At home on the farm we considered them vermin as they ate our freshly sprouted soybeans. We killed them with anything we could and a couple got terminated with a shovel. Dad wouldn't let me have a .22 and the 410 usually wasn't handy, hence the shovel.
Anyway, my wife is from KY and her mother fried up some young woodchucks, or ground hogs, whistlepigs, as they call them. The first few bites I had to kind of chew fast and swallow, but after that they were quite tasty. Not strong tasting. My BIL cleans the older ones real good, and as Leon said, remove the glands, and bakes them. I have had them and they are good too. Never did try the livers though.
