Ground Hogs

[Hay Dude]

Live trap right over the hole with some lettuce and cut apple for bait.

This was at my next door neighbor’s house June 19. Less than an hour after he set the trap.

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How dare you post pictures of my mother in law!

 

[bdhsfz6]

Ground Hogs digging next to house best way to rid myself of them

Got one with my pickup in the driveway this morning. He managed to dodge the front tire but not the rear.

 

[CaptFerd]

Used cat litter around the entrance. I mean litter that the cats have crapped and wissed in. They cant stand it and will vacate their home to get away from it.

 

[MossRoad]

How dare you post pictures of my mother in law!

Yikes!

I know your situation in that department is much different than mine.

 

[Oneil88]

Good ol' 10/22 is the best medicine for ground hogs.

 

[5030]

even skunks. They're not much fun in releasing them.

You know the 'trick' to releasing a skunk from a live trap?

 

[m7040]

Got one with my zero turn. He could not outrun it and I could turn quicker than he could. Was not pretty

 

[MossRoad]

You know the 'trick' to releasing a skunk from a live trap?

Put a tarp over it, and the skunk can't see you. No perceived threat, no spray. Then just feel for the latch through the tarp and open it. Pull the tarp and run like heck.

 

[Yander]

I used to trap groundhogs for fun as a kid along my farming neighbors fields. Used a leg hold trap. When using a leg hold you have to stake it far enough from the hole that they don't take your trap into the hold. Made that mistake once. I would ride my motorcycle around the area and look for where they were eating beans on the edge of a bean field. I would set a trap or two and come back the next day. Also trapped them in a neighbors barn. Something to do.

They were thick back then. Coyotes keep them controlled around here now. Almost never see them. Though I did shoot a young one this summer, in my yard. He was looking for a new home I suspect. I gave him a new home

 

[LD1]

I used to really enjoy hunting ground hogs. .22-250 then sorta downgraded and used a .223.

Still good go 300-350yds. And our gently rolling farmland here made for some fun shooting.

They used to be everywhere. Spring/early summer when beans were just a few inches tall, you could see everywhere they were active. Large dead areas in the bean fields around their holes. And half-circle areas along fencerows. Just ride around in the atv and spot one a few hundred yards away. They usually werent scared from that distance, but easy enough to reach out and touch them with a high power .22 caliber.

Now....they are scarce. Hardly see them anymore or even see signs of them in the fields. And when you do see one, they keep close to cover like old barns and structures. Coyotes have really put a hurting on their population for sure