the great ground squirrell massicre of 2010

[roastelk]

I'm looking for new ways to kill ground squirrels in mass numbers, I'm not fond of leaving out poison bait though. A friends ranch has been over nun by them, and we've basically been wandering around with with co2 pellet guns just picking them off as we can. Current bag count is near 600, and we haven't even made a dent in their numbers.

Said friend is currently scared of taking his horses out for fear of them breaking a leg in a hole.





btw.. the Richardson ground squirrel is the Canadian version of the gopher (northern US too). we don't actually have gophers up here.

[ITSOZAZ]

shock and awe.

[Dingfod]

1. Import some cobras.

2. When the cobra population gets out of control, import some mongooses.

3. Profit?

[Crumb]

have you tried flooding them out?

[Sock Puppet]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that wouldn't work. Didn't work on gophers when I tried it.

What did work was a possibly decades-old "Gopher Gasser" that my stepdad had kicking around in his garage. It was this fused thing that looked like a stick of dynamite. You had to dig up the mounds to expose the holes, put paving stones over the exit holes, and light and toss the thing in the entry hole and cover that hole as well.

I don't think they even make those anymore, so it was probably some insanely dangerous thing to use. But I never had any damned gophers ever again.

[wei yau]

Vengeance is yours! (http://www.hardwareandtools.com/Bonide-61110-Revenge-Mole-and-Gopher-Gasser-6645352.html)

Vengeance not permitted in Indiana and North Carolina

[Watser?]

I am already looking forward to the cartoon version of the Great Squirrel War of Canada.

[JoeP]

I'm looking forward to the 3D live action/CGI Hollywood movie.

title to be announced ...
Ground Force
Blazing Burrows
or simply
Squirrelz

[Ymir's blood]

If you kill all the golfers, they'll lock you up and throw away the key!

[roastelk]

Vengeance is yours! (http://www.hardwareandtools.com/Bonide-61110-Revenge-Mole-and-Gopher-Gasser-6645352.html)

Vengeance not permitted in Indiana and North Carolina

im gonna need a few thousand of those sticks, seriously its so bad you cant drive down there driveway without making roadkill of a few...more if you aim for em

crumb, flooding them out sounds great but how do you flood out a quarter section?

[chunksmediocrites]

This (http://www.bugspray.com/article/groundsquirrel.html) article seems pretty extensive, breaks down types of ground squirrels and possible means to repel and remove. What is their food source that is supporting this population?

My father-in-law got a lot of ground squirrels after the filbert orchard next door got blighted and cut down. He used live traps but it sounds like small potatoes (20-25 through the summer) compared to the army of critters you're up against.

[Dingfod]

Have you considered dynamite? There is almost no problem that can't be solved with a liberal application of high explosives.

[Doctor X]

Have you considered dynamite? There is almost no problem that can't be solved with a liberal application of high explosives.

Indeed.

http://lifeboat.com/images/tunguska_event.jpg

see any ground squirrels?

--J.D.

[irukandji]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/Thacrudd/demotivational/ground-squirrel-squirrel-demotivati.jpg