[petemi]

I'm sorry, but I disagree with .22 rimfires on woodchucks. Yeah, you'll kill them, but a lot of them will dive in their hole and slowly die there. Please, use a real cartridge, all of the center-fire .22s and anything you like larger. Kill them where they stand, don't just mortally wound them. Be responsible. A good hunter doesn't inflict suffering on an animal.

A few years ago, I shot a chuck with a Marlin .22 WMR. The farmer, landowner I was with told me the shot was 225 - 250 yards. The critter was sitting on top of a pasture rock pile. I rested on the hood of the truck and let it fly. OH Yeah, I got him, but he left an inch and a half wide blood trail going down his hole. That was a .22 magnum. I still wonder if I just blew a front leg off, maiming the critter. I guess what I'm trying to say, is what I say all along, Hunt any game with a bullet designed to take that game. I don't understand the fixation some folks have to take the largest game with the smallest bullet. When I shoot anything, I want it knocked off its pins, dead, there.