Groundhog shooters... happy groundhog day - I think :(

[CatShooter]

Groundhog Day 2015: Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow, predicts six more weeks of winter.

The little sonovabitch saw his shadow in the middle of a huge snow storm.

I'm gonna kill him and all of his fuzzy little cousins when I get a chance.

 

[Ohio Varmint Shooter]

C'mon springtime!

 

[varmintshooter]

I know that I am doing my part to ensure that a lot of them will never see their shadow again.

 

[MrMajestic]

I'm going get that little SOB! As many of his relatives as I can too!

 

[wyoming .260]

Spring usually starts here in earnest about the end of May, so he is usually Wrong...........

 

[Laurie]

Spring usually starts here in earnest about the end of May, so he is usually Wrong...........

......... and I thought the North of England had a long, miserable winter!

 

[waterfwlr]

Haven't had a huntable population in my part of NY in 15 yrs.

 

[dkhunt14]

I bet the mayor in Wisconsin might be a not happy about groundhog day. The handler held him close so the Mayor could hear and the groundhog bit him in the ear. I the video you could see the groundhog bit him. Matt

 

[hogpatrol]

"Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray is still one of my favorites and yes, I plan on taking out many of Phil's distant relatives. ;D

 

[40X Guy]

I bet the mayor in Wisconsin might be a not happy about groundhog day. The handler held him close so the Mayor could hear and the groundhog bit him in the ear. I the video you could see the groundhog bit him. Matt

LOL, saw that this morning. The Mayor is actually quite lucky. The chuck must have been half asleep as it could have easily ripped his ear off. I've seen them in action close up and personal and you do not want to get a big 14 pounder cornered..

Frank

 

[timeout]

I bet the mayor in Wisconsin might be a not happy about groundhog day. The handler held him close so the Mayor could hear and the groundhog bit him in the ear. I the video you could see the groundhog bit him. Matt

That took place about an hour from me. The Mayor got a little backwoods education on allowing an animal whisper in his ear. I am surprised that the blood was not freely flowing. Mayor had probably been outside long enough that his ear lobe was frozen!

 

[IA_shooter]

I'm doing my part to help thin them little SOB's down here in Iowa. This one won't be biting anyone in the ear, especially since that's about where my 17gr pill bit him. 8) ............

 

[Laurie]

Not a species we have in the British Isles - nothing similar here at all, all our squirrels (including your grey which was unwisely introduced in the 19th century and has largely killed the native reds off) are tree dwellers.

Still, who knows? We have people determined to (re)introduce wolves, European beavers, some huge owl and various other predatory birds. Wild boar are back (farmed animals that escaped) and how long before somebody tells us we must reintroduce the other significant hunted off big animal, the bear? Maybe we'll get groundhogs too just for variety!

 

[mshelton]

I know you're secretly supposed to wait for them to have their little ones in the spring before going after them but there's a few heavily infested fields I have access to and I don't think there's going to be any way for me to resist going to town on them as soon as I see the first brown head pop up.

 

[snert]

Over 600 in 17 years from one honeyhole NY farm....

Doing my part to send a message to Phil. I hate winter.

And I have been tracking Cody WY weather and it beats Upstate NY in warmer temps overall, less snow too. And I have seen ice here in May, still not melted off cause the sun hardly ever shines. 21 days straight of no sun in December. The only shadow that varmint saw was cast from Klieg lights.

Snert

 

[CatShooter]

Over 600 in 17 years from one honeyhole NY farm....

Doing my part to send a message to Phil. I hate winter.

And I have been tracking Cody WY weather and it beats Upstate NY in warmer temps overall, less snow too. And I have seen ice here in May, still not melted off cause the sun hardly ever shines. 21 days straight of no sun in December. The only shadow that varmint saw was cast from Klieg lights.

Snert

Snert...

Where abouts in NY are you - I used to shoot farms up along the Taconic when I lived in NY - I might go back, cuz groundhogs are an endangered species here.

