Posted: 5/29/2016 10:41:56 PM EDT
| I've got a groundhog burrowed under my house, and he has to go. Shooting him isn't an option. So how do you get rid of these guys? |
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Live trap and apples. Here in Michigan they must be killed on the property they were trapped on. Transporting live wildlife in Michigan is verboten. Check your local laws.
ETA: I use something similar to this http://www.walmart.com/ip/48095851?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227035503942&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=t&wl3=75971210194&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=176362901314&veh=sem |
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Sounds like you need a snare, or a live trap and a trash can full of water.
Or a suppressed .22... This bugger was trying to get under the fence, into the dog yard with a very upset boxer on the opposite side of the fence. Chattering his teeth and being pretty aggressive for a rodent...He got popped with a CCI HP sub. 
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anhydrous ammonia works very well if you have a friend.
you could also use a gopher bomb of use a leg hold trap you could make a deadfall easily too. Bow and Arrow would work. Foundation repair folks can pump concrete in fast enough to drown the rodent and it will fix all the burrows he has made. |
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Under the house, what could go wrong? |
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Have a live trap on the way. The gopher bombs seem like they might be a better route, but I didn't know about them before I ordered the trap.
My only concern is that the burrow is right against my house. I would rather not find out the hard way that the smoke will leak into my basement. On the other hand, I have a radon abatement system, I wonder if that would also draw away the smoke... |
| Local animal control officer told about another deputy who poured a gallon of pine oil cleaner into the borrow of one in his yard. His wife called him and was laughing so hard she almost couldn't talk. The ground hog was scratching and trying rub the smell of and squealing. It ran off into the woods and never returned. |
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Local animal control officer told about another deputy who poured a gallon of pine oil cleaner into the borrow of one in his yard. His wife called him and was laughing so hard she almost couldn't talk. The ground hog was scratching and trying rub the smell of and squealing. It ran off into the woods and never returned. 
I think I have some that I never had a use for... unitl now. 
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i want one of those sooooo bad! I wish I had gophers so i would have a reason to buy it. I may have to buy some moles and turn them loose in the yard |
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Have a live trap on the way. The gopher bombs seem like they might be a better route, but I didn't know about them before I ordered the trap. My only concern is that the burrow is right against my house. I would rather not find out the hard way that the smoke will leak into my basement. On the other hand, I have a radon abatement system, I wonder if that would also draw away the smoke... Gopher bombs don't work worth a shit. I've actually had a gopher pull a gopher bomb from one end of his burrow, drag it 20' underground, and kick it out the other end. And yes, it indeed went off. That's how I know where the other end was. Get a conibear trap. |
| Take a couple empty glass bottles and put them in the hole(s), bust the bottles with your shovel and then throw a few shovels of dirt in on top of the busted glass. The woodchuck will dig out the same hole and cut his front paws on the glass and die. The blood won't coagulate in their front paws and they will bleed to death. An old German man taught me this when I was a kid in Conn. and I helped him winterize the lake houses. Conn. used to have a bounty on woodchucks when I was a kid and they paid you $2 for a left front paw - because of what I said above. |
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Quoted: Take a couple empty glass bottles and put them in the hole(s), bust the bottles with your shovel and then throw a few shovels of dirt in on top of the busted glass. The woodchuck will dig out the same hole and cut his front paws on the glass and die. The blood won't coagulate in their front paws and they will bleed to death. An old German man taught me this when I was a kid in Conn. and I helped him winterize the lake houses. Conn. used to have a bounty on woodchucks when I was a kid and they paid you $2 for a left front paw - because of what I said above. Yep busted glass works very well on a myriad of burrowing rodents |
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I know this won't be a popular opinion, because most Arfcom is zealous about killing foxes and coyotes on site, but this is the reason I don't kill the them around my property. They control the rabbit, gopher, ground hog, and other rodent populations. It's amazing how nature works to maintain homeostasis. Since this guy is under your house, I would go with a trap and bait. |
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I moved into a house that had been vacant for some time. Lucky me.. a whole groundhog family had moved in under my deck and around my yard.
I box trapped them with cantaloupe or another potent smelling fruit. Don't release them after trapping them only to make them someone else's problem. Invest in some 22 Shorts if you have a bolt gun that will shoot them. They are only about 700 feet per second and amazingly quiet even from an unsuppressed gun. If you live somewhere you absolutely can not discharge a firearm you should find some other way to kill them. Groundhogs are worthless. Click here for great video of long range groundhog kills in Central Pennsylvania. |
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Eh, you can hand load a 22 short or 22 long into a 22lr firearm. Won't cycle the action of a semi auto and if worried about noise you can hold the action closed, but pay attention to things cause I am sure someone will manage to do something brilliant with this concept. I prefer 22 long cb rounds for dispatching stuff cause they are going to feed in a semi auto when I manually cycle the action. 22 shorts I tend to just use in my tube fed marlin bolt action, it is labelled to work with shorts, longs, and long rifle and does well with them. But a tube full of shorts is a lot of rounds. |
| Shooting isn't an option here. The conibears and glass ideas would work, but I have a dog, friends bring their dogs over, and the neighbors dog is allowed in the yard. Live trap and a garbage can full of water sounds like my best bet, but I might resort to some of the other options if that fails. Thanks for all the suggestions! |