Shooting at Gophers is a part time Summer job around the farm. Those nasty complex diggin sons of guns make holes the size of a 10 inch softball at random ALL over 5 acres of must be mowed grass.
Bouncing up and down in these holes on a Saturday afternoon is NOT fun. Not to mention they eat as much as they can from our vegetable garden. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
I don't use the Scrappers to skin and trim them,they're just for content.
I ride the John Deere with that pistol in a quick draw holster.
Many times the mower scares a big one up and as he races across the grass to the next entry to his underground NORAD I have stopped them cold. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Success! It feels good. Out comes the black garbage bag,drop one... keep mowing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
I love cutting the grass! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Peace.
Hope this helps: The best trick I found when I was younger for killing off gophers is to buy some bubble yum brand bubble gum (if you can find it now) chew it up to the point where the flavor is gone (this is key). Then place the well chewed bubble yum inside the entrance of each hole after which you backfill the holes so that when the gopher has to reopen a hole to get fresh air and has to chew the gum up that is in the way. This then plugs up his guts and he swells up to die a well deserved painful death. It may work with other bubble gums, but they should have a similar softness to the bubble yum. It sounds silly, but it works and is much safer than shooting or gassing them, but maybe not as much fun. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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