Stupid Woodchuck

NerdHick · 04-17-2008, 06:46 AM

Got one of the dumb things living under my yard on the north side of the house...last night I'm walking back inside and I see him...

I run and grab the first thing I can find, my XT and an arrow from deer season...tear apart my 3D quiver grap a release and head out.

I start the stalk...I can't get a shot off the porch so I have to back track and go around. I sneak the back side of the porch and I see him...I'm thinking its an easy 20 yd shot...I let the arrow fly...he takes off and stops...clean miss low, how could that be???

I run in the house get another arrow and go back outside, he's in the hole, just the top of his head is sticking up...I put the 20 pin just over his head and let her fly...I think I gave his a buzz cut cause he was GONE after that shot.

I'm gonna be ready with the DLD tonight!!! Right before/after supper seems to be when he likes to come up for food...MY YARD! He must die!

I've tried posion, NOPE
I've tried flooding, NOPE
I set a trap, NOPE

I'll give myself one more try with the bow and then I'm breaking out the boomers!

222 and woodchuck = FUN!

MichiganHunter · 04-17-2008, 08:14 AM

the ones that i get in my back yard dont let you get that close. if they even think im around they go running. i have sneek out the door and shot them with my .22 thru the railing of the second floor.

Jay Are · 04-17-2008, 10:02 AM

I had Osama living in a cave near the house last year. Those critters are tough to get... but are worth the chase.

jdawg240 · 04-17-2008, 10:03 AM

I dispise all things named woodchuck..I tore my ankle up bad when one undermined the dirt floor in one of the cattle barns a few years back and I found it the hard way.. Good luck I hope you kill them all!!!!!!!!!!!!

pred8er · 04-17-2008, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jdawg240

I dispise all things named woodchuck..I tore my ankle up bad when one undermined the dirt floor in one of the cattle barns a few years back and I found it the hard way.. Good luck I hope you kill them all!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone ever try eating one? I heard some guys last week talking about it and they said it wasn't too bad, don't know if they was pulling my leg or not.

trussoni · 04-17-2008, 05:41 PM

that would be like eating a rat, well a squirrell is a rat when you get right down to it aint it?

Holy Smokes · 04-17-2008, 07:40 PM

Now boys round these here parts we call them critters
ground hogs
They do eat pretty good
they just eat grasses and fruit
just pear boil em till tender and then put em in a roasting pan
seasoned with worcheister sauce, pepper, salt
put in some oinons ,taters, carrots ,and bake till veggires are done
you can put BBQ suace if you desire
oh I shoot em with a .17 cal
Enjoy

BUNNYMAN · 04-17-2008, 07:43 PM

Hey smokes the "ground hogs" you have a much smaller than, the Woodchucks we have here.......

trussoni · 04-17-2008, 08:25 PM

my woodchucks are bigger than your woodchucks!!!

BUNNYMAN · 04-17-2008, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by trussoni

my woodchucks are bigger than your woodchucks!!!

dude thats not what I ment......

I dont think, they are the same creature

trussoni · 04-17-2008, 08:29 PM

could be yaneverknow anyways i was just joking woodchucks are most likely pretty standard in size unless they are eating toxic waste or something.

NerdHick · 04-17-2008, 08:36 PM

The fat sob was too scared to come out tonight! I'll have to try again tomorrow night...

trussoni · 04-17-2008, 08:46 PM

he wasnt scared he was sharpening his teeth

archer1983 · 04-17-2008, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by NerdHick

Stupid Woodchuck

Shoot it.

ohbowhntr · 04-17-2008, 09:52 PM

Have a rangefinder by chance??? Better start practicing guestimating ranges. I've set the first pin at 24 yds on my last 3 bows, all high 260 to low 270fps set-ups shooting 420gr arrows. Not more than 2-2.5" high from 5-25 yds, anything a little farther to about 28yds, I spit pins (second pins are set at 32yds), 28-35yds, I hold 32yd pin right on. My set-up isn't the usual set-up, but it also works quite well for me, therefore, I've stuck with it.

wp_bowmaster · 04-17-2008, 09:55 PM

I shot one a couple weeks ago with my longbow. They are fun to shoot!!! Good Luck!!!!

J.Blay · 04-18-2008, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ohbowhntr

Have a rangefinder by chance??? Better start practicing guestimating ranges. I've set the first pin at 24 yds on my last 3 bows, all high 260 to low 270fps set-ups shooting 420gr arrows. Not more than 2-2.5" high from 5-25 yds, anything a little farther to about 28yds, I spit pins (second pins are set at 32yds), 28-35yds, I hold 32yd pin right on. My set-up isn't the usual set-up, but it also works quite well for me, therefore, I've stuck with it.

