Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootenays
It's not hunting it's pest control.
No different than swatting a fly.
No different than swatting a fly.
It's that time of year again: Destroy all gophers!
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the spank
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Planet Earth Wearing My Tinfoil Hat
It will be a while here in Lloyd.We are still up to our asses in snow! Which is ok because my 22-250 is still back at Ruger for warranty work. I just can't see myself trying to take them out with my .348, not at $3/ round! LOL
AlbertaGunslinger
Regular
- Location
- The Wide Open Prairie
Duffy, gophers are a plague, they need to be hunted with no sympathy or mercy. Not only that but anyone who has had a horse or other live stock break their leg in a gopher hole will tell you that the little bastards deserve every single bullet that comes their way. Normally I would agree that celebrating a kill splattered across the ground is not something a good hunter does, but gophers are different, I will be grinning ear to ear every time I nail a gopher and watch it somersault across the prairie.
You can't please everybody. There is nothing I find offensive about this, but some bark eating hippie might. But I guess they don't want to see any other point of view. These are not cute little harmless critters, they are a costly plague.
- Location
- Peace River, Alberta
Like hell you will!
- Location
- AB foothills
This is the hunting section of CGN, period. If certain people don't like it they can leave and go to other sections of the board.
Don't let those guys get under your skin, post pictures and tell us about your hunts. Infractions will be handed out to those who continue to derail threads.
- Location
- Where the sun shines
Yep. My gopher hunting is out on deeded ranchland at the request of a friend. She treats her animals better than most humans treat one another, but she holds nothing back when it comes to gophers. She's had enough animals end up in a bad way because of them, and the damage they do to her hay fields is beyond comprehension. We are talking several thousand dollars worth of loss a year, before me and the boys rolled out there with a glint in our eye and a crate of ammunition at hand.
I try to kill quick as possible, if that's any consolation to the whingers, but I still laugh when I see one exploded by a fast-moving pill, or when they do the headshot dance when one of my Marlins make a statement.
I was just out today, as a matter of fact. Turns out I had no batteries in my camera though, so I can't prove it. Had my new Marlin 7000 out for some fun, and man is it a good gun for reaching out with. Very consistent, even with bulk 555s.
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Haha that last bit made me loose it.
" We do our summer Olympics different round here ".
Lols, someone needs to splice a video of flying gophers with people raising placards of 5-10 ratings.
Ok I gotta ask though, as someone who lives in the city and mostly plinks at steel or paper. Where the F*** do I sign up to shoot these little bastards, err.. "help out our farmers"?
- Location
- Where the sun shines
That's... a really good idea. I have a bit of talent fiddling with videos. If I have the time, just maybe I can have some fun with that.
First, get your guns and ammunition and put them in your trunk. Then, drive out a bit into the countryside along the back roads until you see a whole lot of farmland. Then, you knock on doors and smile all friendly like and ask if you can hunt gophers on their land.
Most farmers are overjoyed to have people snuffing their varmints for them. Just take care not too shoot towards buildings, equipment or livestock and you will do well.
- Location
- Peace River, Alberta
The place I shoot is not on the list this year. Anyone want to help a guy out with some suggestions.
I've been looking for a gopher shooting buddy here in the Hat. If you take me to your honey hole, I will take you to mine
I am in no way opposed to anyone shooting some ground squirrels. It is the blood lust and "grinning ear to ear" that makes me think the fellows helping rid the farmer of a problem are not doing much for the image of hunters. We do not need to try and please anti-hunters but there is a very large group of "non-hunters that we should try and get on our side and not drive them over to the other side.
I don't think I am an extremist either way but am closer to the first group. It is pretty hard to sell non-hunters on hunters enjoying the hunting experience and closeness to nature and fellow hunters with some of the pictures and statements on here. is what I said. Not derailing anything on the thread.
- Location
- Where the sun shines
When I want to enjoy my hunting experience and bring myself closer to nature, I go duck hunting. I will paddle myself slowly out to the blind in the wee hours before dawn when the autumn air is all mist-shrouded silence, scented with ice and fallen leaves. I will set myself in the blind and prepare my gear with the slow care of a samurai preparing for battle, setting things just so, just right, making sure everything is in order, then I will sit myself down and wait for the dawn to break. A thermos of coffee or soup at hand, listening to the world around me.
My hunting experiences are pure zen, and I love them like nothing else. I don't even need to pull a trigger after a morning like that to consider myself having had a good day.
Gopher shooting is extermination: kill as many you can in as short a matter of time as possible. There is no zen, no calm, no moment of pure enjoyment; it is loud, frantic hours with rifles roaring and bets being placed as to who can get the best kill or get the most air.
You are confusing gopher hunting with proper 'hunting'.
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- Location
- AB foothills
OK Duffy you have said your piece, anything from here on in is derailing the thread. If you don't like it move along or an infraction will be coming your way.
This thread or the pictures in it aren't going anywhere, no matter what you say, get it?
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- Location
- Where the sun shines
I've been looking for a gopher shooting buddy here in the Hat. If you take me to your honey hole, I will take you to mine
Interested, though I've got no time until at least the 20th, I think.
Little critters are all around elk point and vermillion. I got a couple by the hat already, met a nice dude on the way out to foremost we are going to go when I get off work, it pays to talk to the old timers. they have a lot to say sometimes. Plus I guess he knows some close spots Ive seen many little critters in but don't know the land owner however he does. Too bad we don't have a year long season for deer they look like cattle grazing there is so many I've seen all over Alberta.
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