A hunting in general question

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
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.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
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.
 

JustJim

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:rofl:

Tremors? Documentary? Good one . . .

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!
 

L Ross

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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?
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.
 

Edward R Southgate

Component Hoarder Extraordiniare
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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Edward R Southgate

Component Hoarder Extraordiniare
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.
Especially if you urinate on them . :rofl:
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
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 ..........
 

Rockydoc

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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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Missionary

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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.
 

todd

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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.