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Offline Matt3357

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Ground Hogs
« on: October 23, 2008, 07:37:49 AM »
I'm looking to do some ground hog huntin next summer and I was wondering what kind of tips you all had for our area.  I have seen them around my property in East Central IL but nothing like I've heard other places.  I have heard of people having "towns" of them like a prairie dog town, but have never seen such a thing here.  Any tips you guys have would be great.

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Re: Ground Hogs
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 04:14:04 PM »
Matt, ground hogs are where you find them. Look on railroad tracks areas, grassy fields, hay fields, I've even kill them out of trees while hunting squirrels. Pa. state is where most of them live. Good luck.
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Re: Ground Hogs
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2008, 03:25:09 AM »
Matt, it is pretty much like Steve said and you can cover a lot of ground quickly while checking out the areas for holes.
My "preimier shooting" happens when the new soybeans are just a couple inches high. Those groundhogs will go around a cornfield to get at a beanfield and will strip those young plants down to just
A stalk in short order.
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