Anyone groundhog hunt with their flintlocks?

[Longknife]

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

[Daryl]

I shot hundreds of them for the farmers back in SouthWestern Ontario back in the 60's. I had no ML'S then.

[Clovis]

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.

[bluenoser]

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.

[bob in the woods]

When I was a kid, my Great Aunt canned them.

[Longknife]

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

[smylee grouch]

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. 

[Austin]

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! 😂

[martin9]

Groundhog can be a little fatty...diet coke is the recommended marinade

[iloco]

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.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

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.

[FDR]

My Grandfathers favorite meal. I provided the young groundhogs!

Fred

[Clovis]

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

[Daniel Coats]

both shot around  35 to 40 years offhand...

Back to the future! 

Just kidding nice shooting!!

[Clovis]

both shot around  35 to 40 years offhand...

Back to the future! 

Just kidding nice shooting!!

  lol..that's definitely  in the future...