Gophers!!

[Pistonbroke12ga]

Cool. Now someone please import them into Southwestern Ontario.

You know not what you ask for, young Padewan....

 

[titch--]

I found in the 80's when I was young is when I saw big patches of gophers, but nowadays I dont see those big patches anymore.

 

[Suputin]

Do you have to shovel them up? Do they rot, get eaten, what? I mean, 200 is a lot.

You can kill hundreds in a field and come back the next day and there won't be a body anywhere. Coyotes and hawks clean up the mess very quickly. The only time I have seen bodies left over the next day was when we killed over a thousand in a day.

I think you'd guys would be supprized at just how much the bullets travel even if they do fragment.I put a 4'x4' cardboard 20 feet behind a target. The spary was shocking to me atleast. It looked like it was hit with a shotgun.
I'm not saying don't use. 223, just saying that you have to be a little more careful shooting.

Bullet fragments wouldn't travel any kind of distance because they have almost no weight. Twenty feet is nothing. I once blew a gopher in half with a frangible .243 round and the two halves of the gopher were 20 yards apart. If you ever shoot gophers on the snow you will see blood spray 20+ feet away from the impact point.

 

[Chilidog]

You know not what you ask for, young Padewan....

True enough. I guess the alternative is to export me from Southwestern Ontario. But then, Alberta's getting a little too liberal for me. I'm not sure I could fit in.

 

[glockgrouptherapy]

True enough. I guess the alternative is to export me from Southwestern Ontario. But then, Alberta's getting a little too liberal for me. I'm not sure I could fit in.

i moved from ontario and ya... but not as much bs when it comes to firearms

 

[nick237]

All th ghopers are hiding too cold now seen one a week ago none yesterday at the shop

 

[albertacoyotecaller]

We have contained most of the liberals to Calgary and Edmonton so if you stay away from those two places you should be fine. And their is no liberalism in the gopher fields.

 

[metalbender]

Great to read all the gopher stories. Was out last week to bag a few strays. I agree on not touching them. Where I generally shoot the farms are rather close, not large expanses like some of you get to go to. Around here the land owners I shoot for relate to the 22 rimfire more so than centerfire. With smaller pastures you just shoot a hundred or so and move a hundred yards and start over.