How to manage Gopher Population

[zztex]

This guy!


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Au Revoir, gopher

[Pistol]

Gopher Hawk
I have used the Victor Gopher traps too with some success, but the Gopher Hawk was worth the money!!

[teamron]

I have a jagd that would make a great partner for the lab

And I'll raise you a rootin Rott...Sometimes I think the gophers and moles are'nt all that bad when I look at the aftermath...

[BLACKFINTURKEY]

Thanks for all the info and the offers for gods to dig up my manicured yard but I’ll pass on those

[Hunt life]

Good old mean barn cat! Fixed. I find them all the time dead around the yard the cat gets them

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[RifleBowPistol]

I have been told gopher traps work, but never tried one. My great grandfather had some in his collection of stuff. After he died, I found them, but never tried them.

The place where we have lived for the past two years, used to have a lot of gophers, actually still does on most of the rest of the property. They ate two of my freshly planted pecan trees and war was declared. We got some gopher poison, put it in fresh gopher tunnels, since then they have mostly stayed out of our yard. When I was a kid, I shot quite a few with my bow and pellet guns. We always had gophers in the yard. A many as we have around our property, I am a bit confused as to why they now stay out of our yard.

I learned a good bit about gophers as a kid, after hunting and killing quite a few. I found if you go and open up a fresh plug they have in the tunnel, at the top of the mound, they will fairly quickly plug it back up. So when I poisoned them. I removed the plug from a fresh mound, then put the poison in the tunnel. Then put a bucket over the mound. So there was not any sun light shining down the tunnel. I knew they would just push a plug to the top of the whole and cover the poison in the process. By leaving the hole open, putting the poison down the hole, then the bucket over the hole. Every mound or tunnel I poisoned, I seemed to kill that gopher.

I tried poisons years ago, I did not think of the bucket trick, every time they pushed a plug to the surface and buried the poison. So it never did any good.

The other thing I have been told a few times, is sound, noises/vibrations traveling through the ground. Is supposed to scare them away. It does seem to help. If you have animals that walk all around your yard, most of the day, that should help keep them out of your yard, that or people walking around the yard. I read some people have put out a radio, and let it play all day and night, that seemed to keep them out of the area. I think those pin wheel looking things, you used to see people have in their yards. I think those are supposed to make vibrations or sounds that can be heard underground, for the purpose of scaring off gophers.

I am still curious why the gophers have chosen to stay out of our yard, I only poisoned three or four of them. At one point, I though the fact that I put out a water trough, that attracted a lot of gray foxes. That the foxes may have been getting the gophers. I would bet they are great at catching gophers. Having seen nature shows, there foxes hunt mice under multiple feet of snow. I figure they would probably be pretty good at finding and killing gophers. That may be where some of our gophers have gone. I would much rather have the gray foxes than **** gophers.

[Quackerbox]

smoke and fire.

roman candles or smoke bombs in gopher holes. For moles, uncover two tunnels to vent. Add 89 octane, wait a few minutes for the fumes and light match. Done.

Or uncover hole and insert water hose, wait with caliber of choosing. .410 works well

[Dusty Britches]

I gave up on trapping them. Just to keep them out of the yard, I poor dirty mop water (pine sol with water) into the mounds. It will keep them away for a 2-4 months. I started pouring it on my flower beds to keep the armadillos out. It works well.

[denimdeerslayer]

I rented a gopher machine and did my hay field and a few pastures. Seems to be working good where it actually went down all the way.

[Chad C]

Don't do this!

https://youtu.be/2XBQbS0ACm4

[timberking]

Been worst year for vermin I can remember. Use a trap for gophers and let the moles be. Have spoon, probe, and putty knife to find and open tunnels. They chewed the cable from TV dish into and try to dig around the foundation.

[MnM]

victor gopher traps, I catch 30-40 a year in them

This is what I use too. I don’t dig up the mounds. Try to find the tunnels that connect the mounds. I use a piece of rebar and stab the ground till I find the tunnel. Then using two traps on either side of the tunnel. Then fill the hole back in with dirt. Make sure and tie the traps together to a short piece of rebar in order to keep from losing them.

[JTate]

Caught a pile of them with gopher hawks.

[Low Fence]

Gopher hawks are the real deal!!!

I’m waging war currently. Caught 1 today. 3 set now