RSKY
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My 82 year old mother lives on a farm in Western Kentucky. Within sight of her house four other widows live by themselves. Each of these ladies, the yougest in in her mid 70s, will wage unrelenting war on moles all summer long. When one is killed it will be hung on a fence so the others can see. Each lady has a different method.
My mother has problems mainly in her back yard. She will stand with the door open and wait for a mole to start working in a run. When she sees one working she runs out the door, grabs a shovel and water hose, kicks or digs 5 to 6 feet behind where the mole is working and inserts the hose. Soon the mole digs out of the ground to escape the water and is dispatched with the shovel.
The lady directly across the road from Mom uses traps that use a spring to drive spikes into the mole run. Her yard has five or six set all summer long.
To the north west of Mom, on the other side of the highway, the lady, who is the youngest of the group uses a hoe and shovel to hit thru the dirt to kill em or dig em out and dispatch them.
To the west across the road the lady uses an ax or an old long handled pitchfork to stab the moles as they work. She has not killed that many.
But perhaps the best one is Wanda who lives across a 5-acre field to the south west of Mom's place. She uses a 22 rifle loaded with hollow points. Although I have hever seen the rifle I know it holds ten rounds. How do I know you ask? Because I will be sitting on the carport talking with Mom when I will hear BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM!!! Mom will smile and say, "Well.... Wanda just got another one."
The 87 year old sits in a lawnchair in her yard reading with the rifle beside her. When she sees activity in a mole run she runs, hurries anyway, to the spot and places ten shots starting at the end of the run and working back. Then she digs out the dead mole and hangs it on the barbed wire fence.
Mom tried this using a .410 single shot shotgun but could not reload quick enough. Another lady across the road tried it with either a 16 guage or 12 guage shotgun by sticking the barrel into the mole run and angling towards the working mole. I never found out what happened but according to Mom she only tried it once.
Anyway these five older ladies wreck havoc on the mole population around their houses.
And you know what, they all have farm equipment, lawn mowers, tools, and what not sitting around outside their houses but nothing is ever stolen and nobody is ever bothered.
Wonder why?
My mother has problems mainly in her back yard. She will stand with the door open and wait for a mole to start working in a run. When she sees one working she runs out the door, grabs a shovel and water hose, kicks or digs 5 to 6 feet behind where the mole is working and inserts the hose. Soon the mole digs out of the ground to escape the water and is dispatched with the shovel.
The lady directly across the road from Mom uses traps that use a spring to drive spikes into the mole run. Her yard has five or six set all summer long.
To the north west of Mom, on the other side of the highway, the lady, who is the youngest of the group uses a hoe and shovel to hit thru the dirt to kill em or dig em out and dispatch them.
To the west across the road the lady uses an ax or an old long handled pitchfork to stab the moles as they work. She has not killed that many.
But perhaps the best one is Wanda who lives across a 5-acre field to the south west of Mom's place. She uses a 22 rifle loaded with hollow points. Although I have hever seen the rifle I know it holds ten rounds. How do I know you ask? Because I will be sitting on the carport talking with Mom when I will hear BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM!!! Mom will smile and say, "Well.... Wanda just got another one."
The 87 year old sits in a lawnchair in her yard reading with the rifle beside her. When she sees activity in a mole run she runs, hurries anyway, to the spot and places ten shots starting at the end of the run and working back. Then she digs out the dead mole and hangs it on the barbed wire fence.
Mom tried this using a .410 single shot shotgun but could not reload quick enough. Another lady across the road tried it with either a 16 guage or 12 guage shotgun by sticking the barrel into the mole run and angling towards the working mole. I never found out what happened but according to Mom she only tried it once.
Anyway these five older ladies wreck havoc on the mole population around their houses.
And you know what, they all have farm equipment, lawn mowers, tools, and what not sitting around outside their houses but nothing is ever stolen and nobody is ever bothered.
Wonder why?
