MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
I feel your pain Paul. They can be little devels and they are smart when it comes to staying out of the way when you are looking for them. That bomb should do the trick. But if it were me about a 110 grain hollow point would do him under. Hope some of the garden comes back for you.
Lee
If I was home all day to watch the yard I would do just that.
We had a nest of them a couple years ago in front of my neighbors house that had one big male that would come out and chase and growl at the kids when they rode their bikes by the den. Off course I'd hear the stories but never would see them when I walked over. Well one Saturday morning my neighbor and I were talking in my yard and his kids came running over to tell us they were out. Got the shotgun, we snuck thru the woods, 
The rest of the story doesn't explaining. Took out 3 of them that day. 2 in one shot!
So Mr Carva tell me how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? All joking aside I hope your gardern isnt a total loss that would really suck Dave V
Cry me a river, you've got woodchucks and I've got bears sighted in many backyards in my neighbourhood. Haven't saw him yet in my yard but I'm sure that he's around, next door neighbour called as soon as we got home to tell us he saw it in his back yard. So far we've had every big game species in New Brunswick travel or eat in our back yard. Then there's the Raccoons and I'm not talking about little cudly ones I'm talking about the ones that are the size of a small bear and climg into your back deck and rip apart your garbage and then refuse to leave when you start flicking the light on and off. So here I am in my undies (bad mental picture I know) armed with nothing more than a mop trying to scare it off. My neice hit one this spring and it did $1500 worth of damage to her car. Anyway we've got no shortage of critters to battle with up here.
Bill G.
Oh we got bears around here too! I've been lucky haven't had any in my yard but a house near by had their grill destroyed this summer. He must have been after the grease. I used to enjoy feeding the birds but don't dare put out any more seed or suet. The *#%)$^! fisher cats get into the suet as soon as you put it out. No body traps them anymore so the things are every where and have lost their fear of man. We hear them screaming from time to time. Freaks 7yr old daughter out everytime. The local grocery store always has a dozen or so missing cat posters at any given time. Um..... I wonder where they went. If you love your cats don't let them out at night people! And then there's the coyote's I won't get going on those things, but it's just a matter of time before one of them grabs a small kid. They absolutly have no fear of man around here. I'm only about 40 miles northwest of Boston so it's pretty urban here but sometimes it feels like the backwoods.
Dang all I got is the ocassional Rattle Snake, Black Widows , Brown Racluse . Sucks to be you guy's 
Went out to my vegie garden this morning before I left for work and 85% of it is gone
I've been busy and haven't looked at it in two days. Little Bast _ _ d was busy! He just moved in and I found his new hole in a sandy part of my yard. The pile he pushed out must be 3 feet high. Very destructive creatures. He's in for a world of hurt tonight when I get home. A special delivery of toxic gas is coming his way.
Sorry, Just had to vent
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