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Trojan 16 gauge

We just started seeing the occasional woodchuck up here. It’s not yet time to sit in the evenings and snipe those lawn grizzlies. You just made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! :rotf:

They do severe damage to young peach trees.
And Jack the dog does severe damage to the woodchucks :)

On the Ohio farm I grew up on, we had two dogs, a border collie mix (Pepper) and a terrier mix (Patches). On two or three ocassions, they would catch a groundhog away from its holes to have a Battle Royale! One would bite at the rear and try to distract it long enough for the other to get the kill bite behind the neck. These battles would go on for hours sometimes; exhaustion often set in and at times all three combatants would just stop, lay flat on their bellies and pant for 5 or so minutes. The groundhog probably figured it could not get away so just took the time to gather a second wind. Eventually the dogs got the advantage and finished off the battle. They were undefeated in the tag-team division!

Are ya saving some groundhogs for the Friday night feed ? Older black folks down here used to and maybe still do bake young groundhogs with apples or sweet potatoes . I’ve had several folks tell me that they were pretty tastey , I however have never tried grun sow :whistle:

Jack usually gets to them before I can put the shells in the gun.
When the woodchuck has met the afterlife, Jack will trot off, bury his prey, so that in bout a week he can come back and roll around on the carcass.
Now that is dog heaven.

Was in charge of a 40 acre farm/ estate the town bought for a park. A neighbors dog named Woody would show himself to the chuck who would dive down his hole. He would sneak to the side of the opposite of where the chuck saw him and lay with his jaws a few inchs from the hole. The chuck would always come up looking where he last saw the dog and with one lunge and a shake that was the end.
The family he belonged to had 13 kids and he guarded the little ones when they came to the playground we put in. No one went near those kids that he put himself between them and the kids. The oldest worked for me one summer and i was given the ok to approach the kids.
As time went on and the kids started school i only saw him when i had a chuck move in.