UPDATE: THE GROUNDHOG HAS ESCAPED!!!! http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2013/05/bridgeton_groundhog_escapes_fr.html#incart_river
Posted on 05/06/2013 8:57:05 PM PDT by Beowulf9
BRIDGETON — It started with kids looking across the street at a groundhog in the Bridgeton Midget Football parking lot on Saturday.
They crossed the street to get a closer look.
They had never seen a groundhog before.
What they didn’t count on was the groundhog chasing them back across the street to where Bridgeton Little League was playing.
Bedlam broke out.
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UPDATE: THE GROUNDHOG HAS ESCAPED!!!! http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2013/05/bridgeton_groundhog_escapes_fr.html#incart_river
Groondhogge bites can be very nasti.
20gr 17HMR. Done.
(And quite fun, too!)
The groundhog gained on Hemple, who went to his car, jumped inside and locked the doors
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I didn’t know groundhogs could open doors, LOL
New cartridge out, Winchester .17. Based on a .27 nail gun cartridge they have been manufacturing, it will push a 20gr to 3000fps and a 25gr to 2600fps.
Back when NJ actually allowed varment hunting with a rifle, my dad and I used a 22 hornet on these creatures. Today I would opt for a 22-250 but fortunately I don’t live anywhere near NJ now. In fact, I am not sure they even allow anyone to hunt with a rifle there now either.
Probably a momma, babies nearby. It’s spring.
That’s pretty good for a quadruped.
The movie Groundhog Day now playing for free at Crackle:
http://www.crackle.com/c/groundhogday
Starring Bill Murray
We had a ground hog in the back yard for a while and he became known by the name Wilbur. One day Wilbur was nibbling on some ground cover when all of a sudden he takes off running like a mad man toward his den. To my amazement out of the sky/woods here comes this tree falling right into my back yard right where he was foraging only a split second before. I have never seen a tree just fall over before and i doubt anyone here ever has. I just wonder if Al Gore fell over would anyone hear him?
The comments to this newspaper’s story are priceless. Here’s one: “please. ground hogs are all bluster. kind of like our governor.
they will try to chase you, but it’s a bluff.
if you stop and yell at them, they’ll usually run away.”
No one had a bat?
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