Official 2018 Woodchuck Thread

BossmanPJ · May 26, 2018

engineerbrian said:
I will call BS unless there is a foot in the picture

I’ll do you one better Sir. When I get it I’ll give you a shot of my foot in a boot and without a boot. I may even write MDS on my ugly foot.

BossmanPJ · May 26, 2018

While we are waiting on the big one to appear over the next few days.....

Has anyone else shot a groundhog and know damn well you hit it, but no blood on the ground and it ran back to its hole to die? Happened to me with a little one earlier in the week. About a 40 yard shot and hit it so hard it rolled. Then ran off to the hole and haven’t seen it since.

engineerbrian · May 26, 2018

BossmanPJ said:
While we are waiting on the big one to appear over the next few days.....

Has anyone else shot a groundhog and know damn well you hit it, but no blood on the ground and it ran back to its hole to die? Happened to me with a little one earlier in the week. About a 40 yard shot and hit it so hard it rolled. Then ran off to the hole and haven’t seen it since.

Its happened to me a few times, but I was using a 22 so i could hear the bullet hit. No blood and no groundhog to show for it, but i know i hit it.

d33rhunt3r · May 27, 2018

BossmanPJ said:
While we are waiting on the big one to appear over the next few days.....

Has anyone else shot a groundhog and know damn well you hit it, but no blood on the ground and it ran back to its hole to die? Happened to me with a little one earlier in the week. About a 40 yard shot and hit it so hard it rolled. Then ran off to the hole and haven’t seen it since.

I've tagged one with a 308, it rolled about 5 feet and lay there. As I was walking up to it, it took off sprinting like nothing happened to it. There was no blood, no guts. Weirdest thing I've seen

ted76 · May 27, 2018

BossmanPJ said:
While we are waiting on the big one to appear over the next few days.....

Has anyone else shot a groundhog and know damn well you hit it, but no blood on the ground and it ran back to its hole to die? Happened to me with a little one earlier in the week. About a 40 yard shot and hit it so hard it rolled. Then ran off to the hole and haven’t seen it since.

Before I bought a .243 or .223 bolt gun, I used to hunt them with a 30-06 with 110 grain hand loads, I had many that received a sold hit, run and make it back to their hole, sometimes leaving no trail of blood, sometimes leaving internal body parts at the location of impact. These were shots that were several hundred yards away, with my hunting partner watching through their scope. At less then 50 yards, the ground hogs tended to turn inside out.

outrider58 · May 27, 2018

BossmanPJ said:
While we are waiting on the big one to appear over the next few days.....

Has anyone else shot a groundhog and know damn well you hit it, but no blood on the ground and it ran back to its hole to die? Happened to me with a little one earlier in the week. About a 40 yard shot and hit it so hard it rolled. Then ran off to the hole and haven’t seen it since.

Happened to me with my bow last fall.

BossmanPJ · May 27, 2018

engineerbrian said:
Its happened to me a few times, but I was using a 22 so i could hear the bullet hit. No blood and no groundhog to show for it, but i know i hit it.

d33rhunt3r said:
I've tagged one with a 308, it rolled about 5 feet and lay there. As I was walking up to it, it took off sprinting like nothing happened to it. There was no blood, no guts. Weirdest thing I've seen

ted76 said:
Before I bought a .243 or .223 bolt gun, I used to hunt them with a 30-06 with 110 grain hand loads, I had many that received a sold hit, run and make it back to their hole, sometimes leaving no trail of blood, sometimes leaving internal body parts at the location of impact. These were shots that were several hundred yards away, with my hunting partner watching through their scope. At less then 50 yards, the ground hogs tended to turn inside out.

outrider58 said:
Happened to me with my bow last fall.

The little one blew my mind. I hit it at 40 yards or so with a 158gr HP and it actually rolled. Then bounced around a little and ran off. Couldn’t believe it.

BossmanPJ · May 27, 2018

Got another little one tonight. 50 yards offhand 38 Special +P out of my Henry. Turned it inside out..... photo is obviously exit side.

outrider58 · May 27, 2018

BossmanPJ said:
Got another little one tonight. 50 yards offhand 38 Special +P out of my Henry. Turned it inside out..... photo is obviously exit side.

Nice!

I just spied a big ol' buck pig in my back yard tonight. I was going out to feed my smoker and he jumped out from under my weeping mulberry tree(one of their favorite eats). My bow is now at the ready, sitting on my couch.

To be continued...

engineerbrian · May 27, 2018

BossmanPJ said:
Got another little one tonight. 50 yards offhand 38 Special +P out of my Henry. Turned it inside out..... photo is obviously exit side.

Nice!

I'm going out again tomorrow :thumbsup:

BossmanPJ · May 27, 2018

engineerbrian said:
Nice!

I'm going out again tomorrow

Make sure you provide a boot in the photo as I have.

Racer Doug14 · May 27, 2018

I've only used 17hmr and 22lr. But I've hit them with 17hmr and sometimes never find an entry wound. Looks like they had a massive stroke. That 17hmr just grenades in them when I get a center mass hit.

BossmanPJ · May 27, 2018

Racer Doug14 said:
I've only used 17hmr and 22lr. But I've hit them with 17hmr and sometimes never find an entry wound. Looks like they had a massive stroke. That 17hmr just grenades in them when I get a center mass hit.

Last year I got two with my Golden Boy .22. It did it’s job but the 22lr just didn’t kill them quick enough for me. The bigger of the two required a followup shot. So I switched to my Big Boy and 38 Special/357 seems to do the trick nicely.

I had a 17 but sold it before I saw any groundhogs to use it on last year.

J Beard · May 28, 2018

30+ years ago I watched a buddy of mine head shoot one with a .22Lr, flipped it over backwards. As we were walking up to inspect the kill it got up shook its head and disappeared down into the ground.
About a year later his dog (shepherd wolf mix) who liked to hunt dropped a dead hog at the back doorstep with a skunk stripe scar between its ears :lol2:

I can't imagine the headache that G-hog had that day.

noddaz · May 28, 2018

I wouldn't say I am a bad shot

But Saturday I tried to shoot a chuck at work with my phone... And missed!

noddaz

outrider58 · May 28, 2018

noddaz said:
But Saturday I tried to shoot a chuck at work with my phone... And missed!

noddaz

Phones usually bounce off them anyway.

budman93 · May 28, 2018

I've gotten two so far this year. The one in the tall grass at about 60 yards and the other one at about 30.

BossmanPJ · May 30, 2018

budman93 said:
I've gotten two so far this year. The one in the tall grass at about 60 yards and the other one at about 30.

I miss my Mark ii.

boothdoc · May 30, 2018

New Windsor version

Here is my contribution.
9mm 92A1 from 25yrds

outrider58 · Jun 10, 2018

Well, I just center-punched one with my bow. I've been after him for a week or so. Unfortunately, he darted under my ground-level deck. Hopefully he's deep enough under ground so as no to stink the place up much...I hope. :cool:

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