Gophers:The score thread......

[XD40coyote]

Originally Posted by Pukindog

Timbrfrmr,

Mighty sportin' of ya to give them the chance to get away. Why not blast em in the trap?

Jeff

I know a farmer who did this with some skunks, he covered the trap with an old blanket or something to keep the skunk calm, moved it to a field and opened the door and kept it open somehow, skunk would waddle out and he would shoot it after it was several feet from the trap. Kept the trap from getting sprayed and stinky.

Shooting a groundhog after it exits the trap will keep blood from getting on the trap, and may help to keep the next groundhog from being spooked and not going in the trap. I just shoot them in the cage and dump them out right away to minimize the blood. .22 to the head. And they do jump around like a raccoon when head shot, well 3 of the 4 I got did. The 1st one just dropped and twitched.

Oh and I didn't get the groundhog living under the pool shed, caught a raccoon there instead! Groundhog is still there( and I could smell it!), would REALLY like to use conibear traps for that one. Also saw one up in a hay field there today, but suppossedly the farmer is taking care of the farm field ones nowadays.

[timbrfrmr25]

pukin... can't detect your level of sarcasm so i'm not exactely sure how to respond but i think it was fairly sporting, if i missed he got away! to bad i don't miss.....................

[Swamp Yankee]

I finally got one with the Bow yesterday. The shot was taken from 30 yards. I hit him in the left ear and the arrow passed out the right flank. It was a tough shot as he was close to the ground so I had a limited sight window. Now I just need to get the other one living under the shed but I am afraid he is using the force. When ever I have a chance to get him no matter what I try he takes off before I can get a good shot.

Mike Mc

[moose]

Well I am up to 20 hogs this year. Not bad for just having a few fridays to go out and shoot them! Plus my record last year was only 12 The bad thing is, I shot at this one little hog 4 times and he is still eating grass....checked the gun at the range and affirmed my fears that the scope is not off at all. The good thing that came from this is that now my rifle is even more accurate, and am now shooting sub-MOA groups! Now where is that groundhog.....

[cheesesteakfo]

Since switching from .223 Rem. to .22 LR w/CCI Stingers not only has the body count increased dramatically but the fun factor had too. I think the sound of the .223 spooks Hogs in a larger area while the .22 doesn't. I am very impressed with the CCI Stingers, I ranged 4 hogs hog at over 200 yds and made 3 kills. If I didn't let my couriosity get the better of me I'd have never taken a shot that far with a .22. My best one day take was 16 hogs and total since June 23 is 87 hogs. Just when I thought I wiped out all the hogs at one farm I visit, I returned yesterday because the alfalfa was just harvested and there were hogs a plenty, seven which took unexpected dirt naps.

The hog in photo was taken last year with .223 @ 378 yds. using Winchester 45 gr. JHP. Hog was facing my direction and shot was placed just below jaw and exited mid rear of back. I highly recommend these round for superb performance at various ranges. I purchased 10 40 rd. boxes of them for around $15.00 a few years ago at Cabelas in Hamburg. I wish now that I would have bought their entire stock of them.

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[timbrfrmr25]

got a couple more in the last three weeks, nothing too spectacular except the one last night. No wind, 255 yds with the 17 hmr. When i went and inspected i found that i had complete pass through with the 17gr accutip. Some say the 17 is maxed out at 150. I assure you that that is not the case and am doing my best to prove that every chance i get.

[jtkratzer]

I don't think I've ever seen a gopher in Pa. We used to shoot them with BB/pellet guns and the .22 in Minnesota. If we couldn't find any, we did what you'd see in a cartoon and ran a garden hose down the hole and flooded them out. I was like 8 or 9 years old at the time. We also would use traps, the kind you would use for muskrats, not your traps you use for live trapping, and just turn them upside down over the hole so when they came out, it snapped right on their necks. Seemed to work well, never saw one struggle.

http://www.schmittent.com/webpic-Mon...1.5%20trap.jpg

[Pukindog]

I believe the thread is mistakenly calling groundhogs gophers.
Don't really know if gophers are found in PA ( 4 legged kind ).
However, I got nine chucks last Thursday evening in Lancaster County. (Going again tomorrow night if the weather cooperates.
Not counting kills to date.

Jeff