Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: LeverActionman on June 17, 2010, 04:13:00 PM
-
Shot at my first groundhog today with my selfbow a little harder to hit than I had thought.I did hit right behind him though maybe I will get him next time.Anyone have pics of groundhogs to post.Thanks
-
Bowhunted them for the first time a couple years back. They are way harder to get a shot at with a longbow than I thought they would be.
I thought I was a pretty good still hunter. Deer are a piece of cake to get up on compared to a pasture poodle!
-
Lots of trees where I hunt so sneaking up on them is not so hard well at least till about 25 or 30 yards after that is real hard.
-
wait 'till they charge 'ya......
-
I grew up hunting them in Ohio with Bear Kodiak Mag. They are tough to kill. I lost a lot of arrows down the hole when the critter ran with my arrow. Only instant kill was one I made where arrow went into one ear and out the other.
I do not see many here in Alabama.
-
Loaded with 'em here. I'm gonna go out myself. Ever try a fish pole with them? Fun.
-
Originally posted by Spectre:
Loaded with 'em here. I'm gonna go out myself. Ever try a fish pole with them? Fun.
I know nothing..nothing I say!
Please enlighten me about groundhogs and fishing poles!
Thank you in advance!
YHS, Mudd
-
Originally posted by Mudd:
Originally posted by Spectre:
Loaded with 'em here. I'm gonna go out myself. Ever try a fish pole with them? Fun.
I know nothing..nothing I say!
Please enlighten me about groundhogs and fishing poles!
Thank you in advance!
YHS, Mudd [/b]
Get a medium action rod, maybe a 7 footer, and some 15lb test line. Take a lawn chair and a cooler full of your favorite beverages along. Tie a loop in the end(a slip) and lay the loop over the chuckhole, kick back and relax. I'll tell you what, when you get ahold of one, the fight is ON! LOL. Not to mention the looks that people give you when they see the crazy fishing in the middle of a pasture.
-
I never killed a g-hog with a bow but I killed plenty with a handgun when I was a youngster. The same method I used with a pistol should be deadly with a bow as well. I would sneak around old barns and old farm buildings during early afternoon and catch g-hogs out away from their dens feeding and they would raise up and stand there motionless. They would usually give me enough time to raise my pistol and take aim and shoot before they would bolt for their den. This worked well for short range hunting/stalking but it's much harder getting a shot off at close range when hunting fence rows and open hay fields and woods edges. They are very sharp and a great challenge with the bow.
-
Spectre ... That sounds like a hoot!!!
I think that I have a little advice for you.
I have found that those annoying voices don't bug me nearly as much since I started poking them with a Q-tip..lol You might give it a try too...LOL
YHS
God bless,Mudd
PS: I hope like heck you have a good sense of humor!!..lol
-
Here's a couple of pics of one I shot during deer season from my treestand. It was one of the few days it warmed up between heavy snow falls. He didn't make it to higher ground during the brief thaw! The snuffer didn't allow it!! It's the first animal I've ever taken with a long bow.
(http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/Conan_1883/0205101019.jpg) (http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/Conan_1883/0205101020.jpg)
-
After deer, they're one of my favorite targets!
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee84/fullerclan40/100_0298.jpg)
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee84/fullerclan40/178.jpg)
That old Savannah was pretty hard on the population.
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee84/fullerclan40/100_0438.jpg)
At 30 yds, this was the luckiest shot I ever made! When people say they're tuff, believe it! This one ran 15 yds with that hole!
-
Wohoo! Brett! How stinking cool is that? Way!
You done good B.O.B.!!
Thank you for posting those hero shots.
Your Humble Servant
God bless,Mudd
-
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/charlie/groundhog69.jpg) (http://www.tradgang.com/upload/charlie/rockchuck1a.jpg)
-
I get so excited at getting close and getting a shot I usually blow it. I skimmed an arrow off of ones head this year at 15 yards and missed a couple of more times.
-
Charlie Lamb for a man who speaks few words you sure do speak volumes brother!!!..lol
Thanks Charlie for posting those!
Your Humble Servant
God bless, Mudd
-
I have a video coming soon . . . :)
-
Originally posted by Spectre:
Loaded with 'em here. I'm gonna go out myself. Ever try a fish pole with them? Fun.
That is either the craziest or the coolest thing I have ever heard!!! You should film that . . .it would be entertaining!!
-
I missed 3 and lost 3 arrows.Two of them,I think I might have shaved some fur off them,it was that close.
-
Get a medium action rod, maybe a 7 footer, and some 15lb test line. Take a lawn chair and a cooler full of your favorite beverages along. Tie a loop in the end(a slip) and lay the loop over the chuckhole, kick back and relax. I'll tell you what, when you get ahold of one, the fight is ON! LOL. Not to mention the looks that people give you when they see the crazy fishing in the middle of a pasture.
