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There is 34 acres.....
44pinshooter
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...of soy-beans around the garden, several acres of hay, Across the road is 40 acres of soy-beans, to the west is 13 acres of corn and to the east is 14 acres of alfalfa, so WHY is that #$&*&^% woodchuck eating everything in our garden?
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What ever you are growing tastes better....
Empty Space?
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Forbidden fruit. Or in this case, forbidden vegetables.
I've been battling the little farts ever since spring started. I think we are down to 6-7 so far. One of them dug a hole under my barn and pushed all the gravel out in the yard. The worst part is they are pretty smart for a rodent. No matter what I use to bait them, they manage to get it out of the trap without tripping it.
So far we have 2 dens under the front porch, 2 under the back porch, 3 under the mulch pile, and one under the barn. and I'm pretty sure most of them are interconnected.
A Shotgun works when I can sneak up on them., but they are very cautious and quick.
The movie, "Open Range" when Kevin Costner is in the stable and says something about leaving guns and ammo there to catch on the run if needed, is kinda' what we have here. Got several rifles in various places that when i see him / her don't have to go far to grab something. Almost had 'em yesterday. Was in the west field. Went and got a rifle and lost sight of 'em in the beans.
About a dozen or so years ago, neighbor to the east, built a new horse barn / toy barn, 48 X 72. Back half was his man cave / toy barn. For several years he fought the woodchucks digging under the concrete. He'd fill the hole and 2 days later there was a new one a foot or 2 away. He tried trapping, no luck. Then one day he went to put his John Deere front-end loader in the barn and a corner of the floor cracked and dropped 4 inches. Not a happy camper. The following weekend, it was him, piles of lettuce and a rifle just sitting there. He got them.
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funny, the one i have around my place doesn't bother any thing , he showes up every spring, hangs around all summer and then is gone , never see any holes . we talk to him out the windows if he gets close enough to the house and that usually makes him stay farther away. as long as he stays away from the buildings I'll leave him alone
Ask your neighbors what kind if chemicals they are using. 😁
Neve had a woodchuck problem, so im not much help here. Sounds like a medium conibear trap(220) should help. Along with 22(lr/mag, dealers choice).
Get the varmint rifle out and TCB.
They taste pretty good if they are young. A pressure cooker does a good job on them. Or you can skin and gut them trow em on the grill for a few and feed them to the dogs.
A few years ago a woodchuck showed up on my place & started digging holes & eating stuff. We live on a lake in suburban Minneapolis, residential area with the lake out back. Couple days later it was in the backyard during a thunderstorm. Retrieved my .22, went in the attic upstairs & opened the window unnoticed by the chuck. Neighbors never noticed an extra crack of thunder.....
The last 2 I got were shot out of one of the bedroom windows. Scared the crap out of the wife the first time I did it.
Joe
Turn your place into a golf course and get a groundskeeper.
I had a chuck in the garden and i put the live trap close to his hole, put some carrots and raw corn cob in there and he went for it. Moved him up to the park and let him go, then another chuck moves in, and I caught that one too, let them go a mile up in the park. I noticed the park had chuck mounds all over, oh oh. Now I have rabbits and they went down each row and ate all the leaves off my green beans. Rabbits will not go in a live trap, too scared of it, i have to put chicken wire around my plants. I did * one rabbit last year with the pellet gun, but now i have 3 rabbits.
I've caught 2 bunnies in traps over the years. They don't bother anything, so I released them.
Joe
what would you rather have???? soy beans and alfalfa or tomatoes and peppers???????? especially when there is less chance a coyote will sneak up on your back........
A few years ago had one living out by are old cow barn. It would come out eat some grass then go back to the barn. Couple weeks later it came out but this time one of it’s babies came out with it, so I called the wife and we watched them, after about and hour their were five or six of them. I thought this will be interesting to watch how the mother teaches them. There’s no teaching them,… their like rats,…..they spotted the garden and were on it like tiny Tim going for a ham a Christmas. It was like a scene out of a movie, I’m blasting away, the wife bring me more ammunition. We were lucky to have survived it. Ground Hogs are the enemy! ….Way into that! …Shoot them in the belly! You know I almost pity those poor dumb vegetable eaters if they come around here again.
"Not golfers, you great gette !" ... 🤣
Now that is some bad groundhogs that start climbing into your bedroom window after you. I believe I'd close that window off. I don't blame your wife I'd be afraid of them dang things too climbing into the house like that. 😉
What I did was remove the screen, then open the window enough to sight my shotgun out to beside the barn and blast them. They did not try to enter the house.
Joe
Clearly because you've not shot him.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Just a buffet not plain food in the fields
Buy him pizza, then he will leave the garden alone.