A hunting in general question

Depending upon where you live, gophers can be many species. In WA many call ground squirrel , gophers. In OH they are rodents a little bigger than a field mouse.

Here we set up lawn chairs and tri-pods and wait them out. They like the sun here.
 
These are gophers, not Pdogs. I know about the Pdogs. Didn't think gophers came out much at all. Dynamite and then shoot? Gas/bait/trap probably won't work.
 
Rick said:
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Tremors? Documentary? Good one . . .
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It has to be a documentary--no one could make that stuff up!

I have a real problem with "conspiracy theorists" (and "ancient astronaut theorists", and a few others). I worked with a very talented teacher (now a college professor) who is currently a respected member of the community of 9/11 conspiracy believers. One of my bio professors bought into the "theory" that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. I once saw a fistfight between two state legislators as each defended their "theories" on who really shot JFK, and why. And on and on and on . . . .

So when I get really frustrated and flummoxed, I feed into it. I've proven (by example) a dozen different ways that fire can't melt steel, and let the idiots use this to "prove" the WTC collapse had to have involved pre-placed explosive charges. I get to have real fun with the JFK theorists.
There have been times when I have argued--often successfully--that various B-movies were documentaries, sometimes camouflaged to "get the word out".

Prince Phillip didn't have to die. Hitler still lives: Von Braun took him to the secret moonbase before returning to surrender Peenemunde. The lower gravity on the moon is a much better environment for geriatrics, and Hitler will be 132 in a week or so. Prince Phillip was only 99! Since the British royal family is really German, a couple years ago Hitler invited Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth to join him there but they declined.

Of course it is true! After all, Prince Harry was photographed in a Nazi uniform!
 
popper said:
OK, hunting question. Can you successfully shoot gophers? Kid has ~30 acres bahia grass and gopher holes. Another forum guy asked for a 350 L cast load for gophers (silly to me, 22lr should do). I thought they were underground creatures.
Unrelated, who makes an inexpensive automatic clay bird thrower?
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I know the LaCrosse Rifle Club wants to sell off a bunch of clay pigeon traps and I think they were pretty cheap. I have contact info if you are interested.
 
Deer around here do not like perfume scents but I have never known them to be bothered by smoke of any kind . I killed a buck and two does one day in the 1980's sitting on a stump chain smoking Camels . I have two tripod stands and a ladder stand ranging in height from 12' to 18' but kill more deer out of a popup blind than all the others combined all the while puffing on a cheap cigar . The last deer I shot from the popup busted me from about 40 feet and snorted and stamped for a few minutes then walked right out in the open where I could kill her with my Ruger .357 Blackhawk .
 
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popper said:
Got the kid a trail cam, should arrive soon. She needs to figure out the 'trail' so as to not screw up animal 'paths' when setting up the property. Looking for a ground portable blind. Saw a chair/blind rig that looks neat but chair legs would sink in sandy soil real fast - got the Tshirt for that. Saw many have a 'shoot-thru' screen windows. How does that work? Only hunted sitting in a lawn chair for dove - in jeans and khaki shirt for dove, elevated box blind for hogs. I have heard that urinating from a tree stand will confuse them. Apple scent is supposed to be good too. Both attractants.
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Especially if you urinate on them . :rofl:
 
The only thing more terrifying than conspiracy theorists that are clueless about how things work is when those that do have a clue start to make sense and there's no rational way to even begin to argue the idea because it's solid ..........
 
Here is my hunting "condo". I do not park my SUV there when hunting. I have a modified, topless, Camo painted, Yamaha golf cart that will park under the stand.

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Rub yourself and gear with apples. They fall off trees and are free to pick up. Dear love apples and will change dirrections to follow them up.
But I only do so if I will be up off the ground as I have been tracked many times by those apple munchers. It gets disconcerting to get woke up from my 7am nap by some snorting deer in my face.
 
in my area, scent doesn't cause a problem. now, if you bathe yourself in Old Spice(i know a guy that did), scent becomes a problem #1. i do my hunting clothes in sport wash. not only is it a scent free, it is a uv killer. sport wash makes me seem "invisible". i(on the ground) have had deer so close, i could touch them. i could do this every year, including smoking cigarettes(i haven't touched them and alcohol in 10 years, i had a bad stroke). i make my movements small and quiet. wood smoke is also good too. i could not count the deer i have killed with building a camp fire in the woods.
 
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