Master Bedroom Woodchucks!

[7stw]

I'm getting a bit bored. It's a dreary day in central MD, so I'm getting creative. It's 185-200 yard chip-shot to the food plot from the MBR and there's a big fat chuck down there eating the deer fodder. A little overkill with the 6.5L and a 143 ELD-M but I don't care. If I don't get him tonight, I should have a crack at him in the AM. He's been coming out around 7:30AM. The report will double as an alarm clock. At least that's what I plan on telling her.View attachment 190288

YZ, I'm not far from you, I'm on the eastern shore. We've got plenty of hogs this year, but the population has been decreased in the past month or so by nine. Most have inhaled 123eldm's from 6.5cm. One bought it yesterday with 120bt from a 7-08, @ 227yards. Soybeans to be planted soon, and they will really come out then.
This has became my new addiction, but no fair, fro MBR!
Smoke um!

 

[25WSM]

Ground hogs can lay waste to big chunks of soy beans. I have farmers put little orange flags sticking up where the holes are. Then they call me. I don't mind helping out. I've seen 150 ft circles of dirt around holes from where they are all the beans.
Shep

 

[YZ-80]

YZ, I'm not far from you, I'm on the eastern shore. We've got plenty of hogs this year, but the population has been decreased in the past month or so by nine. Most have inhaled 123eldm's from 6.5cm. One bought it yesterday with 120bt from a 7-08, @ 227yards. Soybeans to be planted soon, and they will really come out then.
This has became my new addiction, but no fair, fro MBR!
Smoke um!

I envy you! I have access to another 150 acre farm and there are a few out there but my shot opportunities are limited due to the way the farm is laid out and rooflines in my backdrop. It never fails - they'll come out on the east side, I'll go prone with my bipod and remember that I can't shoot in that direction! By the time I can sneak to a better angle they hole up! One time I was out hunting a farm and I decided to pack it in and walk back to the truck. There they were, 2 fat chucks at 300 yards - right next to the barn IN Front of 500 gallon Diesel tank! Just my luck!

 

[7stw]

I envy you! I have access to another 150 acre farm and there are a few out there but my shot opportunities are limited due to the way the farm is laid out and rooflines in my backdrop. It never fails - they'll come out on the east side, I'll go prone with my bipod and remember that I can't shoot in that direction! By the time I can sneak to a better angle they hole up! One time I was out hunting a farm and I decided to pack it in and walk back to the truck. There they were, 2 fat chucks at 300 yards - right next to the barn IN Front of 500 gallon Diesel tank! Just my luck!

When I shot that one yesterday, at 227, I didn't have my phone with me. So I walked over to it, brought it back to the truck, my uncle took pics. When I got to it, it was on a ditch line, full of holes, and chucks. As I picked him up, I could see several that were peeking up out of their holes, but from here I was perched, from the road, and the grass getting tall, I couldn't see them anymore. But when the soybeans are in, they will be out!
That same farm , last year, 37 were taken. Didn't even dent them!

 

[7stw]

Ground hogs can lay waste to big chunks of soy beans. I have farmers put little orange flags sticking up where the holes are. Then they call me. I don't mind helping out. I've seen 150 ft circles of dirt around holes from where they are all the beans.
Shep

Between the deer, and groundhogs, a farmer friend of mine lost six acres, last year. Lots of crop damage permits here, both deer and groundhogs. Gh can mow down some beans for sure, and now they have hungry babies too!

 

[7stw]

Yep, that's 'purdy' right there...

Yup, it are!

 

[7stw]

We always had a rule (as we did not wish to exterminate all the chucks) to not kill them before mid May when the pups were able to survive.

Sadly, many did not follow that and most of the great chuck country of my youth (upstate NY) has very few if any.

Never could quite get around shooting a chuck and finding it was a lactating female as we all know the outcome of that.

Now you've got me thinking about that!
I will say that five of the ones I've killed so far, were bucks, but the remainder were females, one lactating ! Hmmmm. Food for thought!

 

[Mike S1]

We love our "rustic" covered deck, we live outside in the non-cold weather. My wife likes to have pretty things around her (I know, I am the exception). So here is just one corner of our paradise. The time stamp o nteh pictures is wrong - this was last year. Silly trail cam!

Now, if you look carefully, you can see a brave soul that decided it might be a good idea to expand his diet. And yes, the planter that was on the rail to the right of the table, he pushed off after pulling off all the leaves. HE loved the sweet potato vine!

Needless to say, my sweetheart said he needed to go, in the most expeditious manner. She is no hunter, and loves all things furry, to a point, and there was a glint in her eye when she told me this. She is Sicilian.

