Looked outside yesterday morning...

Jimmy G

5 year old buck +
and saw some fresh pocket gopher mounds, but I had to get to work. I came home to this........little bastard took out 2 of my thornless cockspur hawthorns. They were just coming into year 3 of growth , was hoping for a nice jump
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That really sucks.

I saw a couple fresh gopher mounds last week that were heading towards some apple trees, but that gopher found a box trap first!.

You might need to keep an eye on that location to see if the roots from that tree send up any new shoots. Maybe you'll get lucky and the gopher left enough roots to send up a shoot.
 
I lost a couple year old sawtooth and have lost fruit trees.I am ready when they start coming closer to surface.My ground is sandy so they stay deep until it gets warmer.I think I watched every video online and I have several traps including a gopherhawk
 
No kidding on the C4, they had my blood boiling. Last fall I lost a whole row of beautiful SWO to those jerks.

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I was not aware gophers were a threat to any tree. That is one critter I don't have to worry about where I am. Such a shame to loose trees ya got a couple years invested in.
 
Those groundhogs are no joke. I have about 30 holes running under the farm house and through the barns. I took out the groundhogs and now the skunks have moved in. One sprayed and stunk up the house for 3 weeks. Took that one out and then another came. When I caught that one, it sprayed. I have another week or two of that smell left I guess. I'm ready to go to war with you on the groundhogs (and skunks)!
 
I don't have gophers....but you can keep them to yourselves, thanks any way! I do have groundhogs. They are like a supersized gopher...at 10 to 15 pounds in size. They are a pest here and I shoot everyone I can. I cut a deer hunt short last year to shoot one. 30/30 messes one up pretty good!!!
 
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I was not aware gophers were a threat to any tree. That is one critter I don't have to worry about where I am. Such a shame to loose trees ya got a couple years invested in.

We can ship you some!

I have got two this spring.
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Groundhogs, we call them woodchucks, are just fox den contractors. Assuming they keep their distance from any structures, I let them go about their days in peace. That said, I took great pleasure in locating the camp outhouse directly over a chuck-hole that was just a little too close! Pay back is hell.
 
Groundhogs, we call them woodchucks, are just fox den contractors. Assuming they keep their distance from any structures, I let them go about their days in peace. That said, I took great pleasure in locating the camp outhouse directly over a chuck-hole that was just a little too close! Pay back is hell.
In ag/farm country I have seen the holes result in broken livestock legs in pastures and busted equipment in the fields. This is all costs money to fix. Ground hog is also an eating machine. They will destroy fresh soybeans and corn....again more loss of $$. I like to sit up on a hillside that overlooks a lower field with my 22-250 and nail them when I see signs of their activity. The one thing many folks don't know is that they can climb trees to some extent. I actually shot one out of a tree once. I am told they climb trees to get off the ground to avoid predators and then stretch out on the limb to sun themselves.

Yep they can keep their gophers....I got enough issues with my whistle pigs!
 
Yep, in ag/farm setting they do make good targets!
 
Yes - Groundhogs DO climb trees. I once saw one sunning itself on top of an old springhouse. No idea how it climbed up there.

Great sport / ag benefit to practice your long-range shooting at groundhogs. A well-placed .222 hp = buzzard supper.
 
We got’m both in Minnesota.

Ground hogs get shot on occasion, but I know no one that specifically goes on a ground hog hunt. Just not that many around.

I do tend to see rodent cycles on my farm. Ground hogs one year, rabbits another, then squirrels, etc.


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The pocket gophers have been HORRIBLE the last 2 years in my area sandbur. Always has to be something causing trouble...
 
Groundhogs are literally large squirrels. They're very good to eat.

From wikipedia:
"The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels"
 
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