Groundhog ?? now what ???

Dutchman · May 20, 2016

I discover there is a groundhog about 100 feet from where my garden is going to be ... found a hole and seen it a couple of times ... now I think it had babies cause I see small ones ...

Question : How can I get rid of it ?? when I have the 22 I don't see anything ... is there a poison I can treat them too ???

I don't know if they will brother the garden , cause I'm not sure what they eat ... they look like RAT'S and I can"t stand rats ..

Any advice will be appreciate ..... THANKS ..... mark

SCUBAInstr · May 20, 2016

I got the same problem. It (only 1 have I seen) has destroyed lettuce, cilantro, dill and a whole row of cucumber plants. Even chewed on a couple tomato plants. I put up an electric fence about 6" off the ground. Seems to have worked at this point. Someday I will catch his furry little a$$ out there and have the 12 gauge with me....

Let me know what you do....

Tommy D.

WellWorn · May 20, 2016

Oversize ground rats that eat gardens and bust axles on loaded wagons. If you don't have pets around, a conibear set in the hole tends to remove the problem. May not be legal in all locations, so check with local regulators as necessary.

HALGETIT · May 20, 2016

They will wreck a garden. have destroyed tomatoes by biting out chunks. pumpkins by chewing off outside And just about anything they can sink teeth into. Suggest leghold traps if possible. I myself have been trying to rid myself of one for years. good luck and good hunting. let us know how you got rid of it.

old · May 20, 2016

I can tell you 1000% sure that they will harm a garden. I have had them climb up on my green bean fence and sit and eat the plants and beans. Also had them take whole heads of cabbage and sit and eat them. If you know where the hole is you might be able to put a hav-a-hart trap in front of the hole is such a way it has to go in to get out but be for sure he or she has a back door so that may or may not work. By the way they make a pretty good bar-b-que if done right and I have the recipe

Mike Groom · May 20, 2016

See if you can borrow a large live trap-(about 1 foot by 2 1/2 foot)use lettuce or melon and catch it and put a bullet in it's head.Don't relocate it nobody else wants it either!

Jim in Ma. · May 20, 2016

If you can buy them in your area, Woodchuck bombs work best. They look like a big firecracker. Lite it , throe it down the hole. Then with a shovel cover the hole with dirt and anywhere you see smoke exiting the ground. done deal!!!

old popper · May 20, 2016

Mark, they are pretty cagy critters. A couple of years ago I saw one in my back yard. I ignored him that day, but loaded up the .22 Hornet and put it by my door. A few days later I looked out the kitchen window and saw him again. I sneaked out the door, and poked the Hornet around the corner. BANG! .22 Hornet 1......groundhog 0 .

SweetFeet · May 20, 2016

Dutchman,

Live trap with a chunk of cantaloupe...

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Then dispatch with .22

Wheatfarmer · May 20, 2016

I shoot over 40 a year. I have also put bubble gum in their hole. Was told they choke on it. We have also used the smoke bombs. We are getting less of them, but still try and move in.

Wheatfarmer · May 20, 2016

I shoot over 30 of them a year with a 22 and scope. We have also put Bubble gum down their hole. They say they choke on it. Neighbor shoots them with a 20 Ga from a RTV. We have used the Smoke bombs too. they are so thick on the County road we are all hunting with our car/trucks. YOU NEED TO WIPE THEM OUT NOW.

mj · May 20, 2016

(quoted from post at 13:02:54 05/20/16) I shoot over 40 a year. I have also put bubble gum in their hole. Was told they choke on it. We have also used the smoke bombs. We are getting less of them, but still try and move in.

Yep- bubblegum works on prairie dogs, so maybe............

Traditional Farmer · May 20, 2016

If you can't get them road flares work pretty good too.

Deere Scotty · May 20, 2016

Get a big dog! Have a Golden Lab that just loves to go after groundhogs. She will sit way back from the hole, & when one starts to come out... Within a few seconds she's on it, & its fun just to sit back & watch the dirt fly!

old · May 20, 2016

I've caught more then one by setting a live trpa down in such a way it sees a cabbage plant behind it. They walk into the trap trying to get to the cabbage and they get trapped

DoubleR · May 20, 2016

Get a conibear 220 trap.

Greg K · May 20, 2016

Fill the hole with water and wait with 22

Steve@Advance · May 20, 2016

Watch Caddyshack, follow example!

