No, but I have. All they eat is grass. I give them to a buddy that makes trapping lures and bait. I also give him beaver castors and their oil sacs. It gives me free trapping lures by helping him collect ingredients. It tastes better than coon.Are you guys gonna eat them?
My neighbor hit a groundhog hole and rolled over his Farmall M.There was guy near where I chuck hunted that actually was killed when his tractor hit a woodchuck hole and flipped on him. It was pretty easy to get permission for a couple of years after that...
Back on my grandfather's farm, groundhogs caused a sinkhole in the back pasture so big you could bury a VW Bug or mini cooper in. Know he had at least one cow that snapped its leg when it went through a collapsing den.I have to admit, I never knew the destruction/terror they could cause. I've always left them alone if they weren't digging under buildings. I guess I outta flag some of the farmers down and get to practicing!
You sound like the guy that got me into handloading... entertained himself by developing loads to make the biggest mess of a jackrabbit he could. I think the most dramatic was a lightweight .44SPL hollowpoint pushed to just shy of overpressure out of a Marlin .44Mag. I've got a den near a retaing wall that's been driving me nuts over the last few years... I pop one or two with an airgun and they leave, then come back a few weeks later.Most of my pics are kinda graphic. I haven't shot one with a rimfire in years...
My buddy has an old 1800s garage with a dirt floor. It has one post in the middle that supports a beam that supports the roof. A miserable, stinkin, lousy groundhog got in there and guess where he dug a hole?? RIGHT UNDER THE POST! Yep, the post had no ground support so it dropped a couple feet which led to a chain reaction of damage to the building.I have to admit, I never knew the destruction/terror they could cause. I've always left them alone if they weren't digging under buildings. I guess I outta flag some of the farmers down and get to practicing!
You sound like the guy that got me into handloading... entertained himself by developing loads to make the biggest mess of a jackrabbit he could. I think the most dramatic was a lightweight .44SPL hollowpoint pushed to just shy of overpressure out of a Marlin .44Mag. I've got a den near a retaing wall that's been driving me nuts over the last few years... I pop one or two with an airgun and they leave, then come back a few weeks later.
there's a good, permanent solution for that. installing a dig barrier can keep any burrowing pests shy of ants depending how how fine a mesh you want to install is.You sound like the guy that got me into handloading... entertained himself by developing loads to make the biggest mess of a jackrabbit he could. I think the most dramatic was a lightweight .44SPL hollowpoint pushed to just shy of overpressure out of a Marlin .44Mag. I've got a den near a retaing wall that's been driving me nuts over the last few years... I pop one or two with an airgun and they leave, then come back a few weeks later.