Gophers!

[ken0042]

Yeah, I don't think if I do end up catching any live that I will be doing any relocating. I learned that hard lesson years ago when I had a place with mice coming in.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Azure

lol at relocating them.

The little buggers breed when they're dead.

Just bash his head in with a sledge hammer. Geez

Its nothing I would do myself. Like I said, I used to step on their heads once I caught them in leg traps. But I do realize that some people might have a hard time bashing a gophers brains in. Not everyone is a hillbilly like you and I Azure.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Azure

Not if buy a really, really high-powered one.

My buddy's gun is just some $150 one from Crappy Tire. The only pumping it needs is when you crank the barrel down to load it. You don't need some super duper gun, this thing kills gophers just fine.
Nice toy to bring camping and shoot beer cans with. Or your buddy when he's bending over the cooler to grab a beer.

[GreenLantern]

Would mothballs down the hole work to drive them out? I know it works on Squirrells. We used to have a problem with them in our attic one summer.

[ken0042]

^^ That might also be worth a try.

Where would you even go to buy mothballs? Other than 1953. I'm just thinking that I don't recall ever seeing them anywhere.

[Boblobla]

I am going to piggy back on your thread.

Is there anything I can do from keeping the neighborhood cats from using my garden as a litter box? I am looking that will keep them away, not kill them...

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

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. .

Just leave poison out of it. When I was a kid, a dog of mine was poisoned by strychnine by a neighbour trying to kill gophers. It's not a pretty sight. It's a random killer and it flows through the food chain.

I've used this kind of trap to kill Richardson ground squirrels. There's variations but basically open on two sides and placed over the hole so there is no other exit except through the trap. For a single gopher in an urban setting, you probably wouldn't need anything else.


Cowperson

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by ken0042

^^ That might also be worth a try.

Where would you even go to buy mothballs? Other than 1953. I'm just thinking that I don't recall ever seeing them anywhere.

I have never heard of this working. They would probably just remove the moth balls, bury them, or just abonden that hole and dig another one right beside it. You don't wan't any additional holes do you?

[troutman]

We snared an albino gopher in the 1970s. Brought him to the zoo, and he was put on display.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Just leave poison out of it. When I was a kid, a dog of mine was poisoned by strychnine by a neighbour trying to kill gophers. It's not a pretty sight. It's a random killer and it flows through the food chain.

I've used this kind of trap to kill Richardson ground squirrels. There's variations but basically open on two sides and placed over the hole so there is no other exit except through the trap. For a single gopher in an urban setting, you probably wouldn't need anything else.


Cowperson

Strychnine is restricted anyways, if somebody has some, they are hoarding it.

That trap looks like a good solution. It is basically a big mouse trap. Saves you from having to savagely kill them after you catch them.

[wooohooo]

Originally Posted by ken0042

^^ That might also be worth a try.

Where would you even go to buy mothballs? Other than 1953. I'm just thinking that I don't recall ever seeing them anywhere.

I went to the Dollarama in Beddington about a month ago and they had them... lots of them.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by troutman

We snared an albino gopher in the 1970s. Brought him to the zoo, and he was put on display.

Interesting. They have one at the Innisfail Zoo (or whatever you call that place).

[burning_acid1]

Gopher trap

[Azure]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

Its nothing I would do myself. Like I said, I used to step on their heads once I caught them in leg traps. But I do realize that some people might have a hard time bashing a gophers brains in. Not everyone is a hillbilly like you and I Azure.

haha.

I actually just prefer to shoot them. Even from up close. quick and painless. unless of course you shoot them in the ass and they crawl down their hole.

I'm getting a .223 soon. which might not help me any if this rain continues. but it will be hell on our land once it gets nice.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by troutman

We snared an albino gopher in the 1970s. Brought him to the zoo, and he was put on display.

We had one on our land too a while ago. Everytime I went to shoot gophers I left him alone.

I think someone shot him when I wasn't around.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Azure

I think someone shot him when I wasn't around.

Albino gophers probably have a hard time hiding from hawks and coyotes.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Albino gophers probably have a hard time hiding from hawks and coyotes.

Yeah, that is true too.

I don't know which is the bigger problem around here right now. Coyotes or gophers.

Geez.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Azure

haha.

I actually just prefer to shoot them. Even from up close. quick and painless. unless of course you shoot them in the ass and they crawl down their hole.

I'm getting a .223 soon. which might not help me any if this rain continues. but it will be hell on our land once it gets nice.

Shooting gophers is the greatest past time in the history of the world.

[Hevishot]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

Shooting gophers is the greatest past time in the history of the world.

That and shooting coyotes

[Matata]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

I am going to piggy back on your thread.

Is there anything I can do from keeping the neighborhood cats from using my garden as a litter box? I am looking that will keep them away, not kill them...

My nana got the cats out of her garden by peeing in a bottle and using that to mark the boundaries. Sounds strange to us, but cats understand that sort of thing better than a fence.