Groundhog Assassins Needed

[Marlena46219]

Ok, maybe trappers...or shooters....all I know is there are most likely eight or more of these critters crawling under the founation of my barn and now moving into the old garage and making themselves at home! Is there such a thing as the alpha female? If she leaves will the others leave? How far apart do the females normally live? (minimum distance). Anyone interested in trapping or hunting them? Any trap will work as far as I'm concerned. These animals have really taken a toll on my barn and enough is enough. There are all kinds of animals here to trap if someone is interested. Raccoon coats are more dark than light.

[slippedcork]

Back your vehicle next to the main hole. Rig something up( hose or pipe) that will go from your exhaust pipe to the hole and sit back in your favorite chair and watchem get out of town. You can always shoot them when they come out but if you aint into killing a few times doing this they will leave. If you can get a garden hose to the hole they will come out also after it fills with water. Hope I gave you some good ideas.

[Marlena46219]

Back your vehicle next to the main hole. Rig something up( hose or pipe) that will go from your exhaust pipe to the hole and sit back in your favorite chair and watchem get out of town. You can always shoot them when they come out but if you aint into killing a few times doing this they will leave. If you can get a garden hose to the hole they will come out also after it fills with water. Hope I gave you some good ideas.

Thank you for the suggestions, however there's 40 acres and the holes are inaccessible due to overgrowth. This area is a barn and barnlot that haven't been used for 30 years but I'd like to use them in the future. I am going to try it on one hole and maybe at least he'll leave to another hole. The one in the old garage I can't find a tunnel....there are a few cracks/holes in the foundation.

Does anyone know the strory behind the alpha female? Is this true?

[JD7.62]

Where are you located? I wouldnt mind letting my PSL stretch her legs a bit. Is it possible to set up for a long range shot, something over 300m? I believe a 7.62x54r round will make quick work out of them varmits!

[bassin_bug]

Ok, maybe trappers...or shooters....all I know is there are most likely eight or more of these critters crawling under the founation of my barn and now moving into the old garage and making themselves at home! Is there such a thing as the alpha female? If she leaves will the others leave? How far apart do the females normally live? (minimum distance). Anyone interested in trapping or hunting them? Any trap will work as far as I'm concerned. These animals have really taken a toll on my barn and enough is enough. There are all kinds of animals here to trap if someone is interested. Raccoon coats are more dark than light.

You may want to check at a Farm Supply store for some animal repellents. It usually comes in pellet form and will repel several types of pesky critters. I have done many things to get groundhogs off my property in TN but my favorite was when I dumped hot charcoal briquets in a big hole in the back yard and then poured cooking oil on the briquets and covered one end of the tunnel. We had a groundhog smokeout. lol I've also routed laundry water into holes; they don't like taking a bath in hot water with bleach and laundry detergent. The bleach smell stays in the soil for a few days and a bucketful of strong PineSol water does also.

I have another home in Alabama and the armadillos are horrible. They live in holes like groundhogs but they are worse because they feed on worms and grubs which means they can dig up an entire lawn overnight. My husband was out walking our dog and stepped in an armadillo hole and broke his ankle. I went to a Farm Supply store and picked up some animal repellent and sprinkled it in the most active areas and they left. There are also rattlesnakes on the property and it repels them as well.

I'm not recommending this but my father-in-law (now deceased) had a 900-acre farm and groundhogs were everywhere, making holes around the barns to feed on the corn and cattle food. Nothing he tried would get rid of them, so he changed the oil in all the tractors and dumped it into the holes. They either moved out or it killed them but they were gone.

Good luck with your eradication efforts.

[Tim_T]

You can find a licensed trapper for your area through the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Here is the link just put in the county you are from.

http://fw.ky.gov/app/trapperlandowner.aspx

[roadrunner]

We use to have a lot of ground hogs when I was a kid I used to spend hours shooting ground hogs then the coyotes moved in now we do not have any ground hogs except in town. Of course we do not have any rabitts or quails either. They both would run in a ground hog hole for cover. I do not know anything about alpha female but I think you can shoot them or trap them.

[Marlena46219]

Thanks for all of your suggestions. The location is just northeast of Anderson, or about 45 minutes noththeast of Indianapolis or the Castleton area of Indy. A dog and gun sound great to me! Is this in your area? What is a PSL? Is this like a hunter type dog? What is 300...? How many feet? There are some houses but not too close by. You mean a dog spotting them? If so, the dog would have field day for sure! There's raccoons, oppossums, rabbits, squirrels, coyotes (or so they say). The hogs live under an old peg barn that is almost fallen down completely, underneath the wooden floor that is elevated off the ground -- but I don't know if they've dug under there...I assume so. Some might tunnel into the other barn (that is in pretty good shape) but I've seen them walk in and out of that barn also. There have tunneled under the good barn's concrete floor and there is a pile of dirt four feet high in the corner from their digging. The barn lot areas are overgrown, but not so much you can't see to shoot them. This is on 40 acres.

Thanks also bass for the pellet repellent ideas. I will do that if all else fails. The DNR trappers here only trap live and there are other complications with some of these folks. If they trap an animal other than what they are contracted to trap they have chargred me $80 catch and release for a raccoon when that's not what needed tapped.

[BEAVERSCREEK44]

are you in anderson county ky.?

[Marlena46219]

Indiana, as in Madison County, between Muncie and Anderson....

[Tim_T]

Indiana, as in Madison County, between Muncie and Anderson....

Are there any covered bridges there? LOL bad humor.

You might want to check with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to see if they can help you out.

[Moveon]

That's pretty far for me to travel. But if you check the other INDIANA Hunting Forums I'd bet that you can get someone to shoot them for you.

I bought my current 222 just for hunting ground hogs. These days I'm more interested in hunting Coyotes if I can find some one that would let me shoot them on their property.

I'd guess that there are some guys in the INDY area that would like the opportunity to shoot some ground hogs.

Most of the people on fishin.com are from KY. There are a few hoosiers on here but the KY folks post about 4 or 5 times more often.

Thank you for the suggestions, however there's 40 acres and the holes are inaccessible due to overgrowth. This area is a barn and barnlot that haven't been used for 30 years but I'd like to use them in the future. I am going to try it on one hole and maybe at least he'll leave to another hole. The one in the old garage I can't find a tunnel....there are a few cracks/holes in the foundation.

Does anyone know the strory behind the alpha female? Is this true?