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Bruce
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Couldn't work any worse than everything I've tried so far.
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Bruce
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I set up the game camera in the little barn where the trap is. Will see if the chuck is even using that tunnel entrance/exit. If not that would explain why it has not gone in the trap after the "can't resist it" cantaloupe.
greybeard
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Depends. With beaver, a 330 will usually break their neck, but If they somehow manage to just get a foot in it, you have to finish them off when you find them in the trap and they can make a mess of the wire and chain anchoring the trap down. I suspect a groundhog will be the same way.
I don't know much about those critters, but I'm pretty dang sure the groundhog just don't give one rat's behind how much suffering you will endure if you step off in their hole and break your leg.
mystang89
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Yep, You're right. Can't stand the things.
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Bruce
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That last part is certainly true. I'm sure if they think about me it is only from the aspect that I am a predator to be avoided. And they could DO SO by deciding to live elsewhere
But they aren't smart creatures.From what I can tell a 220 is the appropriate size for a groundhog or coon.
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Bruce
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Rassa frassa no good woodchucks. DW and DD1 were standing out on the deck behind the house about 7:15. I had gone down to get all the chickens in behind the front gate, snack them and the alpacas and close the door on the north end of the barn. When I came back up DW pointed and said "look". Yeah the damned WC was out by the wood pile. Now she knows about both of them. Makes it harder to off them without questions. Moving the trap out by the woodpile tonight.
Well, since she/they've only seen it once, they might think it was just passing through... 
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Bruce
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Um, sure, I'll rent that thought. For a short time. We've had these things far too much for her to believe that, DD1 as well. I don't recall the exact exchange but when I got to:
"Kill it!"
DD1 wailed "Don't kill it".
I suggested throwing it at DD1 and she could keep it for a pet.
Of course you already know what I am up against. If it were legal to relocate them off property AND I could trap it, I'd put the trap in her car and tell her to drive it at least 5 miles away and release it. She can be responsible for screwing someone else with the "donation".
She probably doesn't care if I step into a tunnel and break a leg any more than the woodchuck does.
"Kill it!"
DD1 wailed "Don't kill it".
I suggested throwing it at DD1 and she could keep it for a pet.
Of course you already know what I am up against. If it were legal to relocate them off property AND I could trap it, I'd put the trap in her car and tell her to drive it at least 5 miles away and release it. She can be responsible for screwing someone else with the "donation".
She probably doesn't care if I step into a tunnel and break a leg any more than the woodchuck does.
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Bruce
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No groundhog in the trap this morning 
Will have to close the trap up. DW doesn't work on Sundays so I couldn't sneak out and deal with one if it got trapped overnight.
Will have to close the trap up. DW doesn't work on Sundays so I couldn't sneak out and deal with one if it got trapped overnight.
greybeard
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I'm sure if they think about me it is only from the aspect that I am a predator to be avoided. And they could DO SO by deciding to live elsewhere
Evidently, not exactly accurate.
You don't really have a woodchuck problem. You have a people problem.
