Cub extermination?? (Likely political post)
 

A pesky groundhog has taken up home in my wifes flower bed, and she is not overly pleased about it.

My usual method for varmits involves firearms, but having moved out of the country to a more 'civilized' part of the world, I no longer own firearms (plus I have children and no real use for them anymore).

There was a day we would take a flex pipe from the tractor to the groundhog hole and fumigate it with exhaust. I have heard newer automobiles burn too clean for this these days, so was considering trying it with a cub.

Has anyone successfully put a groundhog to sleep with the exhaust from a cub?

What model cub was used? (ya, I know it probably doesnt matter but if there is a particular model with overwhelming support that works better than some other model, it might be an excuse to buy another cub? :D) Ok, my wife prolly isnt 'that' naive...

Are there other methods recommended? (the neighbors trapped one, with a fair bit of time and effort and let it loose somewhere else... hmmm... I wonder if that is where mine came from!) I live in a wooded area with no visible neighbors in sight, so its not like houses are on top of each other but still not inclined to discharge firearms.

I'd use a .22 rifle with .22 CB long ammo, it's not much louder than a pellet gun.

Cabelas sells a high power air rifle at .22cal with 1100fps or a .177 with 1500fps. These are good Varmint rifles for more urban setting, both are break open and give neighbours the felling that it's only a pellet gun. I have the .22, it's just below speed of sound of 1126fps and doesn't give that sonic book crack like the .177.

Kills tree rats and bunnies quite nicely

If it is a 'chuck, the little buggers are quite curious.
A live trap set by the burrow will attract their attention and they will checkout an unbaited trap.
I got 17 last year in one burrow with an unbaited live trap on the edge of one of my soybean fields bordering a city subdivision where I did not want to get someones pet with a lethal conibear trap.:beerchug:
just don't catch a skunk!!!!!:banned:

Dryer vent hose stuck down the hole, some small crushed stone around the pipe the help seal it in the hole. Other end slipped over the tail pipe of my 2015 Toyota Tacoma. Let it idle for 30 mins. Problem solved.

Hava Heart Live trap and a barrel of water. Ger Glug.... No sound or air pollution. Just do it inside a structure/gargage/shed where no neighbor can film it and get you on anything. Then set it's carcass free somewhere else. :Whistle:

Even modern vehicle exhaust is deadly in a closed spaced.

Mothballs seem to work too 2,3 and crush 1up
my trash being ripped open was raccoon & 4 cubs living in the storm drain opening
And mothballs helped

Electric fence keeps most things out.

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