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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: Clovis on June 24, 2022, 02:11:03 PM
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Here is a few I took out this week
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(https://i.ibb.co/MG7Ls9g/20220620-184730.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cCQd1xy)
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Only one garden raider this year. It was him or the garden!
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Yeah I shot a few for my sister that was eating her garden this year and the ones pictured are ones I shot for the neighbor farmer...he gets upset hitting the holes when he is mowing hay
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I’ve got a hide skinned and dried. Will see if I can bark tan it.
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Made a lucky shot once with a .54 Hawken, in one eye and out the other.
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Don't have them in western Oregon. Look like fun to shoot but can see why they are a pest. In eastern Oregon we we have what we call "sage rats" because that's where they live. Basically an ugly ground squirrel. You can literally shoot them by the dozens and even hundreds with no effect on the population. A .22 rimfire is mostly used but i just can't resist using my flintlocks on them. Smaller harvest but a hoot to shoot at. The range we shoot at is anywhere from 25 feet to 75 yards for the scoped boys.
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Whistle pig
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Rich Pierce, You are wasting your time with that hog pelt....just my opinion.....
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Rich Pierce, You are wasting your time with that hog pelt....just my opinion.....
I will remove the hair of course. Should make a handy little bag. Skinned cased. I’ll consider it practice.
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I got one that needs to be thumped. Digging in my machine shed, under the cabin and chewing on my timbers.
Fleener
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While mowing yesterday, I discovered an armadillo has dug a hole under the car I keep stored next to my shop. Seems like they only come out at nite, so I can't get a shot at it. I'll take a dryer sheet and soak it in ammonia.....then shove it down the hole.
It'll either bring him out or keep him from going back in.
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Rich that whistle pig hide will make a nice little bag.
Oldtravler
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...and the hide makes a wonderful period correct bag. Here's mine.
(https://i.ibb.co/r0Kh7Hc/Finished-bag-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GpfDxRt)
(https://i.ibb.co/syZcWNk/Groundhog-bag-3.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XSq6YKN)
(https://i.ibb.co/Jx2Lq0h/Grounghog-bag-4.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hXH5chq)
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Long time ago…my In-laws had a wood Chuck digging holes near the built in swimming pool. Nice residential area too. I told my mother in law ..when you see it ,give me a call ( way before cell phones ) and I’ll take care of it. Well…got the call one afternoon…brought my .40 cal ( cap lock ) and was on the 2nd floor balcony…hung the barrel ovah the railing and shot straight down ….lights out and a cloud of smoke…she was happy !
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The Legendary "Pasture Poodle"and I was a scourge to them in the Smoke Hole area of WVa's Eastern panhandle in 1967 and 68.
I used my Leonard Meadows Long Rifle and the Henry barreled Whitworth for longer shots.My hunting partner,Bascom Ray used a modern single shot with scope sight.His eyesight at 80 was the reason for the optics.We rented a cabin and spent a week at a time and had a good time and did some sight seeing as well.He and his wife and 5 sons are all deceased and I recently met the grand daughter of the youngest son,John F.Ray and we are now friends and she knows about her Great Grandpa and Grandmom and her great uncles.She is a cutie and wants to know all she can find out about her family's back ground.Thanks for stirring good old memories with this thread.
Bob Roller
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I've seen the furry hogs from Georgia to Maine but just never got around to chasing them. Georgia is covered up with armadillos. They run the possums ragged trying to teach those shelled critters HOW to cross a COTTON PICKING ROAD!
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Armadillos are destructive. My sister had a neighbor who used to get very wound up about the damage they did in his yard. One night she woke up to gun shots and went to look outside to see what was happening. The 92 year old neighbor was out front in his cowboy boots and boxer shorts blasting away with his shotgun. Made an entertaining picture.
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Man, I wish I had a place to hunt them. Just yesterday I said that to a friend.
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Clovis, I would bet a can of powdah that those pigs were proud to have been shot with that gorgeous rifle. ???
