A ground hog and an AK

The skunk I mentioned finally drove me crazy, too, Matthew. He started by ambushing me but this soon led to confrontation. He would wait for me hiding under the car and when I came home he would be hiding under the porch. The showdown came when he started waiting ON the porch for me in the AM and would not let me out of the house.

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The most practical method is probably trapping.

For a more fun method, though ... have you ever thought about taking up archery? If so ... there's no time like the present....
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It'll take you a while before you get good enough to hit him, but you'll have an incentive to practice ... I bet you could learn to shoot a bow much faster with a ground hog sneering at you the whole time.
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I suppose the propane method would be fun if you survive it. That idea scares me ... anyway, even if you survived your mother would have a heart attack.

-Cougar :{)
 
Archery would work well, but usually the ground hog will make for the hole when he is hit. If he is going on instint he would bust your arrow as he dives into the hole. Sometime he does not realize he has been hit by the arrow and just dies after a while.

I have seen ground hogs taken with an air rifle. You have to hit him in the head and the pellet needs to penetrate (.177 is better). A ground hog is really too much for the air rifle but it can be done.

Groundhogs seem to like bread and stuff so trapping would work.

Propane and gasoline are much more fun but it can get dangerous. It reminds me of the book about tunnel rats where they experimented with a liquid/vapor explosive for blowing up tunnels.

Will

 
When I was younger skunks lived moved into a hole in the neighbors house. They would surprise the skunk the odd time and even one would know it. Fortunately, I had not been sprayed even though I deserved it. Shooting at them in the dark with an air pistol is an interesting experience. Not very smart though.

If you sniff very carefully when drinking coffee, the odor of skunk spray can be detected. Coffee contains a tiny bit of the same chemical.

You need a very big Falcon, perhaps a hunting cheeta might do the trick.

Will
 
Metal bolts with a broadhead will deffinatly achor the little hog. With a 150 lb pull it will probably lift the little SOB off of his feet .
 
Speaking of being tormented by animals, a few years back our camp was literally overrun with skunks. I've told this story in a different forum before but, since it seems germane, here it is again...

One of my dogs had a couple of run-ins with the skunks. The first occurred just after sundown while Blondie was retrieving a tennis ball, one of her favorite things. We heard a brief commotion & knew what had happened almost right away. She returned with tail & ears down, having caught it right in the chest and face. I repeatedly hosed & shampooed her outside but the smell lingered on. Since the soap & water splashed me quite a bit, I had to discard the clothes I was wearing.

The next day, we discovered that Blondie had apparently extracted her revenge. There was a young skunk lying on its side about 30 feet away under a bush, right where the commotion had taken place. I hit it with a couple of pebbles & poked it with a long stick. When it didn't move, I picked it up with a shovel, intending to dispose of it. You can imagine my surprise when it lifted its head & looked at me as I was walking away with it on the shovel blade. Long story short, I finished Blondie's work without further incident.

Although you might have thought Blondie would have learned her lesson, she didn't. The following weekend we were visiting some neighbors at their camp when Blondie -- still smelling from the first incident --went exploring under their deck. Yup, sprayed again, effectively putting an end to that little party.

Cheers,
Brian
 
A squirrel set up "light housekeeping" in the wall of my old apartment. Young 'uns and everything. Sheesh, what a racket. Never did manage to get rid of them. I graduated and left the place. They were still there when i left.

Tom
 
Here's a trick my dad, the engineer/inventor, taught me to catch whatever varmint is frequenting your domain while you're asleep. (In Dad's case, it was a stray dog that was killing his livestock.)

He bought a motion detector-activated flood light at Wal-Mart, removed the bulbs, and soldered the leads from an extension cord he cut open to the bulb socket. He mounted the motion detector flood by the barn facing out, then plugged 3 or 4 extension cords together from the one soldered to the flood light socket all the way through the window of his house into his bedroom, where he plugged an alarm clock into it that was already set to go off. That night at about 3AM the dog triggered the motion detector flood light, but instead of a flood light coming on, it activated the alarm clock in his bedroom...which bought the dog a .308 through his center of mass.

The only way this wouldn't work is if you have a bunch of pets or livestock running around to trigger it--you'll go crazy with all the false alarms. I guess the solution would be to just pen up all your animals until the culprit is taken out. Of course, where you place the motion detector makes all the difference in the world.

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Another technique I favour is plugging up all known entrance holes. Next, dump some cheap perfume(make sure you do NOT use the wife's favourite Chanel #5
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Harry
 
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