Groundhogs

[Boone the Hunter]

make shure you check regs. i got in trouble one time thinking there were know rules, because there big smelly rodents, here in MI you need to have a small game license. I usually find them around buildings on the edge of town, if you drive around till you see one, then ask permission most people will let you go after them with a bow.

[MikeW]

Did I miss any?

Marmot, Rock Chuck & Target
    :D

[frank bullitt]

JC, I'm hoping to get the presure cooker out! B. Glass, chucks and carp, your pulling at my heart, no bowstrings. Bowfishing is one of my favs. Anyone shoot suckers? It's about time for the run! Great things in late April! Rooms, Turkeys, Suckers, Spring in general etc. etc. oh and my birthday, and not in that order!

[Bullet_Bob]

String is great tx. But I'm waiting on a new bow a Black Swan Hybrid. (if it ever gets here lol)

[Col]

C'mon over.  I've smartened-up the ones that're left.  Neighbors cheer when they hear my 'whoop!' (they like their hydrangeas and nasturtiums, I like my vegetable garden--so do the 'hogs).

[Frank Warnke]

It's finally feeling like spring here is SE PA.  Saw some hogs last weekend digging up some of our fields.  Need to get out soon and do something about it.  

Here is one from last year.

 

[frank bullitt]

Frank , that's what I want to see! Thank you! Nice looking bow too. What make, like that riser!
  Going out in a liitle to do some scoutin for my son's youth hunt. Maybe find some rooms and do some stumping or shoot some ground squirrels.
   Keep the photos coming guys and gals. And good shootin to all, Steve

[Dave Bowers]

Me and my buddy went out yesterday and had a good day. My friend stuck a nice ground hog, but wrestled around and drug his arrow done its hole. We tried to dig him out, but just could find him.
I was able to put a great stalk on a nice whistle pig from about 150 yards. I got well within bow range; ten yards actually. But my shot was a touch too high and I shot over him.

Here's a pic of one I got last year with my new bow.

 

[Recurve50 LBS]

They all moved into suburbia New Jersey.  

[frank bullitt]

Sweet, Dave thanks for the pic! Recurve 50 that is true around here, they have adapted to the city, Highway right-aways and ditches. I see one hog sitting on a culvert top waving to traffic at the edge of town, all the time. Drive By? Keep the pics coming, Steve

[blind one]

We have 6 of them in our backyard. We have railroad tracks behind the house and they have their tunnels all over back there. The wife and I sit out back and watch them all the time. Our son wont let me shoot them because he was born on groundhog day. I'll get somes pictures next time they are out there.Its only 40 yards to where they come out......Roy

[frank bullitt]

Wow, can't believe it's been over 5 years since I posted this topic!
 
Guess who's eating 'hog!   :D

[Slickhead]

I see a lot in Ohio
dont hunt them anymore. Use to with a gun, but now I let them be.

[Red Beastmaster]

frank,

Quite a few G-hogs are taking harp lessons in hog heaven since you first posted this thread.  

I'm having a rough season so far this year. I'm only 2 for 15, not a good batting average. I found two dumb ones that let me get close but most of my shots have been at 30-40 yards. I took a 105yd shot at a true monster last evening and fell short. I've been after this guy for a couple years and this is as close as I can get.

[ishoot4thrills]

Like I said 5 years ago, lol, a good way to stalk them is to sneak around old barns and outbuildings and catch one feasting on clover and nab him before he takes off running to his hole, usually underneath the foundation at the side of the barn.

If he gets to his hole before you can get a shot off, just find a good hiding place and wait for him to come back out of his hole.

It's very difficult to get within bow range in the open fields if you choose to spot and stalk. I would much rather setup near their hole and wait for him to come out.

[Dan bree]

What a great  posts.   Boy it brings back great memories . Hunted them hard back in the 70s.  Up Montana mountain in nj      And the gap.   Buts and bows. Archery shop had a contest very year winner would get a free hunt  somewhere !   Best trick we had was in the sommer when we had tans was to take are shirts off  and  stalk. Them like browsing deer  we were the same color  . Got real close and when they stood up like little bears  we shot.   Bear Kodak  1966. 2219s.  And oo3 heads. On. Microflite shafts.    Man take me back please. ,

[frank bullitt]

That's a cool story, Dan! Love to hear different ways to stalk and hunt!

Ate the liver and heart last night, and as Andy would say, Ummmm, Goooood!