The coyotes eat the little ones on the first days out of the holes!

 

[ShootDots]

Over 600 in 17 years from one honeyhole NY farm....

Doing my part to send a message to Phil. I hate winter.

And I have been tracking Cody WY weather and it beats Upstate NY in warmer temps overall, less snow too. And I have seen ice here in May, still not melted off cause the sun hardly ever shines. 21 days straight of no sun in December. The only shadow that varmint saw was cast from Klieg lights.

Snert

When I grew up in western New York, we used to hunt woodchucks around East Otto, Varysburg, Strykersville and Chaffee. We killed "more than a few".. Since then, I have hunted Prairie Dogs in abundance. However, I think hunting woodchucks was more fun, even though I killed more P'Dogs in one outing than all the years hunting woodchucks in New York combined! Great fun indeed!

 

[CatShooter]

When I grew up in western New York, we used to hunt woodchucks around East Otto, Varysburg, Strykersville and Chaffee. We killed "more than a few".. Since then, I have hunted Prairie Dogs in abundance. However, I think hunting woodchucks was more fun, even though I killed more P'Dogs in one outing than all the years hunting woodchucks in New York combined! Great fun indeed!

I hear that Ben...

the first time I went on a PD town (Conata Basin, SD) I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread - but after a few years, I realized how much I loved shooting Woodchucks in New England - rolling farms with hay bales and set up under a tree on a hill, over looking a large pasture - life doesn't get better than that.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/WoodchucksandGroundhogs/permalink/636516889767753/

 

[ShootDots]

When I grew up in western New York, we used to hunt woodchucks around East Otto, Varysburg, Strykersville and Chaffee. We killed "more than a few".. Since then, I have hunted Prairie Dogs in abundance. However, I think hunting woodchucks was more fun, even though I killed more P'Dogs in one outing than all the years hunting woodchucks in New York combined! Great fun indeed!

I hear that Ben...

the first time I went on a PD town (Canota Basssin, SD) I thought it was the ebst thing since sliced bread - but after a few ywars, I realized how much I loved shooting 'soodchucks in New England - rolling farms with hay bales and set up under a tree on a hill, over looknig a large pasture - life doesn't get better than that.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/WoodchucksandGroundhogs/permalink/636516889767753/

In Chaffee there were 10 "'chuck" fields. You literally went from one to the other over an expanse of about (guessing) 4-5 sections, separated by patches of wooded areas. In "field 3" as soon as you entered the field there was a G-I-A-N-T Elm tree (prior to the Elm tree disease) we used to sit under in the shade. The field was maybe only 150 yards wide. BUT it was a solid 600+ yards long with the far edge bordering a "woods line".. Those 'chucks would be right at the edge of the woods and come out on display! We had "less than stellar" rifles at the time BUT it was extreme fun. I remember the BEST shot made at a chuck was NOT all that far>>>but it was unique! The 'chuck was laying on his belly facing us. My friend had a 25-06 shooting the old "Browning" ammo with, I believe, and 87gr hollow point. He shot and the 'chuck flipped W-A-Y in the air and came down deader than a door nail. It was exactly 225 paces as I recall. We "investigated" to see the damage. All that bullet did was skim UNDERNEATH him peeling off ONLY a strip of fur! No other damage whatsoever! Yet, there he lay>> a BIG ole' boar, as dead as they come! That "unique" shot stuck with me all these years!

 

[lpreddick]

i, too, can hardly wait. on days i don't shoot or even see one, i enjoy the event...something about being away from the office,phone,beeper, people,etc. listening to nature is therapeutic and whacking a ghog at 300+yds feeds the hunter/gatherer part of my being. i belong to a varmint hunting club and was 9 #s off the club record for total weight in 2014. i introduce a new gun each season and this year it's a 20 TAC pushing 35 gr bergers at 3900 fps and 32 smks at 4100 fps... the "harvest" begins in march!