Here a gopher there a gopher everywhere a gopher

[Cade]

Took a couple of friends over the divide to a ranch for a gopher shoot. Set a couple of Caldwell shooting chairs in the back of the truck and I shot from the front. We started shooting about 9:45 and quit at about 3:30. This is the same place I took my grandson 2 weeks earlier & we shot 361 gophers. We drove the same field and maybe started take a dent in the population. We used counters again to keep a Talley of our kills. Our total for the day was 816 maybe more as we were unsure of some shots . Shot about 1100 22 & 17 HMR rounds. Weather was nice & sunny very little wind and got into the 70's. Couldn' ask for a better day. Best day ever for total kills (816). The fields have just been destroyed because of the gophers. The rancher really appreciates what we are doing.
Enjoy &have a good day.

 

[jpx2rk]

Sounds like a fantastic day.

 

[Yagingaboy]

My brother's and I are headed to Malta in a few weeks to take care of some prairie dogs over there. It is getting a bit out of hand with the population.

 

[Ohio Varmint Shooter]

That bottom pic (with the lefty) is just beautiful. Those mountains in the background....wow. (I live in flatland Ohio) Where in general are you?

Not allowed to shoot from a truck in Ohio.

Gophers? Are we talking the same thing as the midwestern groundhog? (some use this term interchangeably) I can't imagine 800+ groundhogs. I've talked to people around here...seems coyotes have eaten them all over the past 15 years.

For 800+ in a day, I'd drive a long way!
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Ok, I just looked it up. There's a difference between gophers and grounhogs. GH are much bigger.

 

[snert]

so is a gopher a prairie dog or a squirrel or...?

 

[mtlhdr]

Sounds like a blast! My guess is ground squirrels or p dogs, gophers don't spend much time at all top side and don't live in big colonies. Regardless, that's a heckuva day...

 

[L.Sherm]

They are a Columbian ground squirrel

 

[P72]

I have shot both - the Columbian ground squirrel (Urocitellus columbianus) in Oregon and the somewhat smaller Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii) in Montana.