We have very few in Pennsylvania anymore. Many want to blame coyotes but they never seem to have anything to back it up. I think it’s fewer farms only because I grew up on a farm and we had three neighboring farms. Now there are no cows and no wood chucks. It’s like that all over our area. I don’t know, I could be all wet… But when I was growing up, I would hunt woodchucks just about every day and many days twice. I shot a lot of chucks and it always seemed like every one I shot would be replaced by two. Those were the days…
you are not all wet. i see very few in western pa. i own property that is pock marked with holes. most are falling in. i used to kill dozens a year. i thought maybe i was killing them all off but even in areas that i don't hunt, i don't see hardly any. same with road killed ones. i am not sure what is causing it but it coincided with the rapid rise in coyotes around here. i can see that being the case, a hog would be an easy catch for a coyote.
