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Coyotes really look different in Pennsylvania
Coyotes really look different in Pennsylvania
Dieseltech56
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Man he didn't get to see much of 2019
That Punxatawny Phil?
Mohnton, PA home of Maple Grove Racetrack. I used to live 8 miles West in Reinholds
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Poor little guy... 
Maybe if you go back tomorrow, it will happen again and again and again and again. Happy ground hog day!
cmj8591
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I hope you had enough gun!!
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petemacmahon
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Coyotes really look different in Pennsylvania
- Sorry, yeah that's a Ground Hog or a Woodchuck ...depending on your druthers. I saw lots of deer & turkey, but nada coyotes
500SNW
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Poor little guy...
Agreed.He's not a predator, and he wasn't bothering anybody.
Dieseltech56
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Tell that to anyone who has ever grown a crop 
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^^^ Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight... 
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Shot a groundhog some years back with my family hairloom muzzle loader that is now about 9mm after freshing out the rifling. (I use patched OO buck projectiles.) Took it back to my cousin's place, skinned it and saved the meat. Understand now where the "hog" comes from. Fat critters! But otherwise it made up for the lack of squirrels that day.
Ground Hog..Whistle Pig..Woodchuck..Prarie Dog
Whatever you want to call them (I always understood that the name varied according to where you live in the USA) these animals can be devastating to farmers, especially dairy farmers.
Growing up in southwestern New York state (right on the Pennsy line) as a teenager I had a after school "job" from spring to fall when these guys are active and that was just plain sitting at the edge of a large pasture. I was paid $.25 cents per tail...so to make much money, needed lots of tails. Most shots were 100 to 150 yards but I had an old Savage in .22 Hornet (remember the butterknife bolt handle?) and even iron sights usually could bag these guys.
The farmer had anywhere from $300 to $1000 each in those cows (and bulls) and those woodchucks excavate a very large hole. Cow steps in the hole while grazing, breaks leg, and bingo...maybe $50 for low grade hamburg.
The reason for the tail was for my cash ticket, but the other tool carried was a WWII/Korea Army entrenching tool (the one with the folding shovel head). Pop the tail for my bag, leave the chuck in the hole, bury back all the dirt, tamp flat. That was the deal....all for a quarter.
Inhumane? Maybe by todays standards, but a way of life in southwestern New York in the early 1960's.
I apologize for high-jacking the Original Post, but could see this thread drifting a different way.
Whatever you want to call them (I always understood that the name varied according to where you live in the USA) these animals can be devastating to farmers, especially dairy farmers.
Growing up in southwestern New York state (right on the Pennsy line) as a teenager I had a after school "job" from spring to fall when these guys are active and that was just plain sitting at the edge of a large pasture. I was paid $.25 cents per tail...so to make much money, needed lots of tails. Most shots were 100 to 150 yards but I had an old Savage in .22 Hornet (remember the butterknife bolt handle?) and even iron sights usually could bag these guys.
The farmer had anywhere from $300 to $1000 each in those cows (and bulls) and those woodchucks excavate a very large hole. Cow steps in the hole while grazing, breaks leg, and bingo...maybe $50 for low grade hamburg.
The reason for the tail was for my cash ticket, but the other tool carried was a WWII/Korea Army entrenching tool (the one with the folding shovel head). Pop the tail for my bag, leave the chuck in the hole, bury back all the dirt, tamp flat. That was the deal....all for a quarter.
Inhumane? Maybe by todays standards, but a way of life in southwestern New York in the early 1960's.
I apologize for high-jacking the Original Post, but could see this thread drifting a different way.
I have a friend in the central valley in California who makes a nice $ shooting squirrels on almond farms. Local farmers there have told me that a few squirrels can wipe out a couple acres of almond crop in a relatively short time. So sometimes, when it comes to critters or livelihood, critters lose.
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rubiranch
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They’re pests, pure and simple. I killed a bunch at my last house, along with possums. No I don’t eat either. 
I did show a bit of mercy one year, a weak moment I guess, when I relocated a pregnant one, across a lake and highway so she wouldn’t return.
I did show a bit of mercy one year, a weak moment I guess, when I relocated a pregnant one, across a lake and highway so she wouldn’t return.
