Anybody Hunting Woodchucks Yet?

[frank bullitt]

Those arras caught my eye! My favorite colors, black $ yellow on white!

Now, brown &  red, on white, would look real cool too!   :D  

Good shootin to ya"

[hawkeye n pa]

I can watch two out the window as I type.  Pennsylvania hunting regulations will keep them safe today.

[Whitetail Addict]

Between the pics and a little bare ground here and there in the fields, I've been getting fired up. No bare ground this morning, It's all white again.        
I should know better, It's only the middle of March.   :rolleyes:

Bob

[Wudstix]

You guys are making my misty almost want to move back East.

[highlow]

Was thinking about what Producer said about letting them breed and raise the littluns' before going after them. However, I don't think we have any reason not to shoot "chucks" whenever we get the chance. They're like cockroaches. We aint ever gunna run out of them. They'll be here long after we're gone.

[reddogge]

Saw my first groundhog yesterday and shot my first one today. I don't believe in raising little ones since I've been trying to eradicate them for 25 years. The only good groundhog is a dead groundhog.

Saw him after I came home from work and he was in good spot for a stalk. Grabbed the Arrowmaster and the Morrison riser with BF Extreme limbs and slipped out the side door. Luckily the wood pile allowed me to get within 20 yards without detection. He went behind a fencepost with vines on it so I could get 5 more yards. Kneeling 15 yard shot with heavy right to left crosswind. Shot left due to wind and stiff 2016 shafts. Bow is so silent I had another 15 yard shot. Shot left again.

He sort of waddled down into the field and stopped at his hole and as I was retrieving my only two broadheads I took another shot of 30 yards right over his back. Down in the hole again.

Lost the last arrow in the grass field so I put a marker arrow where he sat and lay the bow on the ground by the hole and was searching for my arrow and he pops his head out looks at me and then back in. I went about 50 yards away and he came out of the hole fully almost sitting on my bow. I scared him back in and retrieved the bow and my only arrow and took a position on the backside of the hole.

He came out shortly and I made the 5 yard shot through the back but it didn't pin him to the ground. He lay there for a bit and slowly backed into the hole with my arrow in him leaving a copious blood trail. I wasn't too anxious to grab the business end of an arrow though so I let it go.

Got a shovel and started to dig. Hole was much too deep so chalked it up to lost 2016 arrow, Bear Razorhead and a picture of the sure to die groundhog. Good riddance to those two arrows anyway.

That should get your groundhog hunting juices flowing.

[Tony Sanders]

Hey Richard, glad you got a chance to shoot one already. Sorry to see him get away from you. But I have had that happen to me twice, where a Groundhog took the whole arrow down into the den with it. Probably not smart on my part, but I have on three occasions reached down into a den to pull out a groundhog, that expired before he got below the curvature of the den hole, after the arrow had blown through him.

  Tony

[reddogge]

Tony,
Yesterday I made up three more groundhog arrows out of old woodies so I'm ready for more action. I'm not risking good carbons on them.

Rich

[Whitetail Addict]

Sorry to hear he got away from you reddogge, but glad you had some action. We had some decent weather here last week, but It's back to winter now. It's 17* here now, with a nice 25-30 MPH breeze and 4' of snow in places. Not the best chuck hunting weather. Looks like I'll have to live vicariously through you guys for a while yet. Thanks for sharing.

Bob

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Saw my first one today on the NYS thruway poking his head out.