Ted Nugent hunted a groundhog for Groundhog Day.
The rocker shared a photo with his grandson holding a groundhog in his hand on Instagram and wrote in the caption, “Happy Groundhog Day everyday everybody! Handsome young Caeden and Poppy doing garden security in the Connecticut wilderness!”
Nugent has been a supporter of hunting and gun rights since the 2000s. Last year, he appeared on The Chuck Shute Podcast and defended hunting, saying, “As a hunter, fisherman and trapper, I provide the most humane, conscientious, moral, quick death of anything that dies in nature. When you don’t hunt, disease runs in, distemper and rabies.”
“To be against hunting is to literally have no soul. You have no soul. And quite honestly, my son Rocco is a vegan and his new fiancée, they’re vegans. They have dietary considerations. I have no problem with that. I’ve never said, ‘You have to eat meat,’ but some of these nutcases go, ‘You’re cruel for eating deer,'” Nugent continued.
The singer added, “No, you’re cruel for being against a meaningful science-based harvest of the deer, because they’re having fawns now, and if I didn’t kill a bunch of deer on my swamp, there’d be no room for those fawns and they would eat all the prime vegetation and they would end up…”
“I so love this hunting lifestyle. It’s really what’s kept me cocked, locked, and ready to rock the Glock around the clock, Dr. Spock. I mean, I’m healthy and I have a lot of spirit for an old 72-year-old man, and it’s because of my hunting lifestyle,” Nugent also told The Regular Joe Show in 2021.
He went on to say, “The healing powers of nature are unique and universally powerful for all of us who get beyond the pavement and look at the spirit of the wild to cleanse our souls.”
Groundhog Day is celebrated every year on February 2 in the United States and Canada. The tradition, which originated from German folklore, is based on the belief that a groundhog can predict the weather, according to BBC.
