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A few before and after shots.
His buddy is in the foreground and too the right.
You can see the size of holes they make.
Some were easy pickings.
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Word around the camp fire in my area is that the gophers will be slim shooting this year. Some gopher virus or something
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Very interesting. Seem about normal around here at the moment. My experience is El Nino years are dry springs, which seem to have high populations.
Don't know if breeding is easier when there less rain??
Also find gophers on lower grass stands, predator visibility?
Nothing other than observation to back this up, might be way off...
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03-09-2016, 09:44 PM
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right now I'm just adding them up........best day so far is 111. friend and I got 1800 in a day and a half last summer and will do it again later in the spring.
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You must have some serious land to get that many an day and they just keep coming and 1800 wow that's a lot of shots even 1-1 ratio gets expensive lol
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Just got some 58gr for the .243. Hopefully load some up and hit those gophers!!
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You must have some serious land to get that many an day and they just keep coming and 1800 wow that's a lot of shots even 1-1 ratio gets expensive lol
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most of them are coming off 5 quarters.......it's unreal. I've been getting between 4/5 thousand every summer. there's a quarter that I can really see a reduction in numbers, but as soon as I move, they come back.
when I run out on these 5 quarters, there's farmers calling/offering ammo if i'll come to their place. don't think i'll live long enough to get 'em all! wife says I should start outfitting for them. 
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03-09-2016, 10:37 PM
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most of them are coming off 5 quarters.......it's unreal. I've been getting between 4/5 thousand every summer. there's a quarter that I can really see a reduction in numbers, but as soon as I move, they come back.
when I run out on these 5 quarters, there's farmers calling/offering ammo if i'll come to their place. don't think i'll live long enough to get 'em all! wife says I should start outfitting for them. |
Sounds fun with those kind of numbers I hope your running a 22
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From earlier in the week. Two guys. 4 hours.
1535 +275 = 1810
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I think that number might be a little far fetched.
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I wouldn't think so at all. A group of 8 I was part of spent a 2 day weekend trying to thin out a couple sections, and dispatched on the order of 5000. think of all the members here who do this, and all spring and summer, keeping their fields clean. I suspect the number would probably be much higher if everyone actually participated in this thread.
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03-11-2016, 08:56 AM
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1810 + 100 between the two of us = 1910 . kind of lost count but I think I.m being conservative . real windy but lots out and dumb 
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1910+28=1938
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03-11-2016, 10:44 PM
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I wouldn't think so at all. A group of 8 I was part of spent a 2 day weekend trying to thin out a couple sections, and dispatched on the order of 5000. think of all the members here who do this, and all spring and summer, keeping their fields clean. I suspect the number would probably be much higher if everyone actually participated in this thread.
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1938+8=1946
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1946+27=1973
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1973+18=1991
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I'm jealous. We still have 8" of snow in most places. So how much is a guided gopher hunt these days.
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2211+9=2220
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2221 
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2221 + 71 = 2292
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Went to a ranchers field on the weekend to blow off some work stress... The poor guys pen was literally infested with gophers... I take back what I said about killin too many....
We got 80 confirmed between the 3 of us and barely made a dent.
2330+80 =2410
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2538+30=2568
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2568+12= 2580. Took 12 shots, looking forward to when it only takes 11
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had a few out last week with the mild weather but I think they all went back in to sleep for a while in our neck of the woods, got a darn foot of snow yesterday
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2568+12= 2580. Took 12 shots, looking forward to when it only takes 11 |
2580+475=3055
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Where are y'all finding all these gophers?? I'd love to get out and shoot 10!!
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