Rock Chuck!!

[Deezil]

wish we had whistle pigs and rockchucks over here to shoot at, all we have it crows and coyotes

[hobbesgunner]

Looks like a chuck to me....mom said they used to eat them when she was a kid..along with coon and possum....meat was kinda stinky though..anything they shot got ate..poor West Virginia coal miner thing I guess..... farmers around here (central southern NY / northern Pa.) are happy as hell to let u shoot their woodchucks off, coyotes too...just don't ask to hunt deer.turns into a family only situation ...We'll take what we can get though and be happy about it..

[saiga12]

We have rock chucks here that are bigger than the ones in your pics. They do have the yellow bellies and live up in the mountains in shale piles. I've massacred lots of them with .22s and a Browning Hipower. They're not that bright of a critter, and curiosity kills lots of them.

[bwaites]

The one in the pic is relatively small. Some are easily twice that big. I shot 3 this morning on the way to work, all off the same pile. Still have to use my air rifle, but since its private property, I just roll up in my car, shoot out the window, and drive on.

[LightningII]

I've seen colonies of them in rock formations in Wyoming. It was a like a rodent condo.
As soon as they saw horese, the sentire would start that whistling, and the rest would run for cover.

We used to shoot them in PA, when i was a kid. The farmers hated them for the crop damage and the big holes they leave for livestock to break legs in.

the PA woodchucks/groundhogs were big enough that I've dropped those big green 1 gallon wine bottles right down the hole.

[Longshot_34]

The one in the pic is relatively small. Some are easily twice that big. I shot 3 this morning on the way to work, all off the same pile. Still have to use my air rifle, but since its private property, I just roll up in my car, shoot out the window, and drive on.

We used to shoot at the neighbors rock pile down the road from where our new house is being built. Rock pit was in a U shape. We'd set up at the mouth of the U. It was 212 yards to the end. One day three of us went out and in a little over an hour we shot 100+ rockchucks. We counted 100 carcases but saw evidence of others that fell back into their holes after being shot. Those we didn't count. It was a great outing. Google maps used to show the acre+ of alfalfa they'd eaten of my inlaws field. Damage was a little worse when they started planting corn. We did what we could to keep them at bay.

[bwaites]

In the last 4 days, I've harvested 11 off the pile where I got that one. I really need a .22 or .25 repeater airgun, though!

[Longshot_34]

Then theirs only one thing left to do, Bill.

[WHISLPIG]

notice my sign on... love to chuck em... so to speak. and yes, happiness is a fine red mist. use a variety of weapons... 22-250- 243 winchester- and soon my grendel... if i do my part, i'm sure i'll be "painting the town red" if you know what i mean. i have also shot them with my bow, that however can get expensive... lost an arrow in the hole. to many houses around for a firearm. skipped the arrow in to the whistlepig, and down the hole with my arrow it went.

[DirectDrive]

We had woodchucks in Western MA.
Big, probably twice the size of the one in the pic.
They like to burrow in pastures with sandy soil. Their big pile of excavation spoils would betray them.
I never saw so many as in Ohio. I saw a field that was crawling with them, where we would have one or two in the same size field.

The rockchucks that I've seen in Oregon have been around 4000 feet elevation.

The mist is one thing, but then there's the rainbow....need some velocity for that.

[sneaky one]

Who cares of rock chucks--I'm waiting for helo -hog hunts in mn.,,, and a do-able walrus roast, or walrus jerky recipe from tx gunner after 12-21-012. ha-ha ha!

[rasp65]

I am with you on that brother.
PS Bill Try CB long subsonic 22's made by CCI they are very quiet and I got 2 groundhogs this week with them in my back yard.

[bwaites]

I am with you on that brother.
PS Bill Try CB long subsonic 22's made by CCI they are very quiet and I got 2 groundhogs this week with them in my back yard.

My neighbor uses CB's even inside the city limits, but where I shoot them I'm very exposed to view, and the cops have come to check me out several times, after people have called me in as having a rifle. I've got 17 of them this summer. Most of the time my longest shot is 20 yards, and I found a hollowpoint that will shoot tiny groups at that distance. I can actuallly hit them in the head consistently inside 20 yards.

[JASmith]

Those CB caps are quieter than the .177 air rifle! They are very effective on cottontails.

I also have to worry about visual pollution attracting the wrong folks.

[txgunner00]

Who cares of rock chucks--I'm waiting for helo -hog hunts in mn.,,, and a do-able walrus roast, or walrus jerky recipe from tx gunner after 12-21-012. ha-ha ha!

Walrus jerky! That's funny. I haven't seen any of those around here but I did live in a town a few years back that had hippos everywhere.