That's no small feat with a 22!
He must have been an urban groundhog lol, it's a chore to get inside 100 yards on the wiley country one’s around here lol...
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He must have been an urban groundhog lol, it's a chore to get inside 100 yards on the wiley country one’s around here lol...
Heh! Thanks! I was looking for grays and crept up to a hickory tree I use as a brace/to break up my silhouette. Brought the rifle up and thought “Is that a beaver?” Then it clicked and I took the shot.I wouldn’t have though it possible if I hadn’t just done it. Spent my formative years in PA and would hear hushed (almost reverent) talk of taking chucks at 400 yards and further out.
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Around here it used to be very very popular, it was almost like trying to secure a plot of land to deer hunt on. My dad would even hunt farms of friends and family in neighboring counties, of course I was almost always along for the ride since about the age of 5 or so.
I learned right away that it's nearly impossible to get close to a groundhog in a wide open 250 acre bean or clover field lol..
Today I mostly hunt family land as most of the land I used to hunt has changed hands or has been parcelled out to build homes on.
I learned right away that it's nearly impossible to get close to a groundhog in a wide open 250 acre bean or clover field lol..
Today I mostly hunt family land as most of the land I used to hunt has changed hands or has been parcelled out to build homes on.
And the drought is over. I “thought” maybe they were getting wise to my tactics but birdseed makes ‘em dumb!
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BTW The CCI sub sonic HP 22s hit hard!
Mating season makes them take chances too. Three of them swarmed over my house one day, two males slow-speed chasing a female.
They got away, too. The cat and I are in disgrace.
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Another meatsicle for the freezer.
Sometimes, they just dig where they shouldn't and gotta go...
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Got one this weekend. I just wish they weren't so cute. Always remind me of the Winnie the Pooh movie, "Gopher".... he's not in the book you know!
I imagine you guys out there like Bill Murray. 
Close. I get a bit shaggier during duck season though.
Ha. Great picture.
He had better hope that one of the health benefits of hibiscus is reversing lead poisoning...
It maybe a miracle cure but how do you reverse hollow point poisoning?
It reverses you! (As in "inside out".)
Well, I got two more today. The first one was feeling cocky I guess. I drew down on him and had a dud. Worked the bolt while watching him like a hawk, got my bead and done the deed…
The second one was scurrying around in a Hickory tree and I popped as I saw him move thru an opening in the leaves. It was a bad shot that caught him between the fore legs and exited behind the right shoulder. He took off like a shot and I moved to follow but he ran straight at me and expired at my feet! As an aside, I have heard of the dominant males “barring” lesser males but never saw it until today…
The second one was scurrying around in a Hickory tree and I popped as I saw him move thru an opening in the leaves. It was a bad shot that caught him between the fore legs and exited behind the right shoulder. He took off like a shot and I moved to follow but he ran straight at me and expired at my feet! As an aside, I have heard of the dominant males “barring” lesser males but never saw it until today…
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