Killing Groundhogs!!!

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Yep got a few families living NEXT to the veggie garden. TIME to do something. Picked up a trap, baited it with all kinda good stuff. Groundhogs says sure I will go into that, NOT! I can not shoot them, NJ Gun laws, BB gun has the same license requirements as a 22. SOOOOOOO, here it what I am thinking. Electrocution, I figure I bait them to a piece of sheet metal, cut into two, black wire on one sheet white wire on the other. Wait for our friends to come out, plug in wire to a non GFI plug. Think it will work?? Also picked up a smoke bomb, but they are under the shed, store owner says they can ignite the shed, so not an option. Any other ideas???

 

[Bob_Skurka]

I'm willing to bet that NJ gun laws forbid the use of silencers too?

 

[fivestring]

Have your NJ lawmakers come try and remove the groundhogs without a firearm. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Better yet, if you can catch the critters, release them on your lawmakers' property and let them figure it out. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
A BB is treated the same as a .22 in NJ?

 

[gone]

from what i hear a paint ball gun requirs an f.i.d. card, (i think thats what its called) in Mass. to buy. even a bow too. But you can still buy a muzzel loader in the mail! Go figgure! higher crime hardest gun laws, thank god N.H. is the (live free or die state) I f you can get between them and their hole they usualy won't run around you because there stupid and see strait line of corse rules will be broken some will take the long way, but iv'e killed a few with a shovel that way because wher i live now houses are to close to safly shoot! I couldn't begin to count how many shot back on the farm. If you can find holes usualy two not always, plug one and stick garden hose in other-drown the usless beast.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

Get yourself a piece of exhaust flex hose, the metal type is cheap, then shove one end in the hole and use your truck,car, lawnmower, rototiller or whatever has a motor to afficiate them. seal it up real good and you'll be able to see exhaust coming up out of the ground sometimes 20 ft away.

 

[GareyD]

We used to scout out both of the holes....watch for them to come out....run em back into their hole...block off the exit...aluminum dryer duct...old pickup set to run a little rich...hookup duct to truck to hole....enjoy your favorite beverage while the truck runs at fast idle /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

You also might think "Wrist Rocket" with the steel bearings...available at Wally World for about $20 or less....great way to spend your spare time /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

GareyD

 

[GareyD]

You type faster than I do....you beat me to my favorite trick... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Still got the Wrist Rocket part in though...

GareyD

 

[Wannafish]

"I couldn't begin to count how many shot back on the farm."

And I'll bet the critters didn't have a license to shoot either... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[gsganzer]

Two options:
Gas 'em!!!! Hook up a hose to your lawnmower or auto exhaust and stick it in the hole. (Make sure they're home first). Seal around the hose with some dirt and leave it running for awhile. The carbon monoxide should get them.

Trap 'em!!! There's some better traps out there that don't require bait. They're triggered when they climb out of the hole and clamp around them.

I believe that ground hogs have two holes. One of them is the maintenance hole (usually has some fresh dirt). You put the trap in the maintenance hole and cover the hole opening with some loose dirt. Ground hogs can't stand when the maintenance hole is plugged, so he'll go and clean it out. Make sure you stake the trap, otherwise, he'll walk off with it.

I'll see if I can find some information on the trap to use. (I learned all this from an 85 year old guy in Kansas, who makes his living being the town trapper).

 

[gsganzer]

I found it!! Try one of these gopher traps. That's what the old-time trapper used.

http://www.nwtrappers.com/catalog/traps/gophermole.asp

 

[ShaleniFarm]

We trap them, mostly. Use a "connabear" (not sure how to spell..) trap. I attached a pic of one big one I caught. My shoe size is 10.

We have also "smoke bombed" them. Find the hole throw a smoke bomb in it and close the hole up. Bought the bomb at the tractor store.....

Have a good one,
Neil.

 

[MossRoad]

I tried flooding one out from under the composter in the garden. Ran the hose for a long time. Several thousand gallons of water and the hole never filled up. Burried the tunnel a few times. That seemed to deter them. They got mad and moved into my garage! They don't like leaf blowers shoved into their tunnels! Came right out and moved into the back yard under the leaf pile. Railroad flair in a steel pipe. Stuck it in the hole. Put a board over the hole and sealed it with a few layers of dirt. 10 minutes later I saw smoke coming from the second hidden hole about 10 feet away, so I sealed that, too. Don't know if they were home at the time, but they haven't been back. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

One word of caution about killing them in their holes. My sister did that with a gopher gasser under their garage. Several days later, they smelled dead ground hog for about 2 weeks in their garage. It finally went away.

I put about $100 dollars of electric fence around my garden to protect $25.00 worth of vegetables. It works for ground hogs. 2 strands, one about 6 inches off the ground and another about a foot off the ground on the outside of the rabbit fencing. They were climbing the rabbit fencing to get in. They don't do that anymore /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Also, I just had to touch the fence to feel what it was like. Didn't hurt at all. Took off my sandal and put bare foot on the ground. ZZZZZTTTT! Yeaowy!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif hee hee, do it again! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[milkman]

Insuate a link to terrorists, Rummy and Cheney will take care of the rest

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

A friend of mine used to tell the story about killing rats by cutting off the end of an extension cord and stripping the wires. He would then insert the ends into something like an M80 and smear the whole thing with peanut butter. After lowering it out the window and into the alley, he would wait for the rat to start chewing on the peanut butter, and then plug in the other end of the cord.

Come to think of it, he looked a lot like that guy on Caddy Shack. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Steve

 

[Egon]

Find one of the holes and get a Vacum truck to suck em up.

Egon

 

[rockinmywaypa]

One year my uncle decided to clear a bunch out so he went to the CO-OP and got some cyanide tablets. He had to take a half hour safty course before they would release them to him. Apparently all he had to do was toss one down each hole. They're probably banned nowadays. I read in a magazine that bubble gum dropped in the hole would bung them up or something and cause them to die, haven't tried it myself tho so don't really know if it works. On a farm nothing works as good as a decent dog, had a good one 25 years ago. He had Dad's as well as 3 neighbours farms picked absolutely clean, you couldn't find a hole anywhere untill 2 or3 years after he died, they started moving back. sure miss him now.

 

[SimS]

If electricity doesn't work. Try explosives.
Rodenator

 

[GaryM]

That looks great. I have a propane tank, and I have an oxygen tank. All I need are some connectors, hose and an ignition system. I'll bet the igniter from one of my potato cannons would work!

 

[Hank]

<font color="purple"> A BB is treated the same as a .22 in NJ? </font>

AZ has some pretty liberal firearms laws, but AZ Game & Fish says a pellet rifle is the same as a .22 (or .308 for that mattter) in the context of "taking game".

The law says one cannot discharge a firearm, for the purpose of taking game, with 1/4 mile of a residence, and that applies to a pellet rifle too.

I'm on a six acre lot in the country (outside of incorporated towns), yet I cannot legally shoot a rattlesnake on my property, even with a pellet gun, because my neighbors are within 1/4 mile. I can target shoot, though.

BTW, this is widely ignored. Rattlesnakes seem to be fair game anywhere. Even in the Game & Fish laws, there is no bag limit on Western Diamondbacks. For Mohaves (described locally as "permanently pi$$ed off"), you can only take four per day.

 

[MossRoad]

I can't believe that company could get liability insurance! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif