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Grew up on a NE Ohio farm. I’ve eaten many groundhogs. Better to stick with the young ones.

Count the calendar weeks until the Vernal Equinox, just a couple days more than 6 weeks to the first day of spring! What a coincidence...

November 24, 1945 – January 23, 2026 After a life spent traveling Canada’s wilderness in wood-canvas canoes, Hugh Stewart died at the...

Believe it or not, Spam is so popular that the Walmart in midtown Anchorage has it locked up. I've never noticed that, but when I...

I do similar, I wrap in plastic (or vacuum seal), then a couple of layers of wet newsprint, and finally a couple of layers of foil, the...

Woodchucks are fairly tasty because they eat what cows and rabbits eat, but I'd try eating nutria. Probably similar to muskrat, which is...

I had a Gortex coat that I used for years. Recently, before a trip, I knew the coat was old, so I sprayed it with the recommended...

4000' is a good day. It's been a while since I had one like that. I wore a gortex ski jacket on a rainy trip and it got soaked pretty...

I look at what an animal eats to determine if it might be palatable. Groundhogs eat a lot of grass, like a cow.

I vividly remember getting up in the dark at 10,800 feet in an elk. camp in Colorado. It was below zero some nights even in October...

Very interesting. I wonder how the ice coverage will affect the Spring thaw.

Hi Tom, I'm located just up the road from you in Liberty. Glad to have you.

I'll agree that it's better than coon. I like to parboil young groundhogs and they taste a lot like rabbit to me. Best part is that...

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