know when amateur callers have been in an area. You might as well pack up and leave. I've called in Ohio, Pa, West Virginia, Iowa, South Dakota, South Carolina, and North Carolina, as well as Montana and Arizona In 25 years, I've racked up hundreds that were accounted for with pictures.An area with no amateur hour hunters, an experienced caller, can rack up numbers like this.