Wanted: gopher hunters in SW Sask

Grouse Man

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I got a response back from one of the councillors in a small town in SW Sask, who would gladly put local farmers in contact with shooters. Send me a Personal Message with your email address, name and phone number, and I'll forward them along so that they can contact the hunters directly.

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In his own words, the guy says it's bone-dry there and the gopher population is booming. Sounds like they need guys right now. I've forwarded names so far, so it's up to the locals to contact you guys.
 
Thanks for posting this Grouse man. I am interested. I think I'd like to team up with some friends to car pool. I can see it costing $250 in gas in my gas guzzler to driver there and back. It would be nice if they provided some mileage compensation. Were you at the CGN Selkirk get together yesterday?
 
Keep PM'ing your contact into to me. The farmers would rather not post their names and phone numbers on the web, so I'll just keep passing them along.
 
Bounty on Gophers

Hi,
I was born in the mining camp owned by The Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Coal Co.It was close to Bienfait in Southern Sask.
In the early 1940's there was a bounty of 1 1/2 cents per gopher tail.
I don't recall who payed it,but I think we took them to the
post office.
Thats the way we got spending money.
We would stuff our pockets with potatoes,and head out on the
prairie,with empty water pails,find a slough,I hope the spelling
is right,fill the pails,then find a colony,pour water in one hole
and someone waits at the other hole and grabs the begger.Voila
=1 B.B Bat thats a( sucker) in case you younger guys don't remember.
After the "Hunt" we would find a snow fence along the railway track
tear off boards for a fire,chuck the potatoes in the ashes take them out when done and charred black,they were not foil wrapped of course
Some of the black soot would get on the inside kind of like pepper
my taste buds are drooling yet.
If this boreing,forgive a old guy his fond memories.

Bumukas
 
My dad was born in 1930, grew up around Morden and then Miami and he used to kill gophers for the bounty back then as well. They didn't have 22's. He taught me how to do it with a piece of bailing twine. You find a gopher standing at his mound and scare him down. You then walk upwind to his hole, and slide the little sliding noose you made from the bailing twine, slightly down the hole, about an inch, surrounding the circumference. You then lie in wait until he pops his head up. He will take al little look before he climbs out. You yank the string and you got him. You twirl the gopher on the end of the rope around and high speed like a slingshot, then slam him into the ground. Dead gopher. Cut off tail and repeat process. Works pretty good too.
 
Snaring the gophers ..

We used to snare gophers in my school yard back in the ol' days in a little town called Grassy Lake here in Southern Alberta ... I only caught a few but one kid named Ronnie Kaytor was really good at it ... He probably knew about being downwind.:confused: I never figured that one out for about 40 years ... (and I probably read about it) :redface: I'm set to go this weekend to shoot some of those gophers but I have to help move one old lady and pay my respect to another ... I reckon the gophers can wait for their destiny.:)
 
In Kerrobert Sask where im from we used to drown gophers at the golf course. There was lots of standing water so we would grab a bucket and start pouring down the holes. The gopher would pop his head out where we would have our pellet gun barrel waiting and the little buggers would bite the end of the barrel. We would Shoot em down the throat.
Good times shooting gophers in Sask.
 
Are "out of Provincers" (non residents) required to buy a non resident small game licence to shoot gophers there? if so what does it cost just for curiosity sake?
 
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