I am from the Red Deer area and I am looking for a place to shoot gophers.
I am 26 and a responsible shooter, if you have gophers that need to be taken care of, or know some where I can go shoot around central Alberta it would be much obliged.
Hey GI-J - just hit the dirt roads, drive til you spot gophers then go ask - it was that simple for me this year.
And there's no better practice for a rifleman - estimating ranges, bullet drop, field positions, wind drift, small targets - gopher whacking has it all in spades!
If the grass gets to high or thick from all the rain you can use a bigger caliber to bust through the grass if the land owner will allow it and it is safe to do so. you may get more ricochet if you are not using the right type of bullet. Try to stay away from boat tails. Use a highly fragmentable flat base bullet for less ricochet.
High velocity in a hornady V-max does the job for me in these conditions. I normally use a .204 Ruger with 30-32 gr bullets, but when grass gets long and thick I switch to a 243 win and 58 gr hornady V-max bullets. 22-250 with 55 gr would probably work just as well maybe better.
I started using a .22 for close range and .17hmr past about 65yds - but the .22 was ricocheting. But those .17hmr bullets (17gr V-Max) just disintegrate when they hit anything - so no harmful whizzing bullets!
Alberta gopher hunting.
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