First Groundhog of the Season

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

.....so I simply released him back where he came from. BIG MISTAKE. I educated that groundhog and never caught another one again from that location.

I used to keep my tractors down at our farm wile Mom was still living there and the groundhogs had burrowed under the concrete floor and come up under the dirt floor of the old grainery where I kept my tools, and started chewing a hole in the grainery floor. I left a radio playing there so they were used to the noise and was doing pretty god thinning them out with a single action .22 revolver until I wounded one rather than killing it, and they learned to duck at the click of th cylinder turning. I replaced the revolver I was keeping there with a single shot .410, that I had learned I could hold the trigger back and pull back the hammer, then release the trigger, and I had it cocked without making any noise, then I started getting more of them.