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Djones
05-14-2014, 08:05 PM
I was at the range on this rainy evening. While setting up targets at 100 yards for my 358 win and 35 rem I heard some rustling in the weeds. I caught a glimpse of a groundhog aka whistlepig.

Well I went about testing my 358318 cup hp in the 358 win over 39&40 grains of H322. They shot well. Switched over to my 35 rem with a 190 ranchdog bullet over 39, 40, 41 & 41.5 grains of leverevolution powder. The 41.5 shot the best.

At the end of my testing I caught a glimpse of the old whistlepig at 80 yards. Needless to say a 190 rd boolit through the head and it was instant tail in the air.

Blammer
05-14-2014, 08:19 PM
Nice!

Zymurgy50
05-14-2014, 08:49 PM
If he was stupid enough to hang out at a shooting range, then he was too stupid to breed........

Djones
05-14-2014, 08:53 PM
If he was stupid enough to hang out at a shooting range, then he was too stupid to breed........

Haha same thing I was thinking. It was a fatty too.

DougGuy
05-14-2014, 09:18 PM
Didja eat 'im? I hear they are really good, no kidding..

petroid
05-14-2014, 09:26 PM
I often shoot at a public range smack in the middle of a Wildlife Management Area. Deer hunting is archery only and there is a no access boundary around the range. There are several deer that spend a LOT of time inside this boundary, even coming up to the clearing bordering the range when I and others are shooting. They must know something...

Zymurgy50
05-14-2014, 10:31 PM
Didja eat 'im? I hear they are really good, no kidding..

Many years ago when I was just married I shot a woodchuck at the in-laws spread, was just gonna throw the carcass in its hole when my mother in law yelled from the house. Seems that her parents would eat the younger ones, even stopping to pick up ones they had hit with a car.
I found out that the young ones are kinda like rabbit, and the old ones are best used as coyote bait......

Djones
05-15-2014, 03:44 AM
I didn't eat this one. We used to grind up whistlepigs and stray cats for bait on the trap line. Mom also tells a story about thanksgiving roast groundhog on my dad's side back when they first started dating. With a groundhog's diet of young shoots and other leafy plants I would bet they are good eatin.

Paul D. Heppner
05-18-2014, 07:50 PM
They are tasty, reminds me of beef. Older ones can be a little stringy and it takes four men and a spotted dog to skin'em.

osteodoc08
05-19-2014, 11:20 AM
If he was stupid enough to hang out at a shooting range, then he was too stupid to breed........

Ive had deer, turkeys, squirrels, crows, etc make there way on the range while shooting. The crow ended up in a pile of feathers. The others were left to feed and I just took time to make adjustments, move things around, etc.