I need to eliminate some Gopher's that have been digging up my strip. Any advice from some that have had them before? Thanks!

Aviatorpa11 wrote:I need to eliminate some Gopher's that have been digging up my strip. Any advice from some that have had them before? Thanks!

I had 5 acres near Woodland Washington once with more gophers than I've ever seen anywhere. I had the best luck sticking the barrel of a 12 gauge with a 3" duck load down the hole and firing a round. Hit every hole.

Now, lest I get in trouble here, DON'T LET THE BARREL GET PLUGGED WITH DIRT! If you do, you got a problem mister. Most shotgun barrels will peel back in about 4 curly-ques and could hit you as they violently dislodge the plug. Plus, you'll ruin a perfectly good shotgun barrel.

I'm not sure what it is that happens underground, but I used a couple of boxes of shells when I started, then every time a new hole would show up, I'd dig out the opening and let fly with a round. After ridding the property of the initial infestation, I never used more than a couple rounds a year there after.

I just looked on the internet for a picture of a "banana peeled" barrel but found that apparently Mythbusters has tried to duplicate this unsuccessfully Well, I think that bunch is pretty smoked up most of the time anyway, but I've PERSONALLY seen this happen while duck hunting with a friend. The barrel was plugged with delta mud because he had a bad leg and had steadied himself a couple times with his shotgun as we walked in the dark to the blind. When he fired the first round, the barrel of his 1970's vintage Remington 870 shotgun peeled back in four more or less equal curls all the way back to the magazine attachment ring. I've seen it. Take whatever precautions you deem appropriate.

I saw a gizmo called a rodenator or something like that in use. They had the tanks on a handcart and I think is on the same principle as the 12ga. Fun times..... Not a good picture, but at http://www.idahoaviation.com under the Vaughn album, you can see everyone trying to get their hands on it to get their turn.

While I'm a fan of gut piles and body counts and usually either trap or shoot the pesky critters, there was an interesting post from a fellow BCP a while back. He said to use equal parts ammonia and chlorine bleach. CAUTION: resulting gas will kill you!!!!! Mix outside and not with your head over the bucket. Pour some down each hole. The gas is heavier than air and will flood the tunnel. Good luck and be careful.

Just get bigger tires and you wont' feel the dirt piles

~CRAZED

crazedpilot wrote:Just get bigger tires and you wont' feel the dirt piles

~CRAZED

My feeling exactly 30" tires and u won't feel a thing. rolled over pivot tracks 12 " deep on a regular basis and never felt it videos on the rodenator are great

Rodenator seems great, but a little pricey. Right now, as far as I figure, I only have one or two at the most. I dont think I could justify the cost of it yet. I think I will try the exhaust from my truck first and see what happens, and then go from there.

Go to a farm store and buy some poison grain for varmints and put it in the hole it worked for me. A .223 also works if u are out of town

Right now, as far as I figure, I only have one or two at the most.

You have two gofers and you consider that a problem?!!!

Make sure you get them before they get a network of tunnels dug. Once the tunnels are in all their friends will move in. They really like ready dug tunnels. My cousin has a gopher colony in one of his fields that he's been fighting for fourty years.

I prefer to trap em so I am sure I gotem. Dig just outside the flat side of the mound to find the main tunnel that the side tunnel to the mound connects to. Inlarge the main tunnel going both ways so you can place a trap all the way into the tunnel each way (two traps). Cover that up with a piece of plywood with a screw in it that the traps are attached to with a couple feet of safety wire. Cover the edges of the plywood with dirt so no light can get into the tunnel. I check my traps twice a day after they are set.

One trap this summer had just a gopher foot in it. That was almost as satisfying as catching the whole gopher. Every time I catch one now I count his feet to see if he is "Old Three Foot".

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When we were kids in MN there was a bounty on gophers. I think it was .50 cents a tail. Kept us in beer $$$. Till we found a woven rug when disassembled and cut to length looked like tails. We were in tall cotton for a while till they caught us Crime doesn't pay they say That was my only dealings in organized crime .....till I got in the Air Taxi business

Have you considered a squirrel relocation device?

Nosedragger wrote:Have you considered a squirrel relocation device?

Does this work with nobomba supporters ?

Drink a couple of six packs while watching the movie Caddyshack. After that, you will have a vision, and the proper course of action will become obvious to you.

This is kind of weird but... I have heard of farmers around here putting pieces of chewed bubble gum in prairie dog holes. Apparently the prairie dogs like the smell, try to eat it, choke and die... I'm not really sure how well it works, but its an idea!

For the gohers we just buy gallon jugs of cleaning amonia, dig up the mounds, and pour some in each hole and then cover the hole with a piece of plywood. This keeps the amonia trapped in the hole. I would use poison gopher pellets but I'm afraid our pet cats might ingest some of the poison should they go after the gophers.
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use this works on mice packrats and gophers every time just put on wire an put in hole and cover over, easier than a trap

All you have to do is pay my way down and I'll be glad to bomb your Rodents with my "RODENATOR"

If not, just buy one and you'll have HOURS on end of pure FUN



Its been on here before too... good info at :

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