Socked A Groundhog

[Kevin Beachy]

Was using a 22 and shooting down into a slight dip at around 50 yards. She popped out of here hole. I was aiming for the heart but i was a little shaky and put the bullet through her one earhole and it came out right beside the other earhole!

[clayton86]

Nice! Love shooting woodchucks(groundhog) I got one a few months ago with the .17hmr out of my kitchen window lol. I've been focusing on taking them with the bow I got one last fall with the bow.

[Kevin Beachy]

Since we live on a farm, dad hates ground hogs because they eat the soybeans so every ground hog we get is wonderfull.

[clayton86]

That's how I get a lot of my hunting property's ask to shoot ground hogs or coyotes get my foot in the door and it's usually not long that the land owner extends the offer to put up a deer stand.

[Jeff H]

Good shot Kevin!  It's best to head shoot them fat chucks.  

[clayton86]

Good shot Kevin! It's best to head shoot them fat chucks.

Definitely I've had them run off with shots from a 22 to the chest. My 17 to the chest drops them but that's the nature of them little. 17s

[Kevin Beachy]

Definitely I've had them run off with shots from a 22 to the chest. My 17 to the chest drops them but that's the nature of them little. 17s

Ive hit them in the back on the spine and they dissapear down there hole.

[clayton86]

I like hitting them with the .243 they do flips

[Kevin Beachy]

I like hitting them with the .243 they do flips

Being farmers, We only have a shotgun. a cricket 22(this is my gun) and  a regular 22(this is the gun the ground hog was assassinated with and its my brothers.)

[clayton86]

Heck farmers around here carry 22-250s come October 1 only good coyote is a dead coyote. I know some who let the 250 ride with them year round

[Kevin Beachy]

Heck farmers around here carry 22-250s come October 1 only good coyote is a dead coyote. I know some who let the 250 ride with them year round

We thankfully rarely see a coyote around here. I usally here them at night but our dog lets them know there not welcome and they shutup.

[buzzed bait]

nice shooting.  this thread had me thinking about fun times

i had a good time with some folks out in SW Montana.... bad problem with gophers out there on the ranches and the cattle break their legs off in the holes so they want them all gone...  we rode around for hours in a beat down VW rabbit with no windows/windshield/etc. blasting gophers til we had no more ammo...

hog hunting on a massive 32,000 acre ranch down in Florida we were always asked to shoot armadillos on sight.  same deal, cattle break their legs in the holes.  these trips were always fun as it was more like an extermination than a hunt ....  any coyote, armadillo or hog you see is fair game. 

[Kevin Beachy]

nice shooting.  this thread had me thinking about fun times

i had a good time with some folks out in SW Montana.... bad problem with gophers out there on the ranches and the cattle break their legs off in the holes so they want them all gone...  we rode around for hours in a beat down VW rabbit with no windows/windshield/etc. blasting gophers til we had no more ammo...

hog hunting on a massive 32,000 acre ranch down in Florida we were always asked to shoot armadillos on sight.  same deal, cattle break their legs in the holes.  these trips were always fun as it was more like an extermination than a hunt ....  any coyote, armadillo or hog you see is fair game. 

I would love doing that!!!