Backyard corner from 2 feet inside my office window, 22 Stinger from a Marlin 60. No neighbors said a thing.

 

[74honker]

We love our "rustic" covered deck, we live outside in the non-cold weather. My wife likes to have pretty things around her (I know, I am the exception). So here is just one corner of our paradise. The time stamp o nteh pictures is wrong - this was last year. Silly trail cam!

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Now, if you look carefully, you can see a brave soul that decided it might be a good idea to expand his diet. And yes, the planter that was on the rail to the right of the table, he pushed off after pulling off all the leaves. HE loved the sweet potato vine!

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Needless to say, my sweetheart said he needed to go, in the most expeditious manner. She is no hunter, and loves all things furry, to a point, and there was a glint in her eye when she told me this. She is Sicilian.

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Backyard corner from 2 feet inside my office window, 22 Stinger from a Marlin 60. No neighbors said a thing.

Them things have no shame do they. Male or female that one had some balls doing that.

 

[mod 700]

Them things have no shame do they. Male or female that one had some balls doing that.

Lol, played the game, payed the price....
Mike

 

[nicholasjohn]

We love our "rustic" covered deck, we live outside in the non-cold weather. My wife likes to have pretty things around her (I know, I am the exception). So here is just one corner of our paradise. The time stamp o nteh pictures is wrong - this was last year. Silly trail cam!

View attachment 193356

Now, if you look carefully, you can see a brave soul that decided it might be a good idea to expand his diet. And yes, the planter that was on the rail to the right of the table, he pushed off after pulling off all the leaves. HE loved the sweet potato vine!

View attachment 193357

Needless to say, my sweetheart said he needed to go, in the most expeditious manner. She is no hunter, and loves all things furry, to a point, and there was a glint in her eye when she told me this. She is Sicilian.

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Backyard corner from 2 feet inside my office window, 22 Stinger from a Marlin 60. No neighbors said a thing.

Looks like you fixed his wagon. That one was way too bold. Now you lady's back yard haven is all back to normal. That glint in the eye thing can be a bit spooky sometimes - my wife gets that too. Last time I saw "the look" was when we had a squirrel problem in our back yard. There was a bunny-hugger who lived right behind us who fed them peanuts. This attracted every squirrel in a square mile area into our yard, where the little monsters destroyed EVERYTHING. They buried the peanuts in own lawn, and it was all dug up like a bombing range most of the time. They chewed on everything, and were particularly hard on the drip irrigation system. Forget about the vegetable garden. One day, though, they crossed the line and ate a bunch of my wife's roses. BIG mistake.

First we tried squirrel repellant - the stuff with the hot peppers in it. They ate that like candy. I built cages around the roses bushes out of chicken wire, and they climbed them like a ladder. Now they could eat all the way to the top of the plant. They figured out that one of them wasn't heavy enough for their body weight to squash down the wire cage to where they could get to the flowers, but two of them were. So, they started operating in pairs. That was when she told me to kill them …….. slow-w-w-w-w-w-w-wly. I told her that was cruel, and she said do it any way you want to , but get rid of them. Well, the .177 pellet rifle has been living next to the back door ever since, and if I told you how many of the little b*****ds I've shot in the last ten years, you would never believe it. The neighbor who had been feeding them the peanuts moved away, and that was the end of the squirrel problem. We don't have chucks around here, which is a good thing. There are a few coons & possums, but they don't hurt anything, so we peacefully co-exist. So far, the coyotes have been staying out of everybody's hair, too. As soon as they start munching on people's kitty-cats, though, there will be that to deal with.

 

[YZ-80]

Not out of the MBR but scored on this Fat Mamma at 400 with the 6.5L. Not bad for an East Coast Long Range hunter in training! Couldn't have made the shot without the LRH braintrust helping me hone my reloading skills. 143 ELD-X on 36 grains of Varget. Dialed up 6 minutes. Life is good!

 

[7stw]

Not out of the MBR but scored on this Fat Mamma at 400 with the 6.5L. Not bad for an East Coast Long Range hunter in training! Couldn't have made the shot without the LRH braintrust helping me hone my reloading skills. 143 ELD-X on 36 grains of Varget. Dialed up 6 minutes. Life is good!

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Nice shot bubba. Gotta love varget. Try RL16. Awesome stuff,same bullets

Be safe!

 

[YZ-80]

Nice shot bubba. Gotta love varget. Try RL16. Awesome stuff,same bullets

Be safe!

Thanks! You know my other go-to powder for this gun is RL-15 with the 123 grain SST. I've also been told I'll get better speed with RL-17! I'm getting 2,740 out of the Varget. I'll look into RL-16 as well. Cheers!