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2006-05-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Big Rodents Overrun Washington Seniors
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Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-31 09:24|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Can I be first to say "Marmots why do the hate us?"
Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-05-31 09:52||   2006-05-31 09:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I used to feed them rodents in the summer up in the mountains, they can grow real fat (not large, fat, furry soccer balls-like, hé hé).
Funny thing is, they're quite aggressive when threatened, as noted in the article, they can easily make dogs flee, and they whistle very well to alert the others.
On a final note, one of my farmer relatives (last one remaining) had a pet marmot with her for a long time, used to sit at the table and eat with her, using its paws to chew. This was long ago, I don't remember it, but it is still with her... stuffed, that is.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-31 09:56||   2006-05-31 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 How do they taste? Like Chicken???
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-31 09:57||   2006-05-31 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 More like beaver.
Posted by ed 2006-05-31 10:00||   2006-05-31 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 No match for a pit bull.
Posted by wxjames 2006-05-31 11:38||   2006-05-31 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Damm woodchucks, digging burrows in our hay pasture for the horses to break a leg in, building mounds that dull the mower blades. Hate them, we do.

Of course, on the farm we had no restrictions on shooting them. Savage Model 99, 250-3000 with a 87 grain softpoint moving at 3000 fps. The chucks looked like you shoved a hand grenade up their ass.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-05-31 11:58||   2006-05-31 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I used to use a sweet Remington 222 Magnum with Leupold optics. If you catch 'em right under the chin, it flips them backwards out of their hole.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-31 12:49||   2006-05-31 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Posted by Chang Ominesing2659 2006-05-31 13:00||   2006-05-31 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't have trouble with groundhogs on my farm. That's the ONLY thing the coyotes are good for. 22 hollowpoints work well, as does an AR-15. Their hides make excellant shoe-strings, banjo heads, and decent bass strings. They DO NOT taste good.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2006-05-31 13:11||   2006-05-31 13:11|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 - Something tells me you have FAR too much time on your hands. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-05-31 13:59|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-05-31 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Lol - not really, I just took the week off. I couldn't resist the opportunity this thread presented, lol.
Posted by Chang Ominesing2659 2006-05-31 14:07||   2006-05-31 14:07|| Front Page Top

#12 All right. Who will be the first to come up with the Marmot-sniper picture? I'ma bettin' that Fred's photoshop will be workin' overtime on that one. The kitty sniper is hilarious enough, but the mental image of a marmot sniper sends me over the edge. I can't wait!
Posted by BA 2006-05-31 14:32||   2006-05-31 14:32|| Front Page Top

#13 All right. Who will be the first to come up with the Marmot-sniper picture? I'ma bettin' that Fred's photoshop will be workin' overtime on that one. The kitty sniper is hilarious enough, but the mental image of a marmot sniper sends me over the edge. I can't wait!

Ok, since I'm on a pic-posting tangent :

Not really a marmot, but a sniper rodent anyway (HT .com for this one IIRC)


Then a stoner marmot (not that I condone drug use, of course)
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-31 14:57||   2006-05-31 14:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Btw, there is a relatively famous clip of "ennemy snipers" being sniped by .50, which is actually some groundhogs (or a marmot-like obnoxious critter) being shot at a long distance and literally blown to pieces, I don't remember if this was posted here.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-31 15:00||   2006-05-31 15:00|| Front Page Top

#15 The 5th SFG(A) flash is a real touch of class, lol.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-31 15:00||   2006-05-31 15:00|| Front Page Top

#16 You NEED to see this.

http://sonoguy.tripod.com/
Posted by Gene the Moron 2006-05-31 15:05||   2006-05-31 15:05|| Front Page Top

#17 http://www.geocities.com/beaver_militia/beaverbomb.html
Posted by Gene the Moron 2006-05-31 15:13||   2006-05-31 15:13|| Front Page Top

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