Pocket gophers

[Cbb1722]

Who has them and how do you get rid of them? Them leaving those big dirt mounds leave good hole filling dirt but they are like rats at my grandmas. The snake id thread got me wondering, do chicken/rat snakes eat these things?

[floyd80]

I found a 16 gauge to be pretty effective. I finally put out a grub worm killer that eliminated a bunch of other insects and have had no problems since.

[Chew]

You scared me. I thought this was another thread about the John Wayne photo:

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=463354

[JMAR]

I thought you were talking about kids going for your wallet

[Z7_Matt]

You scared me. I thought this was another thread about the John Wayne photo:

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=463354

haha

[sharkhunter]

You scared me. I thought this was another thread about the John Wayne photo:

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=463354

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[Aggie]

I used to trap them as a kid. They make gopher traps. All you have to do is open the tunnel in the mound and set the trap in the tunnel. No bait needed. They will come and try to seal up the tunnel. Maybe your local feed store will have them. Probably a poison too.

[Andy]

Out in my field I use elston 300 gopher plow behind my tractor but this year I found a machine that is hand held to use in my yard called YARD BUTLER and it works. They can be found at feed stores or on line at their web site.......It beats trying to shoot them and trap them I have tried both ways.....Andy

[sabreguy]

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Good one

[JHarrell89]

Hahahahahaha. i can't post what i would really want to!

[Hoggslayer]

One like this and they will be gone.

[Ca$ey]

Out in my field I use elston 300 gopher plow behind my tractor but this year I found a machine that is hand held to use in my yard called YARD BUTLER and it works. They can be found at feed stores or on line at their web site.......It beats trying to shoot them and trap them I have tried both ways.....Andy

Do you have to actually bait their tunnel or just put it in the ground anywhere? My biggest concerns with poisoning them was that my dog would dig up the dead poisoned gopher and eat it.

[Andy]

I push the probe on yard butler till you feel it drop and then you have located a runway. twist the handle put gopher bait under ground...they had them at feed store in poth.

[SnakeID]

The pocket gopher is the sole food source for the Louisiana pine snake (non-venomous). There's only a dozen or so known to exist still in East Texas. If you live anywhere east of Lufkin, I'd caution against killing the pocket gophers as it's one step closer to killing off the last of our pine snakes.