Black gophers!!!!

[Redfrog]

Thanks to silverdoctor for the help getting these pcs uploaded. I got an email from another AO member with these pics included. Very cool.He asked me to post them.

Don't ask where the pics were taken, cuase I don't know and don't want to know and won't tell if I did know, so there.:snapoutofit:

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[fishtank]

"oily" the alberta gopher :sHa_shakeshout: , post that picture on facebook and mention that it live next to a pipeline . The environmentalist folks will have a field day like the Spielberg triceratops photo:sHa_sarcasticlol:

[3blade]

Sigh.....who let Redfrog play with spray paint again??

[bakerman]

Iv'e seen a few of those before, very cool. I wouldn't shoot any of them so the land owner went and poisned them. Maybe a few survived, now I'll have to go see.

[Kauna]

"oily" the alberta gopher :sHa_shakeshout: , post that picture on facebook and mention that it live next to a pipeline . The environmentalist folks will have a field day like the Spielberg triceratops photo:sHa_sarcasticlol:

good one ...lol

[Reeves1]

"oily" the alberta gopher :sHa_shakeshout: , post that picture on facebook and mention that it live next to a pipeline . The environmentalist folks will have a field day like the Spielberg triceratops photo:sHa_sarcasticlol:

Give it wash with Dawn & then post a picture of an Albino ones :sHa_sarcasticlol:

[saddleup]

Photo shopped .................lol

[roger]

Photo shopped .................lol

ummmm no.

they are melonistic which is opposite of albino.
seen a few myself, kind of weird seeing them for the first time. they die the same....

[Lefty-Canuck]

This is on a mount at a friends bow shop

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LC

[roger]

do you have any more pics of the bases and such lefty?

[pickrel pat]

Wonder if survival rate is lower than normal coloured ones.... I'll say yes.

[Redfrog]

Well it isn't photoshopped. It took me 4 days and a lot of help from the frog posse to get the pics posted.:sHa_shakeshout:

Thanks guys.....You're the best.:):love0025:

I will post it on facebook :sHa_shakeshout: with breaking news of the oil spill and the request for volunteers to help clean the pelts of the ones we catch.

[pickrel pat]

volunteers to help clean the pelts of the ones we shoot.

Fixed it for ya.

[albertadeer]

The albino raven I saw was much more impressive. But any color phase is way cool!

[silverdoctor]

I will post it on facebook :sHa_shakeshout: with breaking news of the oil spill and the request for volunteers to help clean the pelts of the ones we catch.

Oh my, you'll catch millions :sHa_shakeshout:

[coy coyote]

Glad there's still some around. Had a nice batch of them around here. Trapped one and took it to the gun shop in stettler. Ken can verify that's its real. Still a few unbelievers though. Lol

[greylynx]

Well it isn't photoshopped. It took me 4 days and a lot of help from the frog posse to get the pics posted.:sHa_shakeshout:

Thanks guys.....You're the best.:):love0025:

I will post it on facebook :sHa_shakeshout: with breaking news of the oil spill and the request for volunteers to help clean the pelts of the ones we catch.

Redfrog Redfrog What do I do? It is avian botulism season in central Alberta.

How can we paint all these dead birds with black before the CBC and CTV come by to blame the deaths on the oil industry?

Saaaay you have one those big compressors in your shop......:)

Mine was stolen.

[Cement Bench]

ALABAMA

Cement Bench

[roper1]

Way cool. I have an albino one mounted. I was shooting the hornet & Hunny was shooting her T-bolt. I'm coaching her gut-shoot him after all these years of coaching & demonstrating head shots. Scared a head shot even w Stingers might not get to taxidermist but it all worked out. I'd like to find a black one to offset ole Whitey.

[Dewey Cox]

The albino raven I saw was much more impressive. But any color phase is way cool!

That was a seagull. ;)

[waterninja]

pretty neat pics. thanks for sharing.

[Thinlizzy]

pretty neat pics. thanks for sharing.

X2!

[justyce79]

Found outside of Red Willow!
Sorry for the crappy quality, he was far away.

