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Ed Huntress:
Yeah, but at age 11, we didn't have no steenking ballistic gelatine. We
had
clay, and used woodchucks.
What were they used for? Chucking wood?

And *where* would you get used woodchucks, if a woodchuck could chuck
wood?

A used woodchuck is one that has already been terminated, usually by a .22
to .25 caliber bullet traveling at very high velocity. If you don't leave
them hanging around too long they're still good for ballistics experiments.

As for eating them, I do have a recipe that's quite good, from _Gourmet_
magazine. You have to be really careful to get the musk glands out of them,
intact. They're a little tricky that way.

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Ed Huntress