mijo,
Congratulations to you and your grandson, and that Rem #4!   

Living in NH I still had the luxury of having access to some nice former dairy pastures for hunting chucks or ' Whistle Pigs ' as the locals often called them. But as Redsetter notes the geopolitical face of these areas is changing -- fast. A lot of nice rifles and small caliber wildcats were developed around this animal. I alway heard upstate NY was woodchuck central and prime country for lots of famous single shot gurus 

I used to hunt two long grassy pastures around Boscawan, NH and one ran parallel to the highway. So one day I noticed a car pull off the road and a woman was taking pictures of me ? Half hour later a state trooper catches me walking back to my truck and tells me some tourists caught up with him at a rest stop saying there was a guy with a rifle next to the road and they were sure I was going to shoot at cars. 

The trooper knew well what I was doing and kind of chuckled but said he had to check it out and make sure I wasn't a nut case. They were tourists going up to the White Mtns but this was an indication of how things were changing plus all the realty signs posted on old closed dairy farms. The government forced the dairy farmers off their land due to the surplus milk programs. Very soon the deep pockets from NYC, CT, MA, NJ and elsewhere couldn't help but buy the land and open B&B's kind a like the old show ' Green Acres '. NH, VT and Maine are all dying from the same  disease. 

I dressed and gave my chucks to my neighborhood vet who fed them to his impounded dogs. I loved laying in those fields in the Summer when the Bobolinks showed up.

Rick