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Offline ironglow

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...Almost that season again...
« on: April 01, 2007, 12:54:32 PM »
  Time to get after those woodchucks (or groundhogs) again !

   Here's a little enticer...one i got last season with the .17 HMR pictured..about 125 yards..and you can see it is a head shot..
  Actually I have already gotten a couple whistle pigs since the snow melted..

                                                              Anticipation.............Ironglow
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2007, 01:02:04 PM »
That does get me thinking about it ironglow. It looks as if you have started already, 2 since the snow melted? The rest of us will have to get out soon....<><....  :)
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2007, 01:03:38 PM »
What's a woodchuck!!! ??? You lucky guys!!! Good shootin, Ironglow!! ;)

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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2007, 01:29:56 PM »
You know Tim: "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
 it's one of those rodents that would chuck wood if they could....<><.... ;D
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2007, 01:32:05 PM »
:D
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 01:33:13 PM »
woodchuck = P-Dog on royds  ;D  ;)
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2007, 01:38:32 PM »
There are rockchucks well east of the Cascades, and I can shoot California ground squirrels about 75 miles east of me, but nothing around here. :-\

Tim
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2007, 01:44:09 PM »
Stray cats and a 22LR , kinda like LION hunting on a small scale .  :o
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2007, 02:42:27 PM »
Quote from: stimpylu32 on April 01, 2007, 01:44:09 PM
Stray cats and a 22LR , kinda like LION hunting on a small scale .  :o

Sss... be werry werry quiet, Stimpy taught he taw a puty tat.  ;)
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2007, 02:55:24 PM »
A question please, how do you tell the difference between a "stray cat" and a neighbors cat out for a stroll? And by the way what is a "stray cat"? Is it like a "stray dog" only smaller? I like dogs but we also had a cat for 17 years and am wondering how you decide which one to shoot, or do you shoot them all? We probably don't want any anti-hunting or anti-shooting activists, or animal rights groups getting a hold of this thread and taking it and using it out of context. As has been said by that old sage Elmer Fudd, "be wery, wery careful", especially in what you say and what you put in print, I know you did not mean it the way it came out but someone else may not and may try to use it against all of us....<><.... :o
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2007, 03:40:56 PM »
 
    Oops !...Almost forgot to mention..My NEF .17 HRM likes Hornadys the best..and woodchucks like them the least !..LOL
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2007, 12:54:51 AM »
Woodchuck have not quite appeared here yet but real soon.

Stray cats are easy to identify around here. They are very rough looking, much larger. I am up to 28 so far and have never had a problem knowing the diff between a house cat and one gone wild. My lab has been trained to chase ( but not hurt) cats in the yard so I do not see as many as I used to.
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2007, 02:28:40 PM »
The stray cats we shoot are real easy to distinguish..............



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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2007, 02:31:48 PM »
 ;D
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2007, 02:49:39 PM »
now THAT is a pretty kitty. I would like to see him when I was carrying my longbow with homemade wooden arrows....<><.... ;D
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2007, 03:19:35 PM »
Nothing against archers but the last time we played that game with a long bow with homemade wooden arrows right down to the obsidian tips........it took 5 arrows and we had 3 dogs tore up.......... I prefer one well placed shot out of a 223 myself...... those kitties get a little bit hostile when they are wounded and those claws are mighty sharp......... Although I have seen a few hit with compounds that expire quickly........... ;D
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2007, 03:59:51 PM »
I do like my longbow or even a recurve better than my compounds now but I do stay with steel arrowheads. I also think I would have a backup with me if I did hunt those kittys with a bow. When my buddy and I went hog hunting in Texas we each used our longbows with wooden arrows and steel arrowheads and the did carry a .44 Mag as a backup just in case, we may be a bit crazy but not stupid....<><....  ;D
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2007, 04:19:14 PM »
Well the bow he used worked fine but we wernt sure how good the first shot was placed.  It come out of the tree so fast, we had our dogs tied off but when we tried to blood trail we couldnt find any so we let the dogs loose..... It treed again about 300 yards later and the 2nd arrow was not very well placed.....the big tom came out of the tree and a few of the dogs got loose and got him on the ground so after climbing into a real mess and pulling tore up hounds off the cat he tried to slip out and the hunter started flinging sticks..... His first shot would of done the job if we had just given him time to bleed out but where we couldnt locate a blood trail we didnt want to lose him and so a mess insued...... we had plenty of back up as far as that goes but the hunter wouldnt hear of it... He was a complete primitive or traditional hunter i guess you would call it...........
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2007, 04:21:59 PM »
oh BTW


sorry to hi-jack your thread ironglow as my little story has nothing to do with handi rifles or woodchucks for that matter :-\
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2007, 04:32:16 PM »
perhaps not, but it sure was a great story and very interesting...Thanks, and very nice of you
to make that statement to ironglow also, your a gentleman with class, as is he....<><.... :)
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2007, 04:38:09 PM »
It's always amazing how easy a topic gets sidetracked to an entirely different topic!!  ;D

Tim
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2007, 06:02:18 PM »
 No problem plottrunner...any hunting is good stuff !...LOL
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Re: ...Almost that season again...
« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2007, 05:05:54 PM »
Back to the cat thing.

ANY cat in my yard is a stray target far as I'm concerned.
'nuff said, keep 'em outta here is all I care', coni's in the shop now too.

Thing I dislike worse than stray cats in my yard, are the one's messing in the dirt/sand
floor inside my shop.

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