Positive id Made today.

[K191145]

FYI transporting live wild animals is against the law unless you have a Wildlife Capture Transport Release permit. That is unless you capture and release on your own land.

 

Don't ask don't tell.

[Lumber_Jack]

Don't ask don't tell.

Still illegal


Plus I think it's unethical to take a varmint off your land and put it on someone else's.

[K191145]

Still illegal


Plus I think it's unethical to take a varmint off your land and put it on someone else's.

 

State game reserve. The only other option is to kill it.

[enfield]

My 'soil' is so poor that if I trapped a groundhog on it, I could hire him out as a hard rock miner.

[TNWNGR]

Your best option is to just shoot the ground hog and bury it after all its not as if they're an endangered species is it?

[K191145]

Your best option is to just shoot the ground hog and bury it after all its not as if they're an endangered species is it?

 

I know a few people who would eat it, you can legally kill a pest animal on your land.

[none]

FYI transporting live wild animals is against the law unless you have a Wildlife Capture Transport Release permit. That is unless you capture and release on your own land.

Trap it out back. Release by front gate if it wonders off well at that point it relocated all by itself.

[Spiffy]

Poison tipped crossbow bolt using a Twinkies as bait is the only acceptable way. 

[R_Bert]

I jumped out of a tree with a bandanna around my head and a Bowie in my teeth. It was a glorious battle.

[gregintenn]

Still illegal


Plus I think it's unethical to take a varmint off your land and put it on someone else's.

Right. If you don't want him, chances are your neighbor won't be too happy about receiving him as a gift from you either.

[Lumber_Jack]

Right. If you don't want him, chances are your neighbor won't be too happy about receiving him as a gift from you either.

Exactly. If you don't want it, kill it

[mikegideon]

I jumped out of a tree with a bandanna around my head and a Bowie in my teeth. It was a glorious battle.

 

Nothin' better than Tarzan style.

[BJB]

Funny and true story
Years ago I ownedMisty Valley Stables, a 60 ac horse farm in Lee Co VA. One day my kids and I were looking for ground hog holes and filling them with rock then dirt to keep our horses from stepping in them. That can ruin a good horse. My daughter (then 12yo) found one and started filling it with rocks. Flipping ground hog came out of the hole and chased her, she jumped in the water trough to get away from him. I was laughing so hard I couldn't help her. My son finished the whisper pig off with a well placed home run type swing of an ax

[Gun Smith]

Of the few that I have had, I relocated them, in shall we say, more  urban areas.    City folk love seeing the critters.  Even though they are not endangered, they are not over populated either.    Perhaps the coyotes are keeping them thinned out.  

 

 

And, by the way, when I did relocate them I did not know it was illegal.   Guess that's out now.  

Edited May 27, 2015 by Gun Smith

[K191145]

Right. If you don't want him, chances are your neighbor won't be too happy about receiving him as a gift from you either.

 

I live about 5 miles from the Cheatham Game Reserve, what about that? I'm pretty sure there's already a few thousand groundhogs there. I have only seen my ground hog just once earlier this year, I put up a 3 ft, chicken wire fence around my cucumber patch which the groundhog loves the cucumbers and vines. Last year tomatoes and cucumbers didn't do well at all around here so I let him eat on them but not this year, I hate to do it but if I see him trying to get at my garden this year with all the work I put into it i'm taking him out since the stupid law says you can't catch and release.

[crossfire]

     http://www.tn.gov/twra/smallgamehunt.html

 

Looks like year round  and no limit

Edited May 27, 2015 by crossfire

[peejman]

I live about 5 miles from the Cheatham Game Reserve, what about that? I'm pretty sure there's already a few thousand groundhogs there. I have only seen my ground hog just once earlier this year, I put up a 3 ft, chicken wire fence around my cucumber patch which the groundhog loves the cucumbers and vines. Last year tomatoes and cucumbers didn't do well at all around here so I let him eat on them but not this year, I hate to do it but if I see him trying to get at my garden this year with all the work I put into it i'm taking him out since the stupid law says you can't catch and release.

 

 

If it's not doing significant damage, leave it be.  If it is, call TWRA.  They'll probably tell you to shoot it.  If you don't want to, they might come trap it and kill it themselves.  Either way, it'll die.  But as stated several times, it's illegal to transport game animals without a permit.  If you get caught, TWRA/USFWS will probably confiscate your vehicle and fine you.  High speed lead poisoning is much easier. 

[K191145]

If it's not doing significant damage, leave it be.  If it is, call TWRA.  They'll probably tell you to shoot it.  If you don't want to, they might come trap it and kill it themselves.  Either way, it'll die.  But as stated several times, it's illegal to transport game animals without a permit.  If you get caught, TWRA/USFWS will probably confiscate your vehicle and fine you.  High speed lead poisoning is much easier. 

 

Well i'm not going to trap it and relocate it but it's a stupid law, there should be a place to relocate them like a game reserve without paying for some permit. So now if I see it again and it's trying to eat my garden i,ve worked hard on i'll have to break the law by discharging a firearm in the city limits. I'll claim self defense, the groundhog was charging me. Besides the charge for that is alot less than the charge for trapping and releasing it it appears.

[peejman]

Well i'm not going to trap it and relocate it but it's a stupid law, there should be a place to relocate them like a game reserve without paying for some permit. So now if I see it again and it's trying to eat my garden i,ve worked hard on i'll have to break the law by discharging a firearm in the city limits. I'll claim self defense, the groundhog was charging me. Besides the charge for that is alot less than the charge for trapping and releasing it it appears.

 

 

It's the same reason hog hunting is so screwed up here.... people transporting or releasing them without a permit.  It prevents the spread of diseases and areas getting over-run with specific types of critter. 

 

Use an air rifle.

[K191145]

HEEEEE'S  BAAAAACK!!

 

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This was done in one day, the blue bottle is some cheapo fabric softener I slung around his hole. If he keeps on he will dig under the blocks and drop the corner of the shed. After that I took a bucket of cat litter box clumps and turds and slung them in the den, then I went out and bought a bottle of ammonia and slung it around the den, he's gotta give up on that spot I would say. I saw him earlier eating in the ditch below the shed, I grabed my ol trusty Crossman with the $10 Tasco scope, gave it 4 pumps, loaded a pellet and the bastid caught a glimps of me and took off. I have cucumber vines planted close with a 2' tall chicken wire fence around them just for him, I know he can dig but he can't jump. I also have tomatoes planted with a 5' fence, I poured ammonia arount the perimiter of the fence.

I hate to do it but he's about to cost me if he drops my shed, not to mention all the work on the tomatoes and cucumbers so i'm going to try to run him off with fire crackers and smelly stuff but if that doesn't work i'll have to drop him.

[mikegideon]

[crossfire]

4 pumps won't even get his attention. :eek:

[K191145]

4 pumps won't even get his attention. :eek:

 

That was just a butt stinger if he hadn't run off. Next time it will be my Ruger 10/22 with a little better $50. Simmons scope.

[john455]

shoot him and eat him seriously good bbq meat kinda greasy so great for grilling.

[Ray Z]

OK, I got a question. How did you get that aluminum hot enough to melt?