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Son's first Whistle Pig!
« on: March 19, 2012, 06:56:44 PM »
My Son and I  went out after school with a few of his buds and he got his first whistle pig with his new .22!  :IBCOOL:  We were helping out a campground who are over run with these things.  Got some great photos!
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 07:19:18 PM »
Cool!  Good looking bunch of vermin eradicators.  The spring weather is bringing them out.
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2012, 07:32:18 PM »
Very nice!  I shot my first 2 of the year today, need to get my boy out there for his first.  Well done Yelp!
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2012, 07:46:29 PM »
sWEET...Can not beat that ... :tup:

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2012, 08:29:25 PM »
My boy shot a couple sat too! Great job.  :tup:

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2012, 08:34:44 PM »
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2012, 08:39:52 PM »
How do they taste.
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2012, 08:41:34 PM »
 :yeah:

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2012, 08:43:49 PM »
Don't know. We skin em and use as bait in the traps.  Not hungry enough to eat em!,
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2012, 09:41:13 PM »
Ah..."The Three Mamot-teers"



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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2012, 10:09:13 PM »
nice!! they are a blast to go after! just relaxing and waiting...

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2012, 10:35:02 AM »
Yelp,  when did a Rock Ckuck become a whistle pig? I have never heard that term before and I was shooting Rock Ckucks clear back in the 70's.   Nice shootin boyz...........
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2012, 10:41:13 AM »
that is awesome, can anyone shoot them buggers, i have always wanted to set up a couple hundred yards out and crack some with my 30-06, what awesome practice that would be, where can one go over there to shoot them, us wetsiders dont have any of them whistle pigs, though up on white pass along big rock slides there is some kinda of big ass fat pudgy mouse lookn things that look like they would be a blast to shoot with a .22 but i doubt it would be legal, i would like to find out but have no clue as to what the name is of them... :dunno:
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2012, 10:46:14 AM »
How do they taste.

Not good.  Ate one about 7 years ago doing survival training.  It really was the foulest meat I have ever eaten.  I have spoken to people that say the young ones are edible if you "cook them right" (not exactly sure what that means), but I can tell you without question that a big male roasted on a spit is absolutely "survival only" fare... :chuckle:
Most people only need to start gutting one and get a good whiff to know what I am talking about...
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2012, 10:47:08 AM »
Yelp,  when did a Rock Ckuck become a whistle pig? I have never heard that term before

That's what I have always heard them called
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2012, 11:23:07 AM »
I would like to point out that it is mostly the Yellow bellied marmot that is shot due to damage issues. the "Silver" Hoary marmot lives mostly at the upper edges of the tree line. They aren't endangered but i don't know if you can hunt them or not. there is a Marmot on the OLY pen that looks similar to the Hoary marmot but is enangered.  :twocents:
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2012, 11:45:17 AM »
Both the Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata) and the Olympic Marmot (Marmota olympus) are protected in Washington. The Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota flaviventris) is considered unclassified wildlife and may be hunted year-round with a small game or big game license.

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2012, 12:04:32 PM »
I thought that was the case but couldn't find the source to document that. Do you know where it is stated?
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2012, 01:24:04 PM »
I thought that was the case but couldn't find the source to document that. Do you know where it is stated?

Page 71 of the Big Game hunting pamphlet lists the "Protected Species".  Page 62, the Small Game Seasons page, lists the classified species.  Yellow Bellied Marmots, also called Rockchucks or Whistle Pigs, are not classified.  HTH...
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2012, 01:40:31 PM »
Fun! Great job!!

first time Ive heard those called a whistle pig too, here is a real whistle pig.


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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2012, 01:45:38 PM »
Fun! Great job!!

first time Ive heard those called a whistle pig too, here is a real whistle pig.




That looks like a Sage Rat to me.  :dunno:

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2012, 01:58:35 PM »
In Idaho they call them whistle pigs  :dunno:

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2012, 04:06:10 PM »
Who cares what they are called where can I go arond walla walla to shoot either of them little varmints

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2012, 04:35:03 PM »
COOL!

Thats also what we call sage rats....whistlers for the Hoary and groundhow for the yellow belly

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2012, 04:48:00 PM »
Who cares what they are called where can I go arond walla walla to shoot either of them little varmints

It's been a few years, but I used to shoot them over on the rocky side of Buttercup just behind Waitsburg.  Gotta get permission from the landowner though.  When I did it she would only allow you to shoot a .22
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2012, 06:41:10 PM »
Fun! Great job!!

first time Ive heard those called a whistle pig too, here is a real whistle pig.



I'd call those little things a "twitter pig".  That's the sound they make--a soft twitter.  Yellow Bellied Marmots give a loud warning whistle.  I've whistled and had them answer me.  They're bigger, too, like the ones the boys got.
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2012, 03:14:37 AM »
     I've whistled and had them answer me. 









When I was a kid we used to blow into an empty .22lr shell and they would answer back.
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2012, 12:06:48 PM »
Where would one go to shoot some i got a mess of kids that would have a blast we live in eastern wa thanks

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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2012, 06:08:45 AM »
Where would one go to shoot some i got a mess of kids that would have a blast we live in eastern wa thanks












Just south of Creston on highway 2 is 12,500 acres of DNR land called Swanson Lake. In the center of all that sage is a bunch of shale rock out crops with busted up shale at the base. The chucks like to hang out near the little cliffs. They can be hard to see because thet are the same color as the rocks. Look for movement.  I have shot some chucks out there as late as the mid 90's. There is dirt 4x4 roads to get around out there. Nothing that you would even get into 4 wheel drive for.
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2012, 06:45:26 AM »
i need to take my kid out to shoot some,  need a sunny day.   :IBCOOL:
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Re: Son's first Whistle Pig!
« Reply #30 on: March 23, 2012, 08:38:46 AM »
In Idaho they call them whistle pigs  :dunno:
:yeah: when I used too live near Boise the locals all called sage rats whistle pigs.
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