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Title: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: MillCreek on February 08, 2018, 12:40:48 AM

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/02/the-groundhog-day-groundhog-just-tried-to-escape-and-bit-a-journalist/?utm_content=inf_3_3115_2&utm_source=SocialEdge&utm_campaign=influencer&tse_id=INF_2917d6200b7411e8b29907daa8112220

There is more than one groundhog that comes out of a burrow to predict spring.  Who knew?

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: Jim147 on February 08, 2018, 01:24:29 AM

 .22 LR has worked well for me. 22 mag if they are at a distance

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: Sideways_8 on February 08, 2018, 02:22:15 AM

920 JDJ.

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: charby on February 08, 2018, 02:49:50 AM

.243 Winchester, killed many with that.

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: K Frame on February 08, 2018, 06:34:40 AM

I've killed groundhogs with .22 LR, .22-250, .243, .220 Swift, .30-06, .300 Savage, and .25-20.

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: Fly320s on February 08, 2018, 08:12:57 AM

My go to last year was .300BLK subsonic through a suppressed SBR AR15.  Fun for me, but not for the groundhogs.

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: RoadKingLarry on February 08, 2018, 08:15:37 AM

.22LR works just fine.
In this case it was plain old Federal bulk stuff.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4677/40040548301_da7a6f3672_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/241fh24)

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: TommyGunn on February 08, 2018, 11:58:17 AM

.50 BMG.   






It's the only way to be sure.

Title: Re: What caliber for groundhog?
Post by: bedlamite on February 08, 2018, 12:59:52 PM

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on February 08, 2018, 08:15:37 AM

.22LR works just fine.

Unpossible. You need at least a GAU-8