Arrowed a varmint

[Antlerking]

I have been chasing these things around the house with the gamo shadow cat lately, but I changed up and grabbed the bow. I shot this 1 today at 36 yards, he was just standing on top of his mound, I could not resist

[carpsniperg2]

 

[lewy]

Nice

[Skyvalhunter]

How good did he taste?

[lewy]

Good shot placement too........

[bowtech721]

How good did he taste?

are you for real? Do people seriously eat those things?

[carpsniperg2]

people eat them coons skunks etc  not for me

[robb92]

Good shot!!!

[littlemac]

Great shot, have you whacked any with the gamo?

[Ranger91298]

Great shot... doubt he even felt it...

[fishermanjoe]

dumb question, but, what the hell is that.   I think i have been seeing them around ellensburg lately

[woodywsu]

"rock chuck" or yellow bellied marmot

[littlemac]

dumb question, but, what the hell is that.   I think i have been seeing them around ellensburg lately

We were coming out of E'burg along the river on the old road and those  (similar) things were all over the place on the road, licking the salt from the previous day that the road crew threw down I think.

Man there were a lot of them and then they ran back to their hidey holes as we drove by.

I figured marmot, but not sure.  they had black tails and black on their face.

[Drifterat]

Nice shot. But no pass through at 36 yards? Did it bury in the dirt or is that one tough varmit?

[lewy]

tough to get a pass through on small animals sometimes, they seem to go with the arrow

[Drifterat]

tough to get a pass through on small animals sometimes, they seem to go with the arrow

Good point, didn't think of that.

[elkmaster101]

tell ya what , taste like giant rabbit,
 
they are strictly vegetarians,
 debone it through the meat in a pressure cooker, this will help relax the meat,
you can do the same in an oven at 250 for 2 hours.
then pull it out, mix up some of your tasty BBQ sauce and pop it in the bar-bi placed on a sheet of foil 2 layers and keep rolling it over if you have a smoker even better let cook until it browns up good,
pull the meat apart and place on burger buns,
 season it as you will to your choice,
sliver of onion or two,
 and walla
you've got some of the best tasting chuck around.

con grats on the shot,
as a kid growing up i spent many an hour sneaking there critters
usually popped them in the head though.
 
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[spike]

Here's a dumb question. Aren't those things protected? I was told you are not allowed to shoot them.We saw a bunch of those around Banks Lake last summer.

[Goldeneye]

Reg's say legal for the yellow bellied Marmot.  Illegal to harvest Olympic and Hoary Marmot.


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