groundhogs
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Topic: groundhogs
Posted By: screwloose
Subject: groundhogs
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 6:03pm
| I've taken care of 9 and have 8 more that I know of to go on the first 10 acres out of 95. |
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 6:08pm
Cook em up like squirrel, Supposed to be GOOD eatin 
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Posted By: screwloose
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 6:28pm
| Yeah they are related to squirrels, wait I hate squirrel stew. I could never get used to seeing that rat size carcass floating around in the stew. YUCK |
Posted By: Randy WI
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 6:31pm
| Young ones are best and remove all of the fat we roasted ours and they were pretty good. Randy |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 6:43pm
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Easy to catch. All you need to do is put salt on their tails. |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 6:49pm
Never heard that one what does it do? My grandfather always said just brake their nose and they will bleed to death I always figured he wanted to know if we would run around chasing them with a hoe. |
DougS wrote:Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 9:32pm
| Ground hog traps and bleach is what keeps them down the best.... My 2 cents. |
Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 9:55pm
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22.250 works quite swell. Have never been able to eat any since there is nothing left.
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 9:59pm
| tannerite |
Posted By: 427435
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2016 at 10:36pm
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Some people call them wood chucks. They can sure do a number on vegetable garden!! We've got houses around us so a rifle is out. Twelve gauge works fine, however.  ------------- Mark B10 Allis, 917 Allis, 7116 Simplicity, 7790 Simplicity Diesel, GTH-L Simplicity Ignorance is curable-----stupidity is not. |
Posted By: Dave Everett
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2016 at 8:29am
| I knew a guy in PA used a riding mower, they used to hunker down then he got em. 30. cal carbine works quite well also if you surprise em |
Posted By: alleyyooper
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2016 at 8:34am
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We call them whistle pigs, 22 mag or 22 hornet with a bit more range. Very good eating since they are vegans. MARTY'S WHISTLE PIG DELIGHT 1 young groundhog 3 apples, halved 1 can sliced pineapple Salt & Pepper Clean groundhog thoroughly, leaving whole. Parboil until meat is beginning to get tender. Remove and stuff with apples. Garnish with salt and pepper all over the groundhog and then place in brown 'n bag. Cook at 300 degrees until "WHISTLER" is browned. Whistle pig Stew 1 woodchuck 2 onions, sliced 1/2 cup celery, sliced Flour Vinegar and water Salt and pepper Cloves Clean woodchuck; remove glands; cut into serving pieces. Soak overnight in a solution of equal parts of water and vinegar with addition of one sliced onion and a little salt. Drain, wash, and wipe. Parboil 20 minutes, drain, and cover with fresh boiling water. Add one sliced onion, celery, a few cloves, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook until tender; thicken gravy with flour. Al
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2016 at 9:05am
Never had squirrel stew, yuck. Clean it quarter it and boil it till tender. A pressure cooker works well for the old tough ones. Skim off the scum that rises as you boil it and once tender, take it out and fry it in some butter. I soak em overnight at least, in some vinegar salt water before boiling. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2016 at 1:55pm
| We call them woodchucks out here. But I remember we used to get them in the hay fields. My father had a friend that worked for the Railroad, and he would give us railroad flares. Light one up, shove it in the hole as deep as possible, and fill their hole with dirt and level it out. Kept them under control. Not sure why we don't have them anymore-- coyotes and fox population is way up now so maybe that is keeping them out of the hayfields? |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2016 at 8:00pm
| Foxes will get the small ones female foxes will even get the big ones some of the female foxes are pretty big. I had alot of them here but them the foxes can back and now you only see a few around the house. |
Posted By: GARY(OH/IN)
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2016 at 11:11pm
| After you all get those ground hogs stewed up the best way to serve them is out in the back yard to the dogs. |