JK2 · May 20, 2016

Throw a handful or two of bubble gum down the hole, paper and all. A day or two later, the paper will be laying out on the ground but you won't see the groundhog again. It has worked for me several times & for neighbors too.

640inOhio · May 20, 2016

've always used a live trap with apples/veggies. Then put a .22 in the head. Or dump 'em out and give it a had start. 8 of them last year.

Tom OConnor · May 20, 2016

If you have a tank of anhydrous ammonia available to you, make a short hose that fits the coupling and use that to eliminate them. Very effective and a gallon of liquid or so and then put a shovel or two of dirt over the hole and you will never see anything that was in that hole ever come out again. A rifle with a scope will also work but I have never had the patience to wait till they were ready to come out of their hole. They love nice gardens and little soybean plants.

TL (Va) · May 20, 2016

(quoted from post at 21:54:43 05/20/16) Get a conibear 220 trap.

Yep, surefire way to catch and kill. Put the trap right over the hole and catch them coming or going. If there is more than one hole, cover all but one hole and put the trap over the open one.

screwloose · May 20, 2016

Just got 2 of those critters today at roughly 100 yards with a 218 bee

504 · May 20, 2016

I want to try a 50# bottle of co2,I just keep forgetting to get one.(dry ice or the fumes)

old-9 · May 20, 2016

BEST answer yet!!!!!!!!!
joe

Donald Lehman · May 20, 2016

They will eat anything and everything in your garden they can get to. Shoot them, poison them, gas them, trap them. Doesn't matter what you do or how you do it, get rid of them. Do you have a friend who traps? If you do see if you can borrow about twenty leg hold traps. Find his escape hole and the primary entrance and set several traps around the holes. Saturate the area around the hole with traps so they cannot come out of the hole with out having to walk on a trap.
Make darn sure you anchor those traps good, too.

Just like a stinking cottontail rabbit they will destroy a garden. There can be no halfway measures here if you wish to save your garden. I've tried all of the "stinky" potions that are supposed to keep critters away and they were a waste of time in my experience.

Donald Lehman · May 20, 2016

Back in the day when you could do such things, my neighbor who has a septic pumping business spread the sewage on our meadows. The fellow would back up to a woodchuck hole and open the valve on the truck and shoot em when they came sputtering out. He said for some reason, they seemed to be PO'd when they came out! Lol!

jeremy in NE · May 20, 2016

Couple buddies with 22's and beverage of choice

. If the lead don't get them the amount of bullsheeit flowing down the hole should.

jimg.allentown · May 20, 2016

Electric fence works for me. I got the electrified net from Premier and I love it. Easy to put up and take down. Keeps most small varmints out.
Now, if somebody has a solution for the robins eating my blueberries and the squirrels eating my apples and peaches, I'm listening.

RayP(MI) · May 20, 2016

Got one with a single shot .223 last week at about 120 yards. Just watched the area until he came out a few times, and once he made a bad mistake. I was ready for him. Also taken out 19 gophers (13 lined ground squirrels) with a .22 at varying ranges up to 50 yards on the past few weeks.

NoNewParts · May 20, 2016

If you try live traps, look them over carefully. The cheap new ones selling now, won't hold a woodchuck. weak.
They dig right thru the steel mesh...

robgIN · May 20, 2016

I always had good luck with a 12 guage . they usually come out twice a day at least mornings and late afternoon - evening . Just watch and get their routine and ambush.

craigco · May 20, 2016

Most farm stores sell gopher bait. Just poison coated seeds. They also have a stick that will put the poison in the tunnels so it's under ground where birds can't get to it. Around here we have gopher machines for tractors. Basically a one row planter that puts the poison down 6 to 8 inches you ring your field and line it every 15 feet or so. Gophers go for the easy digging of your trench and get a treat for doing so.

onefarmer · May 20, 2016

Do you have a gas engine that doesn't have a cat convertor? Pipe the exhaust down the hole when they're home.

I had them under my garage, never could get them to leave it alone. Finally backed my '96 F250 PSD up to it. Put the exhaust down the hole and let it run for an hour. I know there was one down there and it didn't come out. Even better, none have moved back in and it's been 8 years. I think I stunk up the dirt so they don't like it.

2002sliverado · May 22, 2016

Do an internet search on the "Rodenator." It might go by the name of Rodenator 2000. See if they have the videos on the website. I have not looked at the website for at least a half dozen years, but the videos were great! Made me think................prop for Caddyshack III?

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