What is this thing?
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Topic: What is this thing?
Posted By: agentwhale007
Subject: What is this thing?
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 11:25am
When I pulled up to campus this morning, it was scampering down a hill. It started going under cars and eating the acorns that got broken up by the tires.  It was really chubby and didn't have a beaver's tail. Best guesses from asking and looking at the Internet are marmot or groundhog. |
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Posted By: chaibill
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 11:27am
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ground hog or wood chuck ------------- P68 68 carbine Viper M1 |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 11:27am
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hahahaha....
Yeah, that is a ground hog.
They can get very mean when cornered. Their teeth are super long and sharp too.
I shot one that was living under my porch from my dining room table a few weeks back...
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 1:31pm
Nice marmot.
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 1:40pm
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 1:46pm
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They espeically seem to like areas near water. There is a bike path close to here that runs next to a river, and it is swarming with them about this time of year. I guess they are scrambling to fatten up for hybernation. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: kickinwing2010
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 1:49pm
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You should have caught it and made it the T&O mascot. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 1:53pm
 ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
DaveEllis wrote:Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:09pm
| looks like a wood chuck |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:15pm
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Those things are quite tasty. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:46pm
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Here in NY the backyard is a 'woodchuck' haven, the bassets now even ignore them. I pop em with a .22 or for fun the .54 Sharps just because of the threat of rabies. You have never lived till you see a .54 bullet slam into a woodchuck....Strawberry Fields forever.... ------------- 
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:50pm
Damn you Benji. I wanted to make a "hmm, around here we just call them dinner" jokes, but of course your hipster woodsman self has to ruin it for me. I hate you. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:53pm
| Those things did thousands of dollars worth of damage to my grandparents barn by undermining the foundation, you should have punted it. My best/worst idea was funneling gas into a hole and lighting w/ a rag on a stick, the vapor filled the massive tunnel complex, and flames shot out of unexpected places, it shook the ground pretty well. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 4:38pm
Rednekk, is your real name "Carl Spackler" by any chance?  ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 4:45pm
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I've never seen anything so chubby run so fast. I hope I see more of them. I liked it. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 4:55pm
For some reason, this made me laugh. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 4:57pm
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 5:20pm
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Their fur makes for surprisingly comfortable gloves, and coat liners. The groundhog fur industry has become surprisingly significant - and contentious - in Ontario's economy since the auto manufacturers downsized. Huge export market.
------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 5:39pm
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Bri . . . every time I see your sig I think that the word "fetus" needs to be thrown in there right after "whale."
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 6:14pm
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 6:20pm
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Groundhog Woodchuck Whistlepig Hunting them is easy. Give a good, shrill whistle and up they pop- great targets. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 6:21pm
.54? Bah. .58 picks them up and throws them.  ------------- ? |
Posted By: Magoo
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 11:11pm
| Sissies. Get a 20g fowler. .62 FTW. |
Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 11:17pm
------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 11:46pm
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Its a speedbump. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 1:13am
You might be a redneck if you discuss hunting marmots with obscure calibers.
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 1:36am
Beat me to it.
Also, a balistic tip 5.56 will splatter em where they sit. almost wish I had a video of when we went out and were picking em off at my cusions farm in iowa. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 1:39am
| It looks like it has no legs. |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 5:47am
Why do you think they call it a groundhog? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 8:07am
Guilty as charged. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 3:06pm
A pelt with the head/face attached would make a cool skin hat. -------------
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 3:41pm
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I kinda like groundhogs, but I also like racoons.
I hate the things living around my house. They ate my tomatoes(es?) this summer, and I live in suburbia so I cant go around capping things with a .22.
Or, if I wanted to be a Detrevni, .458. Takes rocks out from a few hundred yards. ------------- 
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 3:59pm
2. Paint sleeping pills red. 3. Hang clusters of sleeping pills from plants 4. ????? 5. Profit. ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 4:07pm
make a simple snare with piano wire where it spends most of it's time feeding, make a few snares. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 4:08pm
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1. Buy a suppressed .22 pistol 2. ? 3. Profit. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 4:10pm
sub sonic .22 ammo and a potato on the end over the muzzle of the rifle. Works like a charm. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 4:29pm
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I lived in a neighborhood in the house before the one I live in now... And I blasted a groundhog with my 22 rifle, dropped it right in the backyard, first shot. (course I had 2 acres) dumped it in the woods and walked inside, only to find out that our friends had just arrived... With their kids, and saw the whole thing...
whoops.
Groundhogs are bad news to your house, if they start digging underneath stuff...
We have traps too, which are fun... Nothing meaner sounding than a groundhog in a wire trap, frantically trying to get away. Just flip the trap on its top, open the latch and let it drop down... It will run out away from you and you can blast it.
They are everywhere in Ohio. Our biggest problem animal currently is coyote's. Man, are they getting bad. Lost 3 chickens this year to them, and I hear them almost every night. When they kill something they all make a ton of noise. I camped next to one of our ponds a few weeks ago, and I hardly slept from because of the noise of all the different packs of coyote's around my area. Good thing we had our huge Akita out with us... She killed a deer this spring... Every week she kills something that crosses the yard. Awesome dog.
Coolest thing I've seen are red tailed foxes. They live in our woods as well. We also have a bunch of owls, and hawks. (my favorite is the great horned owl. Watching them fly through thick trees is amazing, their wingspan has to be 6 feet wide!)
Last month someone hit and killed a 14 point buck infront of our house in the road... And within an hour someone had come and cut off the rack! ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 5:02pm
| When my uncle had chickens, he had problems with coyotes and stray/feral dogs killing them. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 6:00pm
1. Soak bread in cheap liquor.
2. Leave in backyard.
3. Capture passed out wildlife.
4. Train said wildlife to be pet.
5. ???
6. Profit. -------------
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 6:24pm
| I would have a pet groundhog if such a thing is allowed. |
Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 23 September 2010 at 6:27pm
The problem with a trap is that you are only going to catch the one scout at a time. To take care of your problem you need to locate the hive and take out the king groundhog. The best way I have found to do this is to trap one, then use alternative interrogation techniques to gather intel on the whereabouts of the hidden lair. I recommend waterboarding. This usually takes a good 15 minutes of questioning to get the info you need, but it is worth the hassle when you walk into the groundhog king's palace with a chainsaw, slaughter his harem as he watches helplessly, then leave, trap him inside, and make your wife burn the place down along with him and his high priest*. It should look similar to this: *It is ok for her to leave the kitchen for this because it is her job to do all of the cooking. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 24 September 2010 at 8:44am
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 24 September 2010 at 9:52am
I've always wanted a skunk as a pet- supposedly, they make great pets once their stink gland has been removed ------------- ? |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 24 September 2010 at 9:55am
------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 24 September 2010 at 1:54pm
My idiot friends back home(who ate paint chips, Tommy Boy) captured a baby skunk. It was too young to spray, and was cute and whatnot, but had the nappiest hair of any animal. -------------
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