Spring Groundhogs

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(28 March 2013, 22:38)Mortblanc Wrote: Over here we have a varmit type critter called a ground hog, sometime also called a woodchuck and by some a whistle pig.

The run from 2kilo up to about 4 kilo and stand between a foot and 1 1/2 tall.

They eat greens, espically the young plants in a garden. They can also clean out several rows of maise in a night.

They live in dense brush and fence rows, digging dens underground and causing cattle to be injured when they trip into the large holes these critters dig.

I have had a few living in the brushy patch behind my place and have needed to clear them out before spring planting starts.

I got one of the little buggers this afternoon. I caught him snoozing in the green patch in the back field, about 100 yards back. He never knew what hit him. I popped him with the dedicated back yard varmit gun in .22lr. It is quiet enough that the neighbors do not blink over it, not in my rural area anyway.

Spring has sprung! The critters are out and about. I will be working over the racoon population next. I killed about 25-30 of them last spring when they were trying to kill my hens.

Do they taste good?