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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Mar 7, 2013 18:23:55 GMT -7
turd!
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Post by broper on Mar 7, 2013 19:07:33 GMT -7
You wouldn't believe where I shot it.............. in the head! Oh, no I was out in the hills shooting whistle pigs with my unk and we saw it run in a hole. Not a rock around for miles. It looked like a badger hole. We watched for about half a minute and he stuck his head up. Unk handed me his 17HMR and I shot it in the head at about 20 yds. We couldn't believe a rockchuck was out there.
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Post by 72camaro on Mar 7, 2013 21:06:51 GMT -7
Cool. 20yds, isn't that a little closer than usual for those guys and you just put your hand in the hole and drag him out and hope he is really dead, not faking it?
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Post by broper on Mar 8, 2013 5:52:46 GMT -7
Twenty yds. is real close and it's very unusual to find one out among the whistle pigs. We saw a spray as the bullet hit and it slid down into the hole. I didn't want to reach down in the hole to grab it.
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Post by 72camaro on Mar 8, 2013 7:46:21 GMT -7
I've been thinking about bringing long needle nose to pull some of these guys out. What do you think? Got a pair about a foot long. I'm having a hard time thinking I'm going to put my hand in a hole and hope they are dead and find out they are not. We've left a few whistle pigs like that.
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Post by broper on Mar 8, 2013 10:53:25 GMT -7
Last year we shot a badger that fell back into the hole. I was going to grab a leg and pull it out and as I reached for it another badger in the hole growled at me. Kinda scary! I think I'd want something longer than a foot long, if one was still alive it could easily cover a foot pretty fast.
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