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I SHOT IT!

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randalee

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Let me preface this by saying I have spent over 25 dollars on all manner of poisons/deterrents/smoke-out products trying to get rid of this pocket gopher in my yard. He has been destroying our beautiful lawn, pushing up 2-3 foot mounts of dirt all over the place. I'm afraid of walking out there because I may step on a spot where I could push through with my foot and hurt myself.

WOO HOO! Shot that pocket gopher in the front yard. Man, I have been trying to kill him for over a year now. I've been practicing with the pellet gun to make sure I can shoot accurately, and boy, I got him!

I got home from work last night to find a 2-foot mound of dirt in the front yard again. Well, as I'm walking into the house, I see him next tot he mound, pushing dirt! He saw me, and dove down into his hole. Well, I pulled out the pellet gun, and sat down on a chair in the front room. I sat with my rifle scope focused in on his little gopher hole for what seemed like an eternity. (Probably 20-30 minutes...) If he catches a glimpse of me, he always disappears for awhile before coming back up.

Well I went to get a bottle for the baby, and get the other two kids busy with some toys in the playroom. As I got back in the front room, there he was -- out of the hole again! I laid the baby down on the couch and got the pellet gun down again, aiming again for his hole. Well within 10-15 seconds, he popped back up again. He didn't even know what hit him! Pellet shot straight thru him, and I saw a puff of dirt kick up directly behind him. He flopped once, and was able to dive back into his hole.

I ran out there and stuck the hose in the hole in order to hopefully finish him/drown him out. I am just hoping there isn't a whole family of 'em under my yard, or else I'm in for a surprise...
 
Do you have a southern accent? Were you wearing a flannel shirt and a trucker hat? Better yet, were you shirtless when you shot the gopher?
 
sounds like my friends dad, he shot a raccoon that had been disturbing their chickens, killing them rather. he shot it with a 9mm, the raccoon was about 50 feet up a tree and just stuck its head around the trunk and thump! it hit the ground. I need to get a shot of the skin, he's gonna make a my excellent compatriot's skin hat out of it
 
He could've come out a different hole and made you feel like a fool for sitting there for 30 minutes while he laughed his ass off from the other side of the yard.
 
Originally posted by: laurenlex
Can't. Get. Image. Of. Elmer. Fudd. Out. Of. Head.
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My wife has been teasing me for months while I've been going crazy trying to get this little fella. She said the same thing -- "you scwewy ol' wabbit!"
 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
He could've come out a different hole and made you feel like a fool for sitting there for 30 minutes while he laughed his ass off from the other side of the yard.
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Well I've been trying to fill every hole he's made, so when he pushes up a new mound, I notice immediately. I just got plumb lucky. I've sat up nights a few times trying to stay awake to catch a glimpse of him. I can't believe I pulled in the driveway in broad daylight and he was sitting right there.
 
I say you missed too... He 'flopped' becacuse he was startled and wanted to get the hell in his hole again... the puff of dirt was you missing.
 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
He could've come out a different hole and made you feel like a fool for sitting there for 30 minutes while he laughed his ass off from the other side of the yard.
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Didn't they make that into some kinda game?? I thought I saw it at Chuck E. Cheese's last time... 😕
 
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