dang, I figured they'd be holed up for the season.. well around here anyway.
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dang, I figured they'd be holed up for the season.. well around here anyway.
You may want to start carrying a revolver loaded with CCI shotshells out to the barn, they will dispatch the rattlers pretty well.
Yeah, I might have to. I wonder if this is a boom year for rattlesnakes. I'm 35 and I've spent a lot of time outdoors in my life. I could count on the fingers of one hand how many rattlers I've seen untill this last year. I shot the four close to my house, but I've seen a bunch more. Weird....Originally Posted by glenncal1
I have not seen any rattlesnakes but saw a crap ton of garder snakes, oh and Racoons they been in the trash a lot, I think I hear one say something about the hard recession were in thats why they were in the trash but he wont be around to see us pull out of it LOL
have a mouse problem, too?
previous owner of my place left piles of lumber & crap... were like mouse condos (big ones, too)
and then the rattlesnakes came- so I started hunting out the mice... got that under control, and didn't see rattlesnakes for a while...
the mouse traps have been getting tripped quite a bit this year, too... (at least at my place they are)
Yeah if a guy lives out in the country, he's bound to have a rodent problem. I have tons of bull snakes and corn snakes too. Corn snakes aren't supposed to live here, but they do! The bulls and corns are welcome residents as they help hold the mouse and gopher population down. I don't like cats, but I have to admit my wife's two carpet barfers keep the mice out of the house. I cleaned up my scrap pile as I thought the same thing. I keep chicken feed in a steel trash can with a tight fitting lid to keep mice out of that too. I think the problem is the literally thousands of gophers I have. They never come above ground so they're hard to kill. Any ideas?
Don't they Have those stakes you put in the ground and they give off an ultra sonic wave and drives them out?
Those are for vampires dummy.
"There are no finger prints under water."
I've never done this with gophers, but I've done it with moles and if you can do this safely, it works great.
Pour a good amount of gasoline down their hole. If it is a large networked hole, even better. Pour a few gallons down if the hole will hold it. In about a week, most of them will be dead or driven away from the fumes. If that doesn't work, then for round two, pour a few gallons down 3 or 4 holes that are really close and wait about 10 minutes. Then just toss a match down one of their holes (remember fire safety!). Enjoy! If you are really intent on shooting them, then pick them off as they scurry out of their burning and smoking holes.
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