Groundhog Shoot! Must See!

chuck shootin' - miss it

Those pictures make me miss shootin whistle pigs back in Ontario. I have shot them with everything in the gun cabinet. I shot one with the .22-250 that split it in two and I thought I had killed two 'chucks. I took my daughter shootin pasture poodles with my .270 when she was only 11 and she asked me if it was still alive after one particular neck shot, and the answer was "no dear he needs his head to stay alive". I shot one once with a friends .22 that ran left on a fence, then right, then left, then right again before I hit him in the head. I even shot one once out of a tree. When I was 16 I spent my summer shootin hawgs with my new .30-06 Parker Hale walking and shooting over all the neighbors farms until my fingerprints were wore off by the hand cut checkering. In high school my science project was a bleached groundhog skeleton mounted on a black felt covered block. It was made up of three seperate animals boiled, bleached and "reassembled".
Now out here in B.C. the nearest groundhogs we have are protected marmots, damn I miss it.

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In reference to what happens after they get whacked...

Normally they get stuffed back down the hole. However, I am doing what most people would call insane.

I took the meat off the legs of the little ones over the past few weeks. It doesn't look bad by any means but I can't imagine it is going to be good. I am going to stew it like rabbit and give it a try. Worst comes to worst the dog will have a good meal.

I was out yesterday again and this years born are starting to make some appearances. I am going to hold off on another shoot for a few weeks and let em' get nice and fat. I have some Varmint Grenades that need testing on fat hogs.
 
I've had it a few times in meatpies and such, can't say the taste was anything unusual. Pretty good actually. I think it has more to do with the psychological aspects of eating what amount of a large rat that cause people to discard the carcasses rather than attempt to make use of them.

Shifty2 said:
In reference to what happens after they get whacked...

Normally they get stuffed back down the hole. However, I am doing what most people would call insane.

I took the meat off the legs of the little ones over the past few weeks. It doesn't look bad by any means but I can't imagine it is going to be good. I am going to stew it like rabbit and give it a try. Worst comes to worst the dog will have a good meal.

I was out yesterday again and this years born are starting to make some appearances. I am going to hold off on another shoot for a few weeks and let em' get nice and fat. I have some Varmint Grenades that need testing on fat hogs.
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I've been thinking about eating them also. I read that you have to remove the sent glands first but for the life of me I can't find those glands anywhere. Last summer I took one apart like a puzzle and never found em.....meat looked good though. Some folks said it was best to soak em in salt water for about 12 hours before cooking.
Any earthpig chefs out there?
 
Scent glads should be located around the, well, rear end, just like skunks and such.

oopswasthatyourdog? said:
I've been thinking about eating them also. I read that you have to remove the sent glands first but for the life of me I can't find those glands anywhere. Last summer I took one apart like a puzzle and never found em.....meat looked good though. Some folks said it was best to soak em in salt water for about 12 hours before cooking.
Any earthpig chefs out there?
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My buddy was working for the Taliban Jack on the last election (I know, don't ask). He toured across Canada and ate some ground hogs from some natives up north. They originally asked if he wanted to eat some hogs, later he found out they were ground hogs. LOL
 
Here on Vancouver Island what's classified as the Hoary Marmot is an endangered and protected species. I had my wife take a picture of me with one I came across travelling through Manning Park in southern B.C.

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:pAlthough friendly, this one was about the size of a Grizzly;).
 
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Congrats. Dang, I wish ours were that big. I would definitely try eating them. However, our ground squirrels are so small that it isn't worth gutting and skinning for a 1/2 oz of meat.
 
Johnn Peterson said:
Here on Vancouver Island what's classified as the Hoary Marmot is an endangered and protected species. I had my wife take a picture of me with one I came across travelling through Manning Park in southern B.C.

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:pAlthough friendly, this one was about the size of a Grizzly;).
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Louise marinated that sucker for 6 months and it still tasted like cement- Jeff Foxworthy
 
sherlockbonez said:
My buddy was working for the Taliban Jack on the last election (I know, don't ask). He toured across Canada and ate some ground hogs from some natives up north. They originally asked if he wanted to eat some hogs, later he found out they were ground hogs. LOL
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LoL, I was just :nest: when I made the comment about them tenderloins.
Didnt think about it till this post above.
But, man has and still does eat some strange things...
There is that old saying " Give a Man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime"
I guess such is true.
As mentioned earlier Good Shooting!
Rob
 
Ok, Ok....STEP BACK FROM THE GROUND HOG CARCASS!!!! :p

If theres ever going to be a time that I'd start even thinking of eating a freakin rodent, I'll just pull a few of these out of the freezer instead.
('09 venison steak marinated 12 hrs, medium rare smothered in 'roons, sweet peppers and 'taters)
Eating gopher...Jesus!
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my grandpa always wanted me to gut the groundhogs I killed and fry them up. He would be like " why not!?! I did it when I was a kid, we were so poor we lived off the land and ate whatever you killed!, God damn kids these days!"


LOL I killed about 100 pigs that day when I was 15 with my 22mag. Had them all piled up to show my dad and grandpa. Still sticks out in my mind like it was yesturday. haha
 
I found a similar field yesterday afternoon, as i was shooting one, others was popping out to lookout. Got 7 but wasn't able to extract one from it's hole, arm shortage ;) shots was between 100 and 250 yards, wasn,t too sure about the new hand load.

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