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08-06-2020, 12:04 AM #1
Help me kill a shit-ton of gophers
And no, not Minnesota athletes...
Since my last dog died, the gophers have infested my field, and are encroaching on my yard. I want to keep the little fuckers from getting into my garden. I’ve tried a few poisons , but nothing seems to slow them down. I don’t want repellent, that crap doesn’t work; I want them to die.
What works? And no, I’m not getting a Jack Russell.
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08-06-2020, 12:11 AM #2
Garden hose down the hole and a pellet gun or shotgun always worked for me. Try to find all the holes and block all but two. One for the hose, another for the gun.
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08-06-2020, 12:17 AM #3
It's easy, you just have to think like a gopher
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08-06-2020, 12:49 AM #4
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08-06-2020, 01:26 AM #5click here
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I'd try dry ice in the holes. Displaces the oxygen, they go gently to sleep, long sleep. In theory. Makes Peta upset, so probably works. When driving it home, keep a window cracked.
Or this looks more fun
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08-06-2020, 04:58 AM #6
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08-06-2020, 05:06 AM #7
Same thing happened to me when my dog died. You can’t win, trust me I’ve tried everything, including flooding the entire yard, booby traps, etc
Get the solar stakes that vibrate. Send them to your neighbors yard. They work.
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08-06-2020, 05:28 AM #8
You can’t kill golfers!
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08-06-2020, 05:56 AM #9Banned
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They're tunneling in from the construction site over yonder. You should slap an injunction on them so fast it'll make their head spin.
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08-06-2020, 06:04 AM #10
Google Beruit. Gopher free since Mon.
Haven't we been down this road before? or was that wasps?"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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08-06-2020, 06:29 AM #11
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08-06-2020, 06:46 AM #12
Nice. Use explosives and flammables judiciously. Being overzealous is a recipe for disaster.
What about contacting the CDC and asking them to send you a gopher specific pathogen? They probably have something left over from the Plum Island days.
If that fails I'm sure the Chinese can cook something up."timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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08-06-2020, 07:00 AM #13Registered User
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Hire some boogaloo boys?
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08-06-2020, 07:07 AM #14
Licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. A man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit -- ever. They're like the Viet Cong -- Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote.
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08-06-2020, 07:14 AM #15
Put up some barn owl boxes and get some cats
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08-06-2020, 07:19 AM #16
You can’t kill gapers!
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08-06-2020, 07:23 AM #17Registered User
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08-06-2020, 07:34 AM #18
Rodent smoke bombs. Same idea as the dry ice, removes all the O2 from the burrows. They’re pretty cheap.
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08-06-2020, 07:59 AM #19
Use several small plastic bottles, cram them down the burrows.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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08-06-2020, 08:03 AM #20
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08-06-2020, 08:06 AM #21
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08-06-2020, 08:11 AM #22
For large areas, this is the best way to go.
https://gopherx.com/gopher-x-pest-control-devices
Friend of mine runs landscape maintenance for dozen of large Palm Springs projects and swears by this. Not cheap, but effective. Cheaper version are available, but a hose attached to the exhaust of a leaf blower or lawn mower would probably work. Just don't do it too close to houses as the CO can travel throughout the burrow and possible come up in 90 year old Aunt Matilda's bedroom, which is not necessarily a bad thing if you are in her will.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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08-06-2020, 08:13 AM #23
Mr Gopher meet Mr Bunny...no, he's not plastic explosives.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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08-06-2020, 08:48 AM #24Registered User
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Start with the ones you know. Cover / fill them in, then use a non lethal smoke bomb to find the ones you don't.
22 longs work great. Never tried dry ice but it sounds a lot better then poisons.
You need a multifaceted approach. And they will try to come back. After you kill them all the deterrence phase kicks in.
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08-06-2020, 09:16 AM #25
Has anyone yet told you to hire Carl Spackler? Because that's what you should do.
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