Woodchuck's a plenty (Bangor, Patten: tornado, live, to eat)

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by Nor'Eastah

Looks like you need some target practice, Maineah! Git yerself out on that range you have, that makes you such a "bad neighbor"!

Now that those high-stylin' house-sellers have flown the coop for fancier digs, time for you to get serious about those 'chucks. Next report, I want to hear that you've HIT twice as many as you've MISSED!

I know I do need some shooting time that's for sure. I got new glasses and since then I'm four for five so I'm getting better! Before the glasses I was taking three shots before I'd finally get one hit! I did have to move the cross hairs over a couple of clicks to the right. Excuses Excuses!!! My miss was today at 125 yards freehand. Not a high percentage shot! The one I hit today was about 90 yards leaning on the truck hood.

[bringselpup]

I ever so carefully weeded last week before we took an overnight to Islesboro and came back to 2/3 of my beets chewed to near nothing. We hadn't had a lick of trouble until we were away either. It's as if whoever did it was waiting for the place to be quiet. Cleanly cut off so I suspect Mr. Cottontail, I figure I would have spotted a woodchuck by now if it that's what it was.

I've got a 40 yr old Marlin Glenfield model 60 by the door. Some years ago I put a fiberglass stock, a bipod, and an 8x zoom scope on it. I haven't shot it in years but it could just be time to park a few targets in the garden and start sightin it in.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by msina

Do you live in a woodchuck resettlement area? Maybe people trap their varmints and free them in your yard! Perhaps the vittles are so good at your place they invite their friends!

LOL ! Probably the State is dropping them off here! A friend of mine who owns land in LaGrange found out his land really was being used to resettle beavers trapped by the State biologists and wardens. He was not happy to find 3 new dams and a pile of girdled poplars when he went to check it last summer.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

When I was a kid the farmer next door had a monkey. The monkey lived in the barn with the cows. He loved to chase squirrels. He would spot a squirrel on the lawn and take off after him. The squirrel would stop on the first branch and the monkey would slap him on the rear end on the way by. All the squirrels in our neighborhood were paranoid. In the winter the monkey would curl up and sleep on a cow.

The next farm over had a big airedale dog. The dog liked to hunt woodchucks. He would sneak around behind the stone walls and try to get between the chuck and his hole. Then he would charge after the chuck and get him.

The monkey liked to go down in the potato field and pick potato beetles off the plants and eat them. One day the airedale spotted the monkey in the field. He snuck around the stone wall and when he was sure he was close enough he went for that monkey. The monkey saw him coming and paid no attention. When the airedale was in mid pounce the monkey went straight up about 10 feet. The dog skidded to a stop and the monkey landed on the dog. The monkey started clawing and biting the dog who spun in circles. Then he took off for home just screaming and howling with the monkey looking like a rodeo rider. When they got to the stone wall at the far end of the field the monkey jumped off and went back to eating potato beetles.

I never saw that airedale go after another woodchuck. People tell me I should write these down as they come to me. All this stuff is true.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

When I was a kid the farmer next door had a monkey. The monkey lived in the barn with the cows. He loved to chase squirrels. He would spot a squirrel on the lawn and take off after him. The squirrel would stop on the first branch and the monkey would slap him on the rear end on the way by. All the squirrels in our neighborhood were paranoid. In the winter the monkey would curl up and sleep on a cow.

The next farm over had a big airedale dog. The dog liked to hunt woodchucks. He would sneak around behind the stone walls and try to get between the chuck and his hole. Then he would charge after the chuck and get him.

The monkey liked to go down in the potato field and pick potato beetles off the plants and eat them. One day the airedale spotted the monkey in the field. He snuck around the stone wall and when he was sure he was close enough he went for that monkey. The monkey saw him coming and paid no attention. When the airedale was in mid pounce the monkey went straight up about 10 feet. The dog skidded to a stop and the monkey landed on the dog. The monkey started clawing and biting the dog who spun in circles. Then he took off for home just screaming and howling with the monkey looking like a rodeo rider. When they got to the stone wall at the far end of the field the monkey jumped off and went back to eating potato beetles.

I never saw that airedale go after another woodchuck. People tell me I should write these down as they come to me. All this stuff is true.

LOL NMLM! What a picture that would be! I wonder if DW would let me get a monkey?!

[Shuffler]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

When I was a kid the farmer next door had a monkey. The monkey lived in the barn with the cows. He loved to chase squirrels. He would spot a squirrel on the lawn and take off after him. The squirrel would stop on the first branch and the monkey would slap him on the rear end on the way by. All the squirrels in our neighborhood were paranoid. In the winter the monkey would curl up and sleep on a cow.

The next farm over had a big airedale dog. The dog liked to hunt woodchucks. He would sneak around behind the stone walls and try to get between the chuck and his hole. Then he would charge after the chuck and get him.

The monkey liked to go down in the potato field and pick potato beetles off the plants and eat them. One day the airedale spotted the monkey in the field. He snuck around the stone wall and when he was sure he was close enough he went for that monkey. The monkey saw him coming and paid no attention. When the airedale was in mid pounce the monkey went straight up about 10 feet. The dog skidded to a stop and the monkey landed on the dog. The monkey started clawing and biting the dog who spun in circles. Then he took off for home just screaming and howling with the monkey looking like a rodeo rider. When they got to the stone wall at the far end of the field the monkey jumped off and went back to eating potato beetles.

I never saw that airedale go after another woodchuck. People tell me I should write these down as they come to me. All this stuff is true.

that there is some excellent material for the Animal Planet channel....I about fell out of my chair just reading it....that is some funny stuff!!!

[Mainer61]

I love woodchucks...I have two that eat in my garden and I also feed them...live and let live

[msina]

I like woodchucks also, even named the one I'd see most mornings after a man I knew (both were short, round and brown with moustaches). But,... then they bring the family, and the friends,... soon you're outnumbered and you can't grow a dayum thing that's not on the "buffet".

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by Mainer61

I love woodchucks...I have two that eat in my garden and I also feed them...live and let live

Live and let live unless you're trying to feed yourselves from your garden then you'll see them for the varmints they are. Blast them!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Did you hear about the dog in Patten the other day? A small twister came through, blew down many trees and tore the roof off a farmer's barn. Then it sucked his dog right up into the air. About an hour later the dog came back just shaking all over and totally freaked out. He was uninjured, so he must have landed in a pond.

I bet that dog freaks out for the rest of his life every time we have a thunderstorm.

Hey, I can't make this stuff up. It was in the Bangor Daily News.