Treechuck

[AccelR8]

Picture sent to me today by my daughter.

 

[WV Hitman]

Yes. Over the past 50 years I've taken 3 out of trees! One about 30 seconds after my friend asked if I ever saw one in a tree!

 

[357Mag]

Accelr8 -

Howdy !

I’ve shot a couple out of trees.

Also, beaned one off a small diameter sapling, in late winter….. using a long handled ice scraper. Finished him off w/ a nearby dead branch, of sufficient diameter.


With regards,
357Mag

 

[450BM]

Yep, I’ve shot 2 or 3 out of trees, a long time ago on a farm not too far away.

 

[K22]

I've seen this a few times also and was amazed by it. But it was too risky to take the shot, no backstop for the shot.

Blow downs are another favorite place for hog boys to climb to survey the area for threats. In one field I use to hunt a hog would climb up on the concrete pedestal of power line tower to check things out before dropping down into the alfalfa.

 

[GotRDid]

I shot one off the top of a Roll Bale of hay from the barn loft with my Marlin 39D lever gun while watching for Coyotes. Just over 50 yds and with a Winchester Expediter round; I’m not sure who was more surprised.

 

[ISS]

Woof!

Never seen that, but a friend from NM came up to shoot Rockchucks one Spring. He saw one atop a telephone pole. I am not sure what the heck he was doing up there, but my friend drilled him with a 40X 6mm Remington.
If I ever saw one here in a tree, I would be so surprised I would just take his/her picture and walk away.

Thanks for the photo...

ISS

 

[rfwind]

One day in my early teen years I heard our farm dogs barking treed along the creek several hundred yards from the house. I grabbed my Remington 41 single shot and headed that way. A groundhog had climbed a sycamore leaning over the creek to escape the dogs. A Winchester Super-X LRHP ended the commotion.
Twenty years later I saw a groundhog 4 or 5 feet up a small sapling along the edge of my Dad’s soybeans. A Super-X 22 Magnum from a Ruger Single Six took care of the bean eater.

 

[AccelR8]

First time I ever knew they climbed trees was about 45 years ago. Shooting at an old farm where the home had been empty for years but the land was rented out and farmed. I looked over at my friend and saw him aiming into a big tree about 50-60 yards away. He fires, something bigger than a squirrel falls to the ground from pretty high up. I said what was that? Woodchuck he says. I said no way. I thought it was odd a raccoon would be out in the middle of the day. He says, go look. Well, sure enough! Woodchuck.

Since then I've seen several.

 

[JEFFPPC]

Out of trees and off the top of fence posts.

 

[troupe]

Got one off of the top of the fence post.