Your go to gopher cartridge?

[TheTooner]

My gopher gun is a Marlin 795 so .22LR and not fussy about brands.

 

[Scott_N]

Mine's a Sako Vixen .222

 

[scott_r]

.17 hmr or 22 LR, rimfires are classic gopher cartridges....gotta keep the tradition alive.

 

[kjohn]

.22 lr hollow point in whatever I happen to have in the bag. Next is 12 ga. of any old kind. I have just barely used a CZ 455 in 17 HMR, mostly because the gopher population has taken a dive lately.

It is good for the soul to load your pockets with as many 12 ga. as you can and saunter along in a good gopher patch and shoot until you get the jitters. Chases away the evil spirits from your body.

A good old gunner buddy and I spent two hours one nice morning shooting gophers with shotguns in an abandoned farm yard. It always strikes me funny to hear shotgun blasts from behind another building. I must be a bit crazy...

 

[Stahler]

.17 HMR out of my Savage heavy barrel tuned with a Timmy trigger. Love that thing. If I can see any part of that gopher out to 200, its dead. Just remember to put an good scope on it

 

[migrant hunter]

Lots of votes for the rimfires, and I can see why. I love my hornet, but you can burn through a lot of hours worth of handloading in a few minutes in a hot gopher patch. I need to get the scope back on my JR carbine. With cast bullets it's cheap and fast to handload for. Looking forward to letting it loose on those furry lille dirt rats.

 

[Csik boatguy]

You haven't lived until you go on a Gopher Safari. A Guided Hunt can cost a little more, but the memories last a lifetime.

I will get out there one day Looks to be a great time for sure

 

[Longwalker]

My Anschutz .22 Hornet. Tied for second are my Sako vixen .222 and Anshutz .22LR. All have their place.

 

[victor16]

Was .22 LR until I got my .17 HMR.....

 

[Brian46]

50bmg

 

[Elhurron]

17wsm

 

[conrad01]

22lr in something hollow point.
17hmr when there is more than one person in the truck to shoot over 75yards
22-250 45g jhp when you want to vaporize them.

 

[JayH]

120mm HEAT followed by a few bursts of 7.62 coax..............or my .22, what ever is handy...lol

 

[tokguy]

32-20 with 32 ACP manstopper bullets at about 1400 fps.
22 lr doesn't cut it after that.

 

[chisholm]

cooey model 60 in.22 and the .223 always comes out to play when I go too.

 

[DT741]

My Savage MK2 FV + Remington Yellow Jacket

My record is 120 meters, a mix of skills and luck was used that day

 

[rookie wildcat]

.17 hmr or 22 LR, rimfires are classic gopher cartridges....gotta keep the tradition alive.

How can a 12yr old cartridge be a Classic? Classic cartridges for gophers would be .22S, .22L, .22LR, or .22WM.
Then, maybe the .22 Hornet and the .220 Swift. Takes more than a decade +/- to make a cartridge a "Classic". That'd be like calling a .204 Ruger a "classic" even though I think the .204 will be around a long time.

 

[rookie wildcat]

My record, verified by a shooting buddy, was 165yds. Shooting a Stevens 300 with Winchester wildcats. Cheap river trail 3-9x 32 scope. Off of a bipod. Of course, it helped a lot that it was the first time the field had been shot so the gopher politely stood there while I shot all around it, there was almost no wind, and it took me 5 rounds to dial in the hold over and windage.

 

[dead meat]

I'll likely be giving the 17 Hornet i bought a try, assuming we have any gophers. Last year i saw very few in my pastures.

 

[dutchhunter]

we do not have them little fellows done here ,but for are ground hogs it is the 22 win mag and the 22 250 for the long shots ,,thy can weigh in at over 10lbs so the 22 250 really blows them up ,,D