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Gopher problems

submitted by TheOriginal1Icemonkey to AskUpgoat 11 monthsMay 18, 2024 21:41:17 ago (+3/-0)     (AskUpgoat)

Anyone here dealt with or dealing with these fuckers, and are you winning? I call them “lawn niggers”. I’ve tried flooding them out with the hose and three times I’ve had them crawl up through the water and I smack em dead with the hose end. Otherwise I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on the smoke bombs with little success.
I can literally see one digging, drop a smoke bomb down its hole, cover it with a rock and come back later to pull the ruck off and see that the little nigger has backfilled the hole, pushing my smoke bomb up to the bottom of the rock.
I’m about to lose my shit over here with these lawn niggers.


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[ - ] SumerBreeze 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 03:06:52 ago (+1/-0)

I’ve used the snare traps successfully. It’s like a reverse rat trap that breaks their neck or chokes them out - placed above hole with some nice dandelions as bait.

[ - ] Looneyskiproony 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 08:10:57 ago (+1/-0)

Set up chair. Load rifle. Go to chair . Bring munchies and hydration to chair.Sit in chair. Wait for the fucker to pop his head out. Wack that sucker.

[ - ] DeusExMachina 2 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 00:49:22 ago (+2/-0)

Maybe try gassing them with CO2? Just mix up a batch of baking soda and vinegar in a quart size mason jars and place them under buckets covering a few holes that you've exposed. Jam down any other mounds you can find. Since CO2 is heavy it should fill the tunnels.

I've not tried this personally since I just let my dogs dig the fuckers out and they simply stopped coming on my acreage after a couple of years. Baking soda and vinegar are cheap the only question is how much it would take to get the job done. I've heard of people using the tailpipe method as @TheSimulacra mentioned as well.

[ - ] Nietzsche 1 point 11 monthsMay 20, 2024 08:12:44 ago (+1/-0)

Putting dry ice over their holes also works

[ - ] TheSimulacra 4 points 11 monthsMay 18, 2024 22:38:51 ago (+4/-0)

Put a hose on the tailpipe of your mower or tractor. Run the carbon monoxide into the tunnels. Plug as many exits as you can. Let it idle for an hour or so.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 12:33:33 ago (+0/-0)

I got one of those kits but returned it before trying it. I was afraid that restricting the exhaust might throw a code. I wish I had some old junk to run it off.