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Post by davet on Jun 29, 2016 13:13:12 GMT -5
Actually......I whacked a total of 6. But one of the small one's I simply could not locate in the higher weeds. I took 4 of 'em with my Savage Model 10 accustock .223 using a Nosler BT 55gr over Varget and the last two "beefy" boys with my .17 Hornet with Nosler 25gr. (I think they are 25gr) but don't ask me the powder.....it's written on the side of the box they are in.  The shooting was fast 'n furious on the first 4. They all came outta a set of probably a dozen holes located in maybe a 20 foot area. It was a nice cool morning with the wind light 'n breezy.   Grilled hog, fried hog, baked hog, BBQ hog,........but mostly....just in da ditch hog. |
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Post by fleroo on Jun 29, 2016 14:15:50 GMT -5
Hopefully the "ditch" isn't next to the farmers bedroom window ?  |
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Post by turkeykiller on Jun 29, 2016 14:19:46 GMT -5
Good job. Is this the farm you showed me last year? I haven't got there hunting yet.
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Post by davet on Jun 29, 2016 15:00:56 GMT -5
"Ditch" is nowhere near anything of importance. TK, .....this place is not the same one I had shown you. This guy has several parcels of land. One of which he let's me hunt deer on. So, when he calls me to let me know he made his first hay cut......I just come over and do what I can to take 'em out. This is the most I've ever taken in one morning. Last week I took 2, so that's a total of 8. I'm gonna bet it will begin to slow down a bit. A few years ago I thought I wiped out the population completely. Problem is I don't have access to the surrounding farms.
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Post by Loggy on Jun 29, 2016 18:29:34 GMT -5
Nice Dave!! That youngin (middle first pic) makes my mouth water!! Floured with salt/pepper and fried in an iron skillet till crispy!! Don't get any better than that!!  |
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Post by dougell on Jun 30, 2016 10:45:35 GMT -5
Nice Dave!! That youngin (middle first pic) makes my mouth water!! Floured with salt/pepper and fried in an iron skillet till crispy!! Don't get any better than that!! Never ate one and never really planned on it.How do you prepare them?We live on a horse farm so I don't tolerate their existence.Every day my kid goes out on woodchuck patrol.Last week he brought one up to the house and wanted my to skin it.I told him to toss it in the weeds. |
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Post by Loggy on Jun 30, 2016 10:59:29 GMT -5
They are really similar to rabbit and prepared the same way(s). I like to salt/pepper and coat with flour and fry in an iron skillet. The young ones are outstanding. Givem a try....I assure you will not be disappointed.
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Post by dougell on Jun 30, 2016 11:10:41 GMT -5
Do you par boil them first?That's what I do with rabbits.
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Post by Loggy on Jun 30, 2016 11:19:46 GMT -5
I don't but that would work fine. Key is to gut/skin immediately in warm weather.
If you trap turtles....groundhog meat also is a good bait.
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Post by 3212 on Feb 12, 2017 9:41:16 GMT -5
Now that deer hunting is done for the season I'm thinking about some groundhog hunting this summer.I used to hunt them on the same properties I hunt deer on.But the population is down there.Probably due to coyotes.
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Post by davet on Feb 12, 2017 11:25:51 GMT -5
Well....you may want to get to those properties at the azz crack of dawn with a distress mouth call and see if you can call in a coyote. I will tell you that I have an electronic caller and those nebby little groundhogs will come all the way out of their holes and stand up to try and figure out what is "screaming" when I have the e-caller on. Sometimes......it's the perfect gift!!!
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Post by 3212 on Feb 12, 2017 16:53:30 GMT -5
They are really similar to rabbit and prepared the same way(s). I like to salt/pepper and coat with flour and fry in an iron skillet. The young ones are outstanding. Givem a try....I assure you will not be disappointed. Yep,Grandmom made them that way.Grassfed young groundhog.Whats not to like! |
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Post by fleroo on Feb 13, 2017 9:17:46 GMT -5
My late FIL was raised in the App. Mtns. with 12 other siblings. He told me young hogs were a staple of their diet back when. It wasn't a choice, they had to be.
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Post by 3212 on Feb 13, 2017 17:06:34 GMT -5
My late FIL was raised in the App. Mtns. with 12 other siblings. He told me young hogs were a staple of their diet back when. It wasn't a choice, they had to be. In our farming area it was mostly damage control.But,granddad said "If you get a young one bring it home".One summer my brother and I each killed 21 within sight of the house.Often we would see them from our yard and get the .22 and stalk the pasture grizzlies. |
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Post by Dutch on Feb 13, 2017 18:30:18 GMT -5
WOW! 21! Bet that was a ton of fun.
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Post by 3212 on Feb 13, 2017 21:48:47 GMT -5
WOW! 21! Bet that was a ton of fun. Thats when we had brushy fence rows and we tried to keep them from digging holes out in the fields.A few times before he sold the farm we took the tractor and wagon with milk cans to the creek,filled them with water and flooded hogs out of holes in the fields and pasture.When they came out they were hit with shovels.We had plugged their escape holes with dirt.Sounds rough but he didn't want broken legs on his animals.Might have to put them down. |
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Post by davet on Feb 14, 2017 17:31:54 GMT -5
I saw my first....2017....road kill groundhog today. And he was a big 'un too!!!
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Post by 3212 on Feb 15, 2017 9:14:30 GMT -5
I haven't shot at a groundhog in several years.I've watched the fields on my friends farm on a couple summer afternoons each year and the dens are not active.
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The shooting was fast 'n furious on the first 4. They all came outta a set of probably a dozen holes located in maybe a 20 foot area. It was a nice cool morning with the wind light 'n breezy. 
