It has begun

[skeets]

To all units:
04/11/2026
This morning at approximately 0800 a member of a radical group calling them selves Marmota monax has been sighted inside our legal border.
It is unknown at this time, how much damage has been to our infrastructure .
All units are cleared for the use of deadly force using any and all resources available until farther notice.
Sniper nests are here by activated.
All stations will report to command on any movement, contact or damage.

 

[John T]

Put a pot on the stove with some carrots and Ongiouns....

 

[Gaspasser]

To all units:
04/11/2026
This morning at approximately 0800 a member of a radical group calling them selves Marmota monax has been sighted inside our legal border.
It is unknown at this time, how much damage has been to our infrastructure .
All units are cleared for the use of deadly force using any and all resources available until farther notice.
Sniper nests are here by activated.
All stations will report to command on any movement, contact or damage.

My issue is with Erithizon dorsatum. The little #%^(^$+'s chew up my hemlocks, killing them as well as crap in my barn. I am told they also chew on tractor tires. They nest in an abandoned house next door which is filled with quills and feces. Wife thinks they are cute and refuses to let me "remedy" the situation. Fortunately, we are not yet living at that woodlot site so when she is not there, there may be an accidental episode of "acute copper-jacketed lead poisoning" occurring.

 

[skeets]

Ya do what ya gota go

 

[The Evil Twin]

Fur missile battery on active alert.

 

[Gaspasser]

We have a fur missile as well but quill extraction in the middle of the night is not my idea of excitement. LOL.

 

[JimDeL]

My issue is with Erithizon dorsatum. The little #%^(^$+'s chew up my hemlocks, killing them as well as crap in my barn. I am told they also chew on tractor tires.

They also seem to like rubber brake lines and hydraulic lines. Copper jacked pills work well to remedy the situation. Lead slug .22's also work, and are generally quieter than their big brothers.

 

[mikester]

 

[Sidekick]

I made a sign for my garden after they learned to climb the 6ft high woodpile and jump down into my garden.

A clip of 22 yellow jacket hollow points solved the problem one at a time.

 

[RCW]

I used to get my first woodchuck (ground hog south of us) in the third week of March.

Bagged a lot of them by May 15, when the grass was tall enough to hide them.

 

[NCL4701]

.22 bolt action with silencer and night scope. Sounds like a dry fire, but it ain’t. If you have coyotes like we do, they’ll carry it off to thick brush for the dirty work of cleanup. No one will ever know unless you tell them.

 

[mikester]

I'm always amazed at how they climb trees...and stand on top of fence posts!

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

May they be far enough away that the flight time gives you chance to see and hear impact.

 

[Sidekick]

I'm always amazed at how they climb trees...and stand on top of fence posts!

Didn't believe they could climb until I found one in the garden. Chased him around with a pitch fork and he did a dash to the fence. Up and over before I could get to it. It was a pro at getting in and out until a hollow point got it when the crossing the yard. It knew my nap time and would sneak in, then leave before I woke up for the afternoon check. Had another dig a tunnel from the woods to inside my garden almost 50 ft long that came up under the shed. A gallon of industrial chlorine in the hole before filling it fixed that.