Whistle Pigs

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Number 1 should never be a option (Bait the groundhog into a trap, catch it, and then release it in a wooded area five miles away from your home.)!

Sure the trapping part is fine, but, SHOOT IT!!!!

Dont relocate your problem to become someone elses problem!!!!

The trap and relocate is a common belief of do good city dwellers. They almost always say to "take it out in the country and let it go"! NO, DONT DO IT!

Country folks have enough problem animals as it is, we dont need imported orphans!!!

So remember, trap, SHOOT (and kill), then release those pesky varmints!
 
Here, it's illegal to release them elsewhere. Supposedly, they are territorial, and getting released into someone elses territory, gets you beaten up, or maybe killed!

Ed
 
Coyotes are. good groundhog repellent, and control. Farmer neighbor has people asking to hunt coyotes, and he says, no, they work for me. Shoot deer or groundhogs, if you need to shoot something!
Ed
 
anything I trap here---stays here---FOREVER! Coyotes are my worst enemy and I pay guys for every one they kill on my property!
 
I had one standing on my wood pile, gnawing on the plywood siding on my shop. Next time I heard it out there scratching, I crept around the corner with the nearest weapon, a junior 20ga with bird shot. Came around the corner, and it was only 5' away. BOOM. Then I had to spend some time on top of the wood pile removing 'soiled' logs. Ooof. I'd never shot something that close with bird shot before. Brutal.
 
Don McCombs":nyt6h5k6 said:
I release all of the groundhogs that I trap or shoot. Right into the waiting jaws of vultures, foxes and coyotes. :{_}:
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We had our issues with a fox killing our chickens over the years, lost more than 30 birds. I could tell some stories about my trying to deal with them. Most involve me being thoroughly out smarted I tell them at get togethers that always entertains. The fox have my greatest respect now and I won’t consider hurting one. Smartest animal I ever saw.
Might sound funny but we’ve formed a truce, Every so often I shoot the squirrels and woodchucks that raid my garden and fruit trees then leave them for the fox near the same tree at the bottom of our property.
The fox comes in the evening and barks when he/she collects it. I do this with fishing and kitchen scraps too. Since we’ve been doing this the fox family is seen coming and going but they leave our chickens alone.
 
I caught the one in our yard in a have a heart trap and then killed it and tossed it in the salt marsh.
I put alot of leaves and branches over it to make it look like a cave. Grass with peanut butter and apples
 
Don McCombs":2ycxfzts said:
I don't often use a live trap, but have found that cantalope is a good bait for groundhogs.
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I use apples or bayberry leaves as those are the trees I have on my property and what it’s likely to find . I’ve loaned my traps to friends who tried apple with no success but then yes cantaloupe worked for them. The ones I’ve trapped I’ve relocated deep in the pine barrens away from farms or people.
If they don’t go in the trap quick enough I’ve got no problem Shooting them especially the ones digging under my barns concrete slab to come and raid my garden. :evil:
In fact with those I don’t play around, the traps get set but if I get a shot I take it !
 
John *.?-!.* cub owner":30qqmbti said:
Whistle pigs,etc. seem to have a problem swimming in a alive trap.
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I bet! :)

Urbish":30qqmbti said:
I had one standing on my wood pile, gnawing on the plywood siding on my shop. Next time I heard it out there scratching, I crept around the corner with the nearest weapon, a junior 20ga with bird shot. Came around the corner, and it was only 5' away. BOOM. Then I had to spend some time on top of the wood pile removing 'soiled' logs. Ooof. I'd never shot something that close with bird shot before. Brutal.
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Soiled logs burn too...... Lol! :lol:

I think my ground hog tally was up to 4, 5, maybe 6 last year!
 
Mine can't seem to pass the Navy swim test. (With what you're wearing, like a live trap)
I don't catch many, but those that do, get the "test"

Ed
 
Don McCombs":1bfz0ie4 said:
I have found a live trap for groundhogs to not be very effective. The Conibear is much better. :D
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I have tried the live catch once with no luck!
I have thought about setting a connibear over the hole.....

But have not tried it yet!
 
SamsFarm":1nxtik4n said:
Don McCombs":1nxtik4n said:
I have found a live trap for groundhogs to not be very effective. The Conibear is much better. :D
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I have tried the live catch once with no luck!
I have thought about setting a connibear over the hole.....

But have not tried it yet!
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Conibear is very effective. Make sure you use the staking chain to attach it to something sturdy. I had one staked to the ground and checked it daily. One day it was gone! I found it a week later clamped to the head of a groundhog that had ran with it about 150 yards before expiring.
 
Urbish":3hwmgzrk said:
Conibear is very effective. Make sure you use the staking chain to attach it to something sturdy. I had one staked to the ground and checked it daily. One day it was gone! I found it a week later clamped to the head of a groundhog that had ran with it about 150 yards before expiring.
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:lol:

Do you set and lay them over the hole, or stand them up vertical supported by stakes in the spring holes?

You using 220's?
 
I had a stubborn one in a large dirt mound over the summer.

I could never see it to get a shot!

Tried the live catch trap, putting sticks and leaves on and around the hole to make the trap part of the tunnel.
But, that did not work.

One night I filled the holes with dirt, but it just dug back out. :(

Then another night I shoveled some fresh cow poo in each hole, then filled the holes back in and packed it down.

Dont know what happened, but it never dug back out then!

Figured it was either not home that night, the cow poo emitted some methane gas that did it in, or maybe it just did not want to stick it's paws in the poo! :)

The cows like the dirt mound like it is some kind of play ground, and the last thing I needed was a broken leg!
 
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