gopher shooting

Went out gopher shooting yesterday.My buddy and I shot around a 100.It's unreal what they do to the framer fields.Got to burn up alot of 22 shells

Jeezely, 'Dan ... must be nice out there with no snow ... we've still got too much here to see much of anything but road top ... altho it's gettin' there, and by next weekend we might be able to catch a few of 'em runnin' on the shoulders and in the ditches ...

Yeah, that's a lot of fun, and a good way to get a kid into shootin' ... I grew up with plenty of chances to take the BB gun (and after I wuz about eight-years-old, the .22) and wander off to find gophers when and where I could ... I learned a lot about shooting from that experience ... and it's still about the cheapest way to practice on hold/squeeze/sight alignment & sight picture and other skills ...

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

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Dang Dan, Did you get them all out of the same town? I ussually get about 10 and things slow way down. Hows the snow over there? We got about 2' the other day up at the mine. Thats gonna put a hurt on them bear comeing out to the welcome that I have planned for them.

We were hunting around a 75 acre field .I was riding a four wheeler with a friend as mine blew up last fall and I havent replaced it yet. We rode back and forth across the field shooting gophers as we saw them. We spent about 3 hours shooting. Gophers were thick. MY friend Les I rode with has already shot thousands out of there previously.

I hope to get out after the sage rats in the near future!
With the weather we've had this weekend, they ought to be crawling all over the place!

This ain't about "gophers" ... but I don't see a thread about "varmints" in general ... so ...

While werkin' with a guy today, the discussion turned to prairie dogs ... I asked him how he felt about folks shootin' @ 'em ... he said, "Any time ... "

WOOHOO!!!

Been tryin' to find a town nearby, so I wouldn't hafta drive most of a day to enjoy that type of action ... this is about a half-hour from our house ...

Son #1 is arrivin' tomorrow nite for a weekend with us ... he's bringin' the boys, since their mom is in Atlanta on a buyin' trip ... also bringin' the dog, so I'm gettin' the new play yard fence done just in time ...

OOPS!

tornado warnings goin' on, and MAJOR rain/wind @ the moment with LARGE hail also possible ... better shut down and get off the 'net ...

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

NRA, REMF, PF, NAHC-L, NAFC-L, KC, NPPA

Couple weeks ago before I could start haying gal & me put a hurting on a TON of gophers in pasture... we shot hundreds..had a pair of badgers checkin us out through out afternoon...we fed them well good time

Gopher shooting?
 
I've always been a big fan of Gopher fishing myself.
 
You get yourself a fishing pole, a lawn chair, a big jar of peanut butter, a case full of adult beverages and a lazy summer day.  Then you find a farmer with a gopher problem and it's "gopher fishin' time!"
 
"GOPHER ON!"  LOL!!!   
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve
 
 

oh my ...i was waiting for the gopher fishing story from Steve... hahahaha

 How heavy a line do you use do you use? heavy line and just horse them in, or light line and finesse them. Probably have to use a leader also. Have any pics of a one day catch?

don't encourage him.......lol

I wanna know what kinda hook do you use? Circle, Long shank, Barbless?

weyyeager:

We usually use the same fishing pole that we use for big northern pike; normally around 8 to 10 pounds.  Also, use a leader and a weight to get the line out to the the gophers.
 
You have to remember this was back in my teenage days when we did a vast array of not-so-intelligent things!  LOL!  It's a great way to kill an afternoon and a few pesky gophers.
 
deadeyerik:
 
Treble...  More hooks to attach the peanut butter on.
 
 
 
 
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve
 
 

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need to get this on video. I'll split the 10k with anyone who does it.  LOL

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Now that sounds interesting. The best part is when you get to Gopher another beer. Do Prairie dogs like peanut butter?

Oh man!
 
PETA would have a field-day with this forum!
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

"F" peta....hmmm I wonder if we could use peanut butter for them?!?!? I got some big Penn 6/0 rods...glob of peanut butter on a hook & lob it into the convention & reel one in....now that would be sport

No "sport" there, imho ... they're all a bunch of suckers, so whut's the fun in that? Catch one and ya gotta take it off the hook!

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

NRA, REMF, PF, NAHC-L, NAFC-L, KC, NPPA

 They would probably fall into the grass carp catagory being they dont eat meat. probably be real boney, large mouth, with no @$$.  NO CATCH AND RELEASE ALLOWED. Throw them on the bank and let them flop.

Nephew here on holidays so thined out the gopher herd some more