I rid my area of five of these critters last year: Two shot, and three trapped. Haven't seen any around yet this year. Yet.
If you haven't had any luck shooting them (or if you have close neighbors or some other reason that gunfire just isn't safe), the best way I've found is trapping them.
Go to the link below and look at the Bridger body traps. I think you'll want either the 6" (#160) or 7" (#220) traps. If groundhogs are that much of a problem on your spread, you'll want to buy *at least* a half-dozen traps.
First, attach the trap to something reasonably heavy so that it won't get dragged off; I use an old bush-hog flail and some worn-out tire chains. Now, set the trap -- but watch your fingers!
Next, place a trap over every burrow you can find. Some of them are woodchuck residences, and others are just places they dig so that they have somewhere to go hide if they sense danger.
Finally, camouflage the trap with a few handfuls of fresh-pulled blades of grass, but leave the opening visible.
With any luck, the traps will spring when the intended target either pokes its head out of its burrow to go and maraud your vegetable garden, or rushes back into it when fleeing danger. (O, the irony!) The traps usually catch them across the waist and chest, and the end comes rather quickly.
I then take the carcasses some distance away (onto a powerline that runs parallel to the property line) and leave them belly-up. The crows or coyotes/other scavengers do the rest.
I like using the traps, as they avoid the use of poisonous methods and are much more discreet than gunfire.
Good like with your campaign, and let us know how you make out.
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