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Originally posted by seretogis
By the way, groundhog hunting is perhaps the most wasteful and lowest form of hunting. :/
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Until you are riding a fine $2000.00 horse 20 miles from any civilization and it steps into a ground hog hole breaking its leg and landing on top of you then kicks its way off of you, suffering and screaming in pain with it leg still stuck in the hole while you try to retrieve your rifle from under it to end its suffering, you will never understand why people shoot/trap/poison all animals that live in burrows.
Many people use the ground hog and prairie dog as targets to make themselves better shots when it comes to shooting game animals. The animals are small requiring better shot placement. They are at various distances, helping to train you as to how far you are from your target. Also you are in a lot of instances removing the animals from an area of rangeland that carries many types of livestock which can be injured by the burrows or by the diseases that the animals carry.
My preference has been toward the 220 swift or the 222 both are very fast flat shooting rounds that in the right rifle are very accurate. For closer shooting the 22 Magnum or even the 22 long rifle are good rounds.