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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Fuzzy on March 07, 2013, 11:13:42 PM

Title: Rockchuck season
Post by: Fuzzy on March 07, 2013, 11:13:42 PM: The season is apon us! Took 3 today with my supressed savage mkII TR, shooting rem. Subsonics. First two about 25yds, third 50yds. No pics this time i was in a hurry. I will update as the season continues..... :tup:
Title: Re: Rockchuck season
Post by: madcow41 on March 08, 2013, 09:05:42 AM: What kind of terrain do they like?
Title: Re: Rockchuck season
Post by: Fuzzy on March 08, 2013, 09:14:01 AM: Rocks........ :chuckle:

I find them mostly in rock slides or near orchards with rock outcrops in the hillside. Im near wenatchee so its mostly sagebrush and dry.
Title: Re: Rockchuck season
Post by: eastsidemallard74 on March 08, 2013, 12:23:48 PM: There is a actual season for them. Do you sell the pelts or just use for Yote food?Im newer to Moses and they are in abundance around here.One of the guys i work with feeds em.
Title: Re: Rockchuck season
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on March 08, 2013, 12:38:02 PM: Quote from: eastsidemallard74 on March 08, 2013, 12:23:48 PM
There is a actual season for them.

Wrong... There was a season on them years ago, but none now. Yellow Bellied Marmots, commonly known as Rockchucks are not protected or classed as Game Animals. You can shoot them year-round, you just don't see them year-round.
Title: Re: Rockchuck season
Post by: Fuzzy on March 08, 2013, 04:34:04 PM: :yeah:

I mostly just help the farmers out, they can do pretty good damage on fruit trees. I have heard some people keeping the carcase and using them for bait.
Title: Re: Rockchuck season
Post by: eastsidemallard74 on March 11, 2013, 10:54:32 AM: yeah we seen them pop up around our building about 2 weeks ago, but dissappeared before that for several months. They are all over the place though