Posted by anonymous23 on March 07, 2008 at 11:52:07 from (68.6.75.94):
In Reply to: gophers posted by Nancy Howell on March 07, 2008 at 04:03:52:
I trap the heck out of them. I use these metal box traps that have a wire that snaps up and kills them. You think of the gopher borrow like a freeway system and the little mounds of dirt you see are at the end of an off ramp, what you want is to find the main tunnel and dig out enough so that you can have two traps, one going either way. Set your traps at midday as the gophers like to snooze then and if you set early the grass may be wet and that will transfer your human scent to the trap. Cover the trap very lightly with just enough fine dirt so there is no light getting through into the tunnel. I take some wire and attach two traps together running the wire through a small size cinder block so it can't be dragged of by a scavenger. I also use a 1/4 inch diameter metal rod as a probe to find the main runs. And if I see a coyote or bobcat I leave them alone as they are better at this than I am although if you are running stock you may feel different.That fellow upthread that advised paying a bounty has the right idea though.Some years I kill as many as fifty on about a half acre.
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