Ground Hogs

[Will Tell]

Started hunting Ground Hogs, when's the best time to catch them out? I've killed quite a few while hunting with my bows when they got stupid enough to let me get close enough.lol

[Eric Krewson]

I used to kill a lot of them after a rain.

[JoJoDapyro]

Cheetos?

[wildman]

Don't just toss them , they are tasty and covered in some great leather when tanned.

[JoJoDapyro]

I doubt they are ground hogs here. Perhaps a type of marmot. Cheetos worked well.

[Zuma]

Where they are not pressured that feed all day
evening may be the worst.
When I was a teen I liked to hunt them in apple orchards where there
was the cover of the trees to sneak behind.
In a hay field I would walk nonchalantly, even talk
and whistle if I saw a hog watchin me from a distance.
When I got close enough to make him duck in , I would
 run around behind the hole and wait till he stuck his
head up for a look, then ZAP.
Be prepared to play tug of war for the arrow.
The hides can make a dandy jacket. They look just like gray fox.
Zuma

[JoJoDapyro]

Maybe they were ground hogs. 

[Knoll]

Thanks for posting this ... brought back some good memories from my youth!

[chamookman]

Ground Hog rawhide makes a superb bowstring ! Bob

[Will Tell]

A lot of people eat the young ones and leave the older ones in the field for the buzzards. We are overrun with them and farmers lose a lot of soy beans. It's normal to kill twenty hogs out of a good sized field in a summer with a rifle. I walk along the edges and try to catch them.

[crooketarrow]

  I've pop-ed 100's with a rifle. Maybe that many with a bow. My best selfbow year was 19 killed, 6 wound I quit counting Miss's.

  You'll say noway I,m a betted and have won well over 100 dollars. USEING THIS LITTLE TRICK GRANDDADDY SHOW ME AS A KID.

 
Really simple for you sucks for the hogs

  You've got to be down wind. Hogs do smell. Helps to be there before day light ( first timers)before he comes out. By first timers I mean the first time he's seen salt at his hole for sure.

 You go for the first time there. Just take pound of salt make a little pile. And wait him out usually not long in the mornings.

  Table salts not much of a attractor for anything but once it's found. Hogs will stay and eat it until it's gone,then dig a hold. So that first time Likely he's never seen salt. I seen first timers stay 1/2 hour before I'd shoot him. I couldn't stand it anymore.

 We use to start at salt lick at their mounds keep them replenishes they go to it as soon as they come up out of their holes most times. Just put the salt where you can shoot it.. Me and friends killed so many. When I was in my ground hog faze. They totally disappeared on most farms we hunted.