[Grizzly Adams]

Photo shopped .................lol

Melanistic phase ? Opposite of Albino. Sorry, didn't recognize this thread goes back to 2014. :lol:

Grizz

[Dean2]

That is very cool. I have shot literally tens of thousands of gophers and I have never seen a Black or an Albino one. I don't think I would shoot one if I did see it but I would certainly try to get some good pictures of them. The ones you posted are pretty good quality. Thanks for sharing.

If you want to email me a couple of those pictures I will upload them for you without the stupid Photobucket banner messing up the photo. I love the idea of posting it on AZZbook as "Oily" the Alberta Tar sands Gopher.:)

[The Cook]

Bgm

[Twisted Canuck]

Bgm

Or, BGLM.....yep. Now there is gonna be a march and rioting, maybe Viking or Stettler gets burned down, gonna loot the local Co-op and steal all the Carhart stuff.....and all because some white farmer shot a black gopher. I can see it. Racist farmers.

[Stinky Coyote]

That was a seagull. ;)

Lmao...good ole beach eagles

[trigger7mm]

Many years ago we shot 3 of them in a pasture north of Tofield. Black as the ace of spades.

[waldedw]

don't shoot it, the rest of the gophers will start a Black Gophers Matter chapter and have a demonstration :) the PETA groups will go crazy :sHa_shakeshout:

[djwf69]

Maybe just a tan with all the sun we have had.

[Dean2]

You guys really are quick, and funny too. The oil spill gopher thing occured to .e right off but the whole BLM thing never even occured to me or the riffs on that theme. Gave me a good laugh. Thanks.

[Spidey]

Bgm

Well played! :)

BTW - when did Waterninja get banned?

[Redfrog]

Old post. seems like more than Waterninja banned.:thinking-006:

[dgrimard]

Grand father had one as a pet back in the late 80's, caught in a live trap and took him home. I won't say where. ahhahah he tamed up pretty good and you could pet him in his cage until he had enough then he would crawl back into his nest.

[TrapperMike]

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[TrapperMike]

I have had albinos as pets for years. Have always wanted a couple of the black ones. If you could let me know where I could catch a couple could you please pm me. Thanks

[Bushleague]

Grand father had one as a pet back in the late 80's, caught in a live trap and took him home. I won't say where. ahhahah he tamed up pretty good and you could pet him in his cage until he had enough then he would crawl back into his nest.

Lol, when I was about 12 I decided to keep a gopher for a pet. The first one didn't go very well, I was riding home on my bike with it dangling from my bale twine snare. Unfortunately he swung into the spokes of my front wheel, I went over the handlebars and got a little skinned up but the poor gopher definitely got the worst of it.

The second one made it home, but succeeded in escaping from his cage somehow. He proceded to successfully hide in the nooks and crannies of the house for several days, whistling frequently, which was eventually his undoing. After that one my mother nixed the whole project.

[W921]

Lol, when I was about 12 I decided to keep a gopher for a pet. The first one didn't go very well, I was riding home on my bike with it dangling from my bale twine snare. Unfortunately he swung into the spokes of my front wheel, I went over the handlebars and got a little skinned up but the poor gopher definitely got the worst of it.

The second one made it home, but succeeded in escaping from his cage somehow. He proceded to successfully hide in the nooks and crannies of the house for several days, whistling frequently, which was eventually his undoing. After that one my mother nixed the whole project.

Haha this whole thread is funny but I really liked your story. Hey at least it wasn't a snake. I brought the biggest snaske I ever found home. It escaped in the house. I was not very popular for a while.

[bubba300]

I've seen the black ones before,probably around 1985,seen a few of them one year and never again,west of Olds.

[Grizzly Adams]

I've seen the black ones before,probably around 1985,seen a few of them one year and never again,west of Olds.

The Gopher Museum in Torrington would probably appreciate a specimen. :lol:

Grizz

[gazin16]

Have pics of one in elk point

[gunluvr]

BGLDM (black gopher lives don't matter)

[thumper]

There once was a small population of black Columbian ground squirrels in Jasper National Park, near the Icefield Parkway. The last time I checked (about 25 years ago) there were still a couple mixed in with the normal coloured ones.

[Faststeel]

BGLDM (black gopher lives don't matter)

Perfect