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cj7

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Many of us have these things in our fields...


I was just out mowing this evening when I thought......


If I just fill in the hole will the critter be gone?

I suppose not.. I'll have to have the guys that hunt them at my neighbors come and shoot them...

Any other ideas out there?
 
Yeah I have been doing that for the last eight years why change now I suppose...LOL

would be nice to mow the steep part with out having to drop in those suckers though....!
 
cj7 said:
Ok

Many of us have these things in our fields...


I was just out mowing this evening when I thought......


If I just fill in the hole will the critter be gone?

I suppose not.. I'll have to have the guys that hunt them at my neighbors come and shoot them...

Any other ideas out there?
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Shoot the owner of the hole (or any other groudhog) and throw it back in the hole. Fill it in after (couple days) it gets good and rank....problem gone!
 
Invite us over to do some plinking. :thumb:

Those holes can be dangerous. When baling hay, more than once has someone gotten hurt stepping in one.

We almost lost a wagon and its load when the front tire went in one.
 
bczoom said:
Those holes can be dangerous. When baling hay, more than once has someone gotten hurt stepping in one.
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We've had cattle with broken legs because of them.

Jim
 
When I was in high school, my .243 and me got $1 a head from numerous farmers just for the two reasons above!!
 
Well you could do what Dad did here. (Gopher holes - smaller, but still a nuisance). He put in poison grain and then a cinder block everywhere that gophers disrupted his garden. I'm still finding the blocks with my rotary mower.

This place must be the gopher capital of the world. Luther Burbank (plant geneticist) started here, then gave up and moved to Santa Rosa after a few years due to too much gopher damage. He gave his abandoned parcel to the cemetary district....
 
California said:
Well you could do what Dad did here. (Gopher holes - smaller, but still a nuisance). He put in poison grain and then a cinder block everywhere that gophers disrupted his garden. I'm still finding the blocks with my rotary mower.
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For gophers, I decided to fight back several years ago as they were invading my lawn area. I ended up using road flares. Light it, stuff it down the hole, let burn and the sulfur smell (poison) seemed to do the trick of getting rid of the critters. I don't know if it would work to drive the ground hogs to the surface where you could finish them off, or if the sulfur might do the job on its own. Kinda fun, you can combine fire and guns together. Throw in a couple of buddies with a beer or two and it could even get better. :yum: :D :yum: :gun1: :flame2:
 
I've heard chewing gum will kill them.. I've bought groundhog smoke bombs.. light it.. throw it down the hole and cover w/ rock.
 
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