Killing Groundhogs!!!

[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