03-07-2004, 10:00 PM
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| Senior Member  | Whistle pig WhistlePig, is a nickname for a ground squirrel in Southern Idaho. It’s official name is Townsend Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus townsendii. These ground squirrels communicate by emitting a faint, high-pitched whistle while partially underground … hence the name WhistlePig WhistlePig GunBarrel Co. A WhistlePig's habitat is primarily arid desert burrowing in grassland hills and sagebrush. Each adult digs two burrows—a small one in the feeding area, evidently used as an escape hatch if predators approach, and a much bigger home burrow that is at least 50 feet (15 m) long and up to 6 feet (2 m) deep. During the spring-time of the year when the young are abroad and half-grown, they tend to be active, scurrying about between their auxiliary burrows and feeding on green plants. The adults are also known to be carnivorous, eating their young and road kills. One litter is produced per year, with 6 to 10 pups per litter. To a rancher with livestock or horses, the borrows can cause serious injury. Sportsmen have been encouraged to eradicate them. I am one who helps in the eradication. Don't think this is an easy task these suckers are fast. |
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03-08-2004, 08:52 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Occupied Territories of New York (Buffalo)
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Trader Rating: (0) | AROUND HERE WE CALL A WHISTLE PIG A WOOD CHUCK, OR GROUND HOG.
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03-08-2004, 01:51 PM
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Trader Rating: (0) | otherwise know as targets, coyote food, crow bait, and turkey buzerd chow. the farmers call them names i can't repeat here.
__________________ "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" -Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis "If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective." - Ted Nugent "Self-defense is Nature's eldest law." -John Dryden |
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08-20-2008, 05:13 PM
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| spiritual counselor    Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca
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Trader Rating: (0) | what we call a whistle pig here in colorado are also called rockchucks. they mostly live above treeline (around 10,000 feet and up) and are fat,slow moving animals that look kind of like a porcupine but with hair instead of quills.
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08-20-2008, 05:15 PM
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| spiritual counselor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca
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Trader Rating: (0) | wikipedia Marmots are generally large ground squirrels. Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas such as the Alps, Carpathians, Tatra, and Pyrenees in Europe, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada in the United States, and Northern Canada. However, the groundhog is also properly called a marmot, while the similarly-sized but more social prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys. Marmots typically live in burrows, and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social, and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed. 
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08-20-2008, 05:18 PM
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| spiritual counselor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca
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Trader Rating: (0) | i was wondering why someone would want to shoot a marmot. they are harmless. if these messed up pasture instead of living way the heck up in the mountains it would be different!
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08-21-2008, 09:56 PM
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| Senior Member  | they live all sorts of places like deer they live up by me where its pretty cold and they live down in arkansaw where its realy hot and those things if you drive up the mountian a little ways then park it and walk the rest of the way they will eat the tubes off the bottom of your car rabbits will do this sometimes to
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08-21-2008, 10:21 PM
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we call them chucks in ohio, groundhog is common to. but these are not fast lol, they are prolly the easiest kill you can get.....if they dont see you first that is
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08-24-2008, 10:52 PM
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