Good idea, I think I'll try it. I'm set at 20 and 40 now.

trussoni · 04-18-2008, 09:40 AM

mine is set from 10-50 i think i got too many pins to be honest about it.

Holy Smokes · 04-18-2008, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by BUNNYMAN

dude thats not what I ment......

I dont think, they are the same creature

I think they are tha same critter bman for I had a neighbor that called me one day and she was from Maine and said tha woodchuck is in the garden
,she wanted me to take him out which I did with a 7mm from her roof outside a patio door.
Now boys I must admitt when I here one of these fellars called a woodchuck i kindly git a little tickled at it being called a WC

ohbowhntr · 04-18-2008, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by trussoni

mine is set from 10-50 i think i got too many pins to be honest about it.

No real need for a 10yd pin with most modern set-ups. Now I have a 60# older Hoyt that is more than anything a "teaching bow" and I set the top pin at 20yds on it, which I also would do for hunting, but I'm only getting mid 250's fps out of it, therefore it makes good sense to set the top pin at 20, giving it roughly 2" of rise and fall after it rises to zero at about 5yds out.

trussoni · 04-18-2008, 05:23 PM

it was either have a ten yard pin or a sixty yard pin figured odds of shooting ten are better than shooting sixty

ohbowhntr · 04-19-2008, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by trussoni

it was either have a ten yard pin or a sixty yard pin figured odds of shooting ten are better than shooting sixty

Unless your set-up is REALLLY SLLLLOOOOW, you only have about 1-1.5" of variation from your POI between 10 and 20 yds, therefore, you're just as well off to go for a 20yd pin, and vary the gaps as to stack pins on top of each other, further obstructing your view. I set my pins a little different because I'm trying to avoid mistake I've made in the past. But lots of guys start at 20-25yds. for their top pin, because MANY set-ups are fast enough that you really don't need anything before that.

trussoni · 04-19-2008, 07:46 PM

i dont think its slow but it could be slow or maybe im slow and im too slow to know my bow is slow

NerdHick · 04-19-2008, 07:47 PM

BACK ON TOPIC!

Here's a story of a woodchuck that won't be coming out of his hole anymore!!!

BUNNYMAN · 04-19-2008, 07:52 PM

feeling froggy after the IBO shoot huh??

NerdHick · 04-19-2008, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by BUNNYMAN

feeling froggy after the IBO shoot huh??

10-4 on that...

finished supper, put my plate in the sink, looked out the window and snagged the ol'XT...let a GT rip with a sonic on the end!!!

BUNNYMAN · 04-19-2008, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by NerdHick

10-4 on that...

finished supper, put my plate in the sink, looked out the window and snagged the ol'XT...let a GT rip with a sonic on the end!!!

so which bow did you take to the IBO??

NerdHick · 04-19-2008, 08:10 PM

Had the DLD in the truck...had her at the IBO...

XT was hanging on the wall in the dinning room!

No redneck jokes!!!!

BUNNYMAN · 04-19-2008, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by NerdHick

Had the DLD in the truck...had her at the IBO...

XT was hanging on the wall in the dinning room!

No redneck jokes!!!!

hanging the dinner getter in the dinner room, huh??

J.C. · 04-19-2008, 08:25 PM

reach in there and get him.....

BUNNYMAN · 04-19-2008, 08:46 PM

http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/mammals/woodchuck/

NerdHick · 04-20-2008, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by J.C.

reach in there and get him.....

Don't care how far down or not he might be, I'm not going to stick my hand down that hole!! I need my fingers to type!!!

trussoni · 04-20-2008, 11:03 AM

following the exploits of the mighty woodchuck has made me laugh every day lately thanks.

Holy Smokes · 04-20-2008, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by NerdHick

Don't care how far down or not he might be, I'm not going to stick my hand down that hole!! I need my fingers to type!!!

take you a green limb and tie a treble hook on the very end of it and fish it down in tha hole and when you hit him twist tha limb on him so as to hook him and pull him out
thats how Billys do it.

Dooby · 04-20-2008, 07:36 PM

Or use a shovel and dig him out....but if you do...

please oh please send pictures. I want to tell my wife that's how we hunt ground squirrels in Missouri. You shoot them...then you have to dig them out with a backhoe.