Time for Mr. Woodchuck to go

Havahart trap. Toss trap & critter into deep water. Talk like Tony Soprano while doing so.

You need someone like the groundskeeper in Caddyshack to give you some ideas.

Dittos to Havahart trap but rather then kill them, I prefer to relocate groundhogs to a more affluent neighborhood ;)

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Is there a pellet gun out there with the knock-down power of a .22? I know I could pick the no good rodent off with a rifle, but all my old Daisy airgun will do is pi$$ him off. Knowing him he'd probably set fire to the shed just for spite.

Is there a pellet gun out there with the knock-down power of a .22? I know I could pick the no good rodent off with a rifle, but all my old Daisy airgun will do is pi$$ him off. Knowing him he'd probably set fire to the shed just for spite.

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Yes. Ask at a real gun shop. Have bail money ready for when the cops haul you to jail and take your pellet gun. They'll listen to your story, and the complaint from the hysterical mommy next door. They'll like her story better because they have to.

go find some sub sonic 22s no noise

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From another newsgroup:

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"No one knows when the first rabbit appeared on [University of Victoria] campus, but an estimated 1,500 of them currently call it home. The university has come under pressure to cull the animals by angry neighbours but how that might be accomplished is fuelling a raging debate.

"Proponents of the doomsday approach have taken a shine to something called the Rodenator."

Heh!

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Rodenator home page with video

1. Throw a few chunks of Calcium carbide down the tunnel.
2. Add water.
3. Temporarily block opening.
4. Wait about a minute
5. Throw a match down the hole, igniting the acetylene.

Years ago, I was visiting the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania and was introduced to their semi-pet groundhog, Harriet. We don't have groundhogs in my part of Texas, so I offered to trade a Pennsylvania groundhog for a Texas armadillo.

"Good God, NO!" said the excited executive director.

"Uh, why not?" said I.

"Can you imagine what the granny-ladies who are walking our nature trails would do if an armadillo suddenly waddled out in front of them? We'd had dead grannies littering the paths!"

-------- Figuring out the igniter would be fun: The first thought that comes to mind is a spark plug, some long wires, and a salvaged ignition coil...

I have shot some similar to that in a bolt action 22 and it seems like the bullet hitting the dirt about 20 yards away made more noise than the actual shooting.

Some of the pellet guns have plenty of energy to kill the woodchuck. When I was growing up in the city my dad and I shot a bunch of squirrls out of a pecan tree in the back yard with a Crossman 22 pump up gun.

A 22 cal "CB cap" would do the job quietly and efficiently. These are more powerful than most air rifles and less powerful/noisy than a 22 short. They are pretty nearly silent. You are still discharging a firearm though. In fact here in the police state of NJ shooting an air gun is legally classified as discharging a firearm...go figure.

I had one who decided to burrow down beside my house. I tried everything to get him to leave. I finally saturated a towel with household ammonia and forced it down his hole with a long stick..then poured the rest of the gallon in. After I did this two or three times the little bugger left.

YMMV, EJ in NJ

CLR ice. Startling results.

;-)

I caught a woodchuck in my vegetable garden one time. I beat him over the head with a shovel handle which didn't phase him. We can't legally discharge firearms here either (people do anyway) but a bow and arrow does the job very effectively, silently. Try throwing some moth balls into the hole and fill with rocks.

The one time I caught a woodchuck in a Havahart. I was going to take him out that night. But when I went back to the cage at o'dark thirty, someone had opened the cage and let the critter out.

Incidentally, a 15 minute road flare was lit and stuffed into the hole, which was then back filled with rocks and earth. Havn't seen any more wood chuck holes.

I have the same restrictions on shooting the little furry devil.

They do make .22 caliber air rifles.

As to the Crossman type, use pointy tip pellets. They penetrate better. You can shoot squirrels off the trees with a pointy pellet. Uhm. Er. I mean "I've heard you can....." you know.

I saw on another usenet list, a guy was out back of his store, shooting rats with an airgun. Someone called 911 account of the guy with the "scoped sniper rifle".

What? I didn't hear you?

Baseball bat...Swing for the fence....That's how I got rid of one in my lawn....Then cut his head off and put it on a stick in the ground next to his hole as a warning to his friends...LOL...;)

TDD