heheh found a new club to join

[OutHouse]

just read this in the little 20 page weekly rural news paper that is throw in my driveway. I need to find this gunclub and join!!

"free praireie dog varmint control

whac hunting club shooters will help you control varmints that are doing damage to your property at no cost to you. experienced shooters who work around cattle, houses and other non-targts can perform surgical removal of prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes and other vermin"

 

[Kyteland]

Prairie dogs are pests. Most people look at them and say "Aaaawwwww, how cute!" but they have no idea the damage they do to the environment. Most of their natural preditors have been wiped out so they spread uncontrollably. They utterly destroy any environment they move in to. My mom grew up on a ranch bordering the Badlands NP in South Dakota and they constantly had them migrating on to their property. There was nothing they could do to stop it since they were protected by the park.

 

[OutHouse]

i just got back from lunch and was reading the Colorado Daily newspaper. its local to Boulder. On the front page is a piece about how a Prairie dog colony is migrating from open space to city park property. The city of boulder was going to put up a fence that goes a couple of feet from ground level to several feet below ground level to try to stop the pest from migrating. well that idea was stopped when the city found it it was going to cost $150,000. so the next step is to trap them and relocate them, But if the fields they have allocated for Prairie dog relocation are "full" they will kill them.

well that doesnt go over to well here in the tofu eaten, grass juice drinking, pachulii oil birkenstock wearin wannabe hippies here. i expect to see picketers outside city hall soon. thier solution is to wait until the colony that is spreading is to wait until a plaque epidemic thins out the heard. :disgust: yes they are that stupid.

 

[PanzerIV]

I saw a show with these guys with rifles and scopes up on a hillside picking off prairie dogs from way off. I am pretty sure they were the type of club you mentioned. I have no idea what channel it was on.

 

[KB]

I need a ground hog control club. The little guys are digging up my yard.

 

[huesmann]

The solution is pizen.

If you gotta gun, you still can't watch for them little fvckers every minute of the day.

Pizen is always on duty!

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: KB
I need a ground hog control club. The little guys are digging up my yard.

I'll supply my two boys to take care of the ground hogs for you.
.22 between the eyes = dead groundhog

Alternative solution (if they're reallllllly on your nerves)
Some gasoline at one entrance..
lit candle at the other entrance..

wait for it.
wait for it.

PHOOOOM. No more groundhog.


edit: out in the middle of no where, I like to watch groundhogs... even if I have a gun in my hand, they're safe from me. But, if they step foot onto my land, where digging a hole can mean a broken leg for an expensive animal, or a tractor rolling over, or any of a number of dangerous scenarios, then they're VERY unwelcome guests.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: huesmann
The solution is pizen.

If you gotta gun, you still can't watch for them little fvckers every minute of the day.

Pizen is always on duty!

WTF is "pizen"?

If you're referring to poison, that is an exceptionally bad idea. Poison isn't selective in what it kills, and anything that eats a poisoned prairie dog will probably die from it. When you're trying to remove one in your back yard you can generally get away with it, but prairie dog colonies can get huge. Poisoning them all would hurt the ecosystem more than just leaving them alone.