First Day of Gopher season

Come visit the kitty litter and you can shoot until you’re plum tired of it.

My trips to S. Alberta are usually 5 straight days of shooting...and long days too. We get tired...but don't get tired of shooting gophers. Hours seem to fly by as long as you're seeing targets.
 
Snow dogs are a hoot, but with a pile of fresh snow in the last 48 hrs and given it's -29 here this morning I think we'll be a little while yet, usually get the first ones out around middle of March give or take.
 
Snow dogs are a hoot, but with a pile of fresh snow in the last 48 hrs and given it's -29 here this morning I think we'll be a little while yet, usually get the first ones out around middle of March give or take.

I was really hoping maybe to go this weekend in WMU 210 on the sections I can hunt. But alas it is also -25 and snowing. Supposed to get a 39* chinook tonight though. So maybe?!
 
some out around here to but i tend to leave them. id rather shoot more in a couple months

I poison them too. My livelihood is dependent on growing a crop. I usually welcome others to come help reduce the population. Might end up going home with some tasty sausage.
 
I poison them too. My livelihood is dependent on growing a crop. I usually welcome others to come help reduce the population. Might end up going home with some tasty sausage.

yes so do i, but i like shooting them to. soon as the crop is a couple inches up we are on it
 
Given that we just got another 15cm dump of snow for the 2nd time in a week and this morning it is -39 wind chill the snow dogs are safe for a while yet ........
 
100% serious. I have never seen one in Ontario let alone shot one. I genuinely don't know much about them!

Sort of like coyotes, leave them where they lie. Bait for the other ones, they have no problem eating each other.

If you get a chance to catch one, give it a shot of spray paint on its hide and let it go. The others will kill it for you.
 
Saw my first of the season this past weekend, standing proud as punch on a snowdrift. Hopefully get out this Sat or Sun to put a dent in the males.
 
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