I'm not one for causes but that one could be construed as animal cruelty. An arrow or bullet is at least a sporting attempt at a quick death.
-
Originally posted by Spectre:
Get a medium action rod, maybe a 7 footer, and some 15lb test line. Take a lawn chair and a cooler full of your favorite beverages along. Tie a loop in the end(a slip) and lay the loop over the chuckhole, kick back and relax. I'll tell you what, when you get ahold of one, the fight is ON! LOL. Not to mention the looks that people give you when they see the crazy fishing in the middle of a pasture. [/qb]
ROFL - what a riot. Someone has *got* to get that on video. :D
-
Here's one I clobbered this past deer season...
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff187/GingivitisKahn/20091017_ac_05.jpg)
As to the goundhog fishing method not being sporting - I dunno. Maybe we could try it w/ a fly rod. :-p
-
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/charlie/SilexGroundhog.jpg)
-
Great pics! I know where a big 'hog is holed up, I'm gonna try for him soon...
-
Yes stalking these guys are a blast. Me and my buddies try to do it once or twice a month through the summer. I've killed a couple.
I just got in from hunting them in a thunderstorm about an hour ago. I was on the edge of a pasture when I heard one up ahead doing a little distress grunt. As I cleared the trees a medium sized Coyote was tumbling this G-hog around not 25 yards away. I only hunt G-hogs with field tips and finish shot with Judos. (I'll explain why in a minute) The Coyote spotted me leaving the G-hog watch the retreat unaware of me there.
One shot a foot right, and the G-hog didn't budge or take his eyes of the running Yote. Second shot was spot on, and got my follow up shot with the Judo. Pretty cool to see this post while I'm still amped up about the encounters!
I use field points for the medium penetration. Never hit one and lost it. If I hit it, it always ends up dead and recovered. A field tip will 95% of the time penetrate so the arrow is equal on both sides. No matter how hard these guys try to get down their near by hole, its impossible for the running shish-ka-bob! A Judo does a fine job to finish them off.
-
Charlie from your last posted picture I think we could easily and rightly call you "Timex"!..lol
Why? You ask! I'll be glad to answer that!
Because I can tell that like a "Timex" you've taken a licking or two.... but your picture also shows that you've just kept on "ticking"!...lol
Thanks again Charlie for sharing with us!
YHS, Mudd
-
Yummy! They are delicious!
Although you probably think I'm nuts, especially since a while back I also said I ate beavers (and that was the end of the post on beavers).
-
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/charlie/GroundhogMagnusblunt.jpg) (http://www.tradgang.com/upload/charlie/rockchuck2a.jpg)
Mudd...you got that right! Been knocked down, beat up, run over,run hard and put away wet. When you're as dumb as me it helps to be tough.
:D
-
A local guy named Homer told me a story of how he and his brother used to "fish" for groundhogs with a belt. Back when they were kids they were too poor to buy bullets and meat was whatever you could catch, clobber, or hit with a rock.
They would run a hog down a hole and then start digging like mad with a shovel. Sometimes the den was shallow enough they could eventually get to the groundhog. One of them would go to the back side of the cornered hog and dangle his belt buckle into the hogs face. The hog would bite the buckle and get its teeth caught. Then the "fisherman" would rear back on the belt stretching the hogs head back against the hole. The other brother would then cut its throat with a knife. That had to be wild!
He said they ate a lot of groundhogs back then. And then he said "Coulda got ripped up pretty good doing something like that. But what did we know? We were just dumb kids". Classic!
-
I used to catch them when I was a teenager. I'd take my handy critter-catcher (referred to as CC, henceforth), position myself in our field and wait for a big juicy one to stray a little too far from it's burrow. After a mad dash and some deft CC wielding, I'd have my prize.
The key was to catch them far enough away from their burrows that they'd have to run. I say run, but they actually bound. And they won't do it for very long. Depending on how thick the grass is and how close you get to them, they'll stop a square off with you. They'll stomp and pop their teeth and create a fuss, but it's pretty easy to get a loop around them.
It does help to have a little brother or an idiot friend around to block their escape, though.
-
Since the Deer Elimination Program started here in PA the bowseason has become a joke (or challenge). Last year I saw 12 deer in 6 weeks of hard hunting and burned several vacation days in the process.
I got to thinking, I'd rather take vacation time now and hunt groundhogs than spend day after day freezing in a treestand seeing nothing this November. I took the last two Friday's off and I am really leaning hard toward doing it again this week. I've shot 6 so far this year and there's lots more to hunt. :)
Hunting sod poodles is about the "funnest" thing you can do with a stickbow!
-
Here is one I killed earlier this year. They are a great way for an easterner to practice their spot and stalk skills. If you can get to a field that was just bailed and still has the bails sitting in the field, you can get nonstop shooting all evening. I killed 23 two summers ago, mostly using this method.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e394/aje138/ghog.jpg)