On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 8:24:25 PM UTC-4, MisterDiddyWahDiddy wrote:
> On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 10:41:29 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 9:59:49 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> > > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 8:20:57 AM UTC-4, Boron Elgar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I had to chuck 8-10 really big tomatoes yesterday because of a chomp
> > > > > on the bottom or the side facing away. Drives me mad.
> > > >
> > > > One year I had a woodchuck that would come around and bite a
> > > > bunch of green tomatoes. I was as if he bit the first one,
> > > > said "Yuck, I'll try another one." Lather, rinse, repeat.
> > >
> > > Here's the solution to a woodchuck in the garden problem. (if they
> > > burrow underneath a fence.)
> > > Picture of me, 1979 with a 30-30. It was a one-shot kill from about 80
> > > yards. It was destroying my inlaws garden.
> > > http://i62.tinypic.com/32zj0ud.jpg
> > >
> > > This was my last ever kill. To sad for me ever since.
> >
> > I don't think that would work here; we're a little too urbanized.
> > There's a trailer park (quite a nice one) behind our property; I think
> > they wouldn't like lead coming through their walls if he skipped
> > one off the ground.
> >
> > My husband is sudden death with a BB gun on squirrels, though.
> >
> They won't let you BB gun the squirrels around here. : (

If they knew, "They" probably wouldn't allow it here, either.
But you get a lot of leeway on a 2-acre lot with plenty of
mature trees.

Cindy Hamilton