They REALLY STINK once dead.>>> I see. They stink while still breathing. I think pellet. I might pellet some groundhogs this summer. i’m in a very close suburb. and i might pellet the raccoons. Black trash bag. pick up on tuesday and friday. I have traps but i really don’t want to deal with an enraged coon. The bobcat is a very interesting situation, however. The raccoons climb the fence where there is a tree so when i cull the trees the coons might not show up.
Get your fly rod and folding chair, a cooler of beers, and set up about 25 yards away from the groundhog mound-hole. Make a slip-knot at the end of the fly rod line, the same diameter as the hole. When the groundhog pops it's head up, set the line and hang on tight. It takes a good hour to tire the thing out. What you do with it then is up to you.
It takes about another hour for the next one to pop up.