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>is there a way to defeat them
Garlic around the perimeter of your garden, they dont like that
Also live animal traps. Use a piece of veggie that they already bit into or leaving it unbaited works too, being curious they will walk into it
>Can I actually shoot them with a 22 if I have neighbors
I have neighbors too, we all live on 1 acre of land thats kinda long and skinny. I use a suppressor and typically shoot from my bedroom window but once i ran out in my pajamas and tried slapping some rounds down range while on the run. One of my neighbors is a police power couple, an officer and a sheriff and they dont seem to give a damn or maybe they just never noticed.
When i first moved here the groundhog problem was bad; there was an entire family living under my shed. That year i exterminated 8 groundhogs from my bedroom window, including young ones. They were digging under the foundation of my house too so i gassed that tunnel system with chlorine gas.
That stopped the problem for about a year and a half but i suspect the woods population of groundhogs has migrated and re-taken the old shed tunnels