I know I'm late to the party but if you can, get your hands on some strychnine, and a five gallon pail of grain. Mix the strychnine in with the grain and you're guaranteed to kill your gophers. Don't screw around with that nancy crap you get at Home Depot. If you know someone who lives on an acreage or farm, get them to get some for you. One bottle would do more than enough grain for you. Just be careful that any other animals you want to live don't get a hold of the dead gophers...they'll bite the big one too. Apparently a guy had a couple horses keel over dead after two mouthfuls of the stuff.
Another possibility is foot traps. Just set them in the hole and when they try to come out, bang! Then you have to kill them...I really didn't enjoy that very much, the stepping on the heads of gophers and such. It's pretty gnarly.
A final option is ammonia gas if you can find it...again, go to an ag place and rent it for a day.
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Originally Posted by 4X4
This is such a good excuse to buy a really nice pellet rifle.
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Bah, those things are friggin' useless. You pump and pump and pump, then just stun them, if you even hit them at all. If you're gonna get a rifle, go for a little .22. They're not very loud, and look pretty much the same as a pellet gun, so you could get away with it if you were feeling brave.