What to put in a trap to lure a woodchuck

Submitted by Mainegal on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 12:20
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Can you please repost it as I have one that I need to trap. Thanks
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WI Thanks, I sure needed a

Submitted by Mainegal on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 06:53.
WI Thanks, I sure needed a good laugh this am.... Randy I need to target practice I guess and see if I can hit anything. I shot at him a few times yesterday, thought I had hit my shed the 2nd time but there are no holes in it....lol I might of hit him but didn't see any blood. He went under my shed, guess I will know if it starts smelling out there with this heat that we are having finally now that school is starting, it's going to get hot.

I would like to get in a

Submitted by randy cobb on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 22:26.
I would like to get in a little practice also.  I used to belong to a gun club and I could go out there and burn up a little powder, but I let that go over 5 years ago.
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wood chucks chuck

Submitted by WildIris on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 17:13.
wood chucks chuck wood...correct???Undecided...get them to move your wood for you laurie...how much wood can a woodckuck chuck, chuckTongue out....Oh that's right....if a woodchuck could chuck wood...Winksorry ...something just keeps coming over me,,,,

Forgot to say that I have the

Submitted by Mainegal on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 07:52.
Forgot to say that I have the trap set but it has not gone near it.....
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What do you have in it?

Submitted by skbeal on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 09:30.

I was trying to think of something you could put in it...I was also recalling that my mother tried to catch a possum using a "Have A Heart Trap" but possums strike me as quite dumb....I got to thinking that maybe you need something that can't be easily be pulled away like a piece of cheese can be....

Don't wood chucks like NUTS? What if you were to use chunky peanut butter? It's sticky enough so that the wood chuck would have to take some time to get the peanut butter away and maybe then you could catch it?

Randy I've seen him/her a few

Submitted by Mainegal on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 07:52.
Randy I've seen him/her a few times. Once was last night and it was eating my flowers. Ran to get the gun but the door squeaked when I opened it and it ran off. Now I have the upstairs bedroom window open and I'm ready for it to come out this am. Now if I can hit it, that will be another story....LOL

I know what you mean.  I have

Submitted by randy cobb on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 16:49.
I know what you mean.  I have a .22 that I used to shoot at a coyote a couple of years back and I didn't get him.  Until I get a chance to sight the gun in, I really don't know how close I came.  It doesn't matter at this point.  I did scare him off for a few days, but saw him in the pasture again scooting across.  Haven't seen him since then though.  I can sure hear them during the summer when I spend some time out in the evening.
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Darn things!

Submitted by Lavender2 on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 20:00.

Oh, I wish you much more luck than I'm having catching that bugger!

A friend of mine said that lettuce and apples works everytime... not for me! I've tried broccoli, carrots, green bean leaves (he eats these off the plants!).  flwrs posted that her hubby is a pro at this and said to try red lettuce and basil... I tried it... but no luck with that either. I watched the dumb... okay, sorta smart!... beast look at the trap and keep right on going, over to my garden... dangit!  I even tried putting the trap right in the garden he enjoys the most...

Anyway, there's some things to try... I hope your beast is not so smart! Good Luck!

I would try lead poisoning,

Submitted by randy cobb on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 22:46.

I would try lead poisoning, but I don't know what the rules are back there.

I found a carrot a couple of days ago that had been worked on by a mole or a gopher and I set a couple of my mole traps into the tunnels, but nothing so far.

I can do the lead poisoning

Submitted by Mainegal on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 12:47.
I can do the lead poisoning but I never see the darn thing... I have my dad's 22 in my spare room waiting for it to show it's face.....