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I had a friend , now deceased, who grew up in the early 1900's He loved to tell about when he was in third grade and walked to school carrying a 30-30 just in case he came across a wood chuck. When people still used horses, wood chuck holes would sometimes break a horse's leg and many town offered a bounty for each wood chuck nose brought to town hall. The school principle would give the boys a nickle for every wood chuck nose and old Wimer said that there was always a stack of rifles just inside most class room doors. The whole affair fell apart when the boys found out that the principal was passing the noses down at town hall for eight cents a piece.
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Ask any farmer to hunt them and they will give you permission...they hate them
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Here in WV they are somewhat scarce due to coyotes. The coyotes have just about cleaned them out. I used to hunt them every summer till about 10 years ago. Now it is useless to go out looking for them.
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They have moved into barns, yards, anyplace a coyote won’t get em
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They have moved into barns, yards, anyplace a coyote won’t get em
And that means that you need a “Barn Gun” to shoot them little devils. That’s why they call them Barn Guns!!!!
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Wayne! ::)
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I hunted and shot many whistle pigs when I ran a truck farm twenty years ago. I shot them with about everything imaginable. Flintlocks, percussion and suppositories. The farm was out of town and every time I went there, I would park at the gate, arm up and walk (stalk) in. Funny thing about those buggers, if they saw you, they would run straight to their hole and dive in. All you had to do is go to the other side of their hole and wait, when they poked their head back out they would look in the direction where they last saw you and you just pop 'em in the back of the head!,,,LK
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I shot hundreds of them for the farmers back in SouthWestern Ontario back in the 60's. I had no ML'S then.
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Has anyone here ate the ground hogs that they shot?? I eat mine the young ones I like to BBQ on a open fire and the older ones I debone the meat and make stews with them ..either way I love how they taste.
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I did a lot of groundhog hunting when we lived in NC and we always ate what we harvested. The MO in our little group was head shots only and no close shots. Waste not - want not.
Tasty little beggars no matter how they are prepared.
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When I was a kid, my Great Aunt canned them.
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Has anyone here ate the ground hogs that they shot?? I eat mine the young ones I like to BBQ on a open fire and the older ones I debone the meat and make stews with them ..either way I love how they taste.
Yep. I got two young ones that were trying to destroy my garden one spring. I began skinning them and my wife said "You are Not going to cook those in MY kitchen" I took them to a Rendezvous that weekend and had Whistle pig stew!!! LK
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A guy might get some good patch lube if he rendered the fat down. I was going to dispatch one once with my 36 flinter but the owner of the property came out with his 12 ga. pump and said he would do it. He got the critter but he also got the hose on his gas pump, about 7 times. ;D
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I grew up eating them; till I got old enough to realize how good a hunk of choice beef was…. Now i let the buzzards have em…
Y’all have got me on a rant! 😂
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Groundhog can be a little fatty...diet coke is the recommended marinade ;D
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I killed 13 groundhogs that were in my barn last year. There is a railroad track behind my house and they love digging holes under the tracks. This year I have shot two so far. On going battle every year.
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I can recall eating two. Daryl shot them both and we ate one while out in the field, and the other, our dad bbq'd. I still have a dried skin down in the rec-room and the pelt is decent.
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My Grandfathers favorite meal. I provided the young groundhogs!
Fred
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Put 2 more in the freezer this weekend..both shot around 35 to 40 yards offhand...with a 50 cal with 50 grains of goex 2ff
(https://i.ibb.co/Kzt9mMD/20220710-190048.jpg) (https://ibb.co/S7kKJhc)
(https://i.ibb.co/Pj0LQts/20220710-191057.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XLMQ8Vf)
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both shot around 35 to 40 years offhand...
Back to the future! ;D
Just kidding nice shooting!!
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both shot around 35 to 40 years offhand...
Back to the future! ;D
Just kidding nice shooting!!
lol..that's definitely in the future...