Skeeter, email me your locale. If your farmers go for managing their groundhog population, I'd like to hunt those farms.
We're trying the conservation route on certain farms we hit hard last year but we'd never tell the farmer/landowner that. That's a good way to lose your hunting area to someone else that "will do the job" in the farmer's eyes.
The farm I was at on Saturday may be sold off for development. Which means no more hunting. So with that in mind, we're going to exterminate their presence. Plus being on the edge of town doesn't help so we're gettin' some while we can.
More groundhogs die of old age in our thick fencerows than someone could ever shoot in the fields around here so I don't get worked up about a few young ones dying. I'm gonna remove their heads anyways once they stick 'em out of their holes.
Or you could just shoot the bucks and leave the does for later. Sorta like a reverse AR.
