Dakrats?

[Fallguy]

Dakrat is what the military people call them. They come here and see them and never saw them until they came here so they call them that. Richardsons Ground Squirrel is the "official" common name. Flickertail is another "common" name due to their tail twitch behavior. Gopher is wrong. Look at the MN Gopher mascot and tell me what's wrong with the picture.

 

[PrairieGhost]

I have a couple different ground squirrels that have hung around our farm for a few years now. They are different than the ground squirrels/gophers we used to shoot all over the pastures with the big mounds but they look real close to them. These don't make real big mounds usually it seems and don't seem to bother much. I tend to just leave them be unless they make home in the garden. Went 25 years never seeing one around home to now we have a resident population.

Im sure those are Franklin ground squirrels.

Back in the 1950s our neighbor had a pasture next to his field. When he planted wheat those Richardsons would wipe out the first 100 ft. Another neighbor had about 5000 turkeys. He had huge feeders and I would hide in them and shoot Richardsons. You could go through a brick of 22 in a day at one feeder. If you were lucky a fox or badger. would come in about sunset looking for a turkey dinner.
When using a bow those old recurve were not very fast. As close as 15 yards many still ducked an arrow.

 

[Allen]

If they are in the yard, a hose or 5 gallon bucket of water will flush them out for a person to do whatever they choose to do the deed with. Dakrat is just more proof Idiocracy is a documentary not a comedy.

I have a small resident population of the common gophers in my yard. Shooting them is about the only thing they are good for, IMHO. Trying to fill their holes with water on my pile of sand just recharges the local aquifer. I've left a hose in a hole a few times here, and all it did was raise my water bill.

 

[Rut2much]

Look at the MN Gopher mascot and tell me what's wrong with the picture.

Everything, just like their license plates and new Somali flag (just razzin ya, well kinda)

 

[Shockwave]

I shoot them whenever possible.

 

[Fallguy]

Everything, just like their license plates and new Somali flag (just razzin ya, well kinda)

I think the new flag looks awesome. They should change our shitty ND one.

 

[NDSportsman]

I think the new flag looks awesome. They should change our shitty ND one.

Are you serious? F that, I'll take ND's flag over that new MN pos everyday and twice on days ending in y!

 

[risingsun]

Derailed, just had to.

 

[Rut2much]

I think the new flag looks awesome. They should change our shitty one

I mean you are right on the border, just sayin..
Its a pride thing and not the kind.

 

[guywhofishes]

I think the new flag looks awesome. They should change our shitty ND one.

 

[Fallguy]

Are you serious? F that, I'll take ND's flag over that new MN pos everyday and twice on days ending in y!

Yeah I'm serious. Our current and old MN flags: blue with some detailed pictures that you need to sit down and study and Latin that the average person won't even attempt to pronounce. New MN one: 3 simple colors with a simple design. When the wind is blowing it makes a geometric shape of the state in the sky. Think about Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado flag designs. You can make that any part of a hat, shirt, sticker. The ND flag? Wow...quite...showy? What country flags do you recognize from the Olympics for example? Germany, Japan, Norway, Brazil. Simple desings.

 

[Jiffy]

We should have a posted sign for a flag….

 

[Rut2much]

We should have a posted sign for a flag….

^^THIS

 

[Rut2much]

What country flags do you recognize from the Olympics for example? Germany, Japan, Norway, Brazil. Simple desings.

A shit ton but depends who you're asking I suppose.
We will agree to disagree on that hideous flag that looks like it should be on a tampon box which in all reality makes perfect sense.

In other news, I need to go pick up my new blacked out license plates

 

[Zogman]

, I need to go pick up my new blacked out license plates

If you would be so kind please explain to me why we (ND) need/want the blacked out plates.
Thank you in advance

 

[double account removed]

We should have a posted sign for a flag….

or

would suit us just fine

 

[Rut2much]

If you would be so kind please explain to me why we (ND) need/want the blacked out plates.
Thank you in advance

Merica.
Just personal preference and matches the theme. Ive spent 25 Washington's much more foolishly with nothing to show.

 

[riverview]

i had a friend with a pasture full of flickertail's, very fun to sit and shoot for hours

 

[Prairie Doggin']

i had a friend with a pasture full of flickertail's, very fun to sit and shoot for hours

I had a similar situation probably 8 years back (probably longer, when I think about it). Friends pasture overrun with them. Brought out a 17 HMR, he had a 22lr. After witnessing the hmr, he knew he needed one. Older guy, so I told him exactly what he wanted. Wrote down model number, sent him to Fleet Farm, told him exactly what it would cost. He came back with one of the early Savage bmag 17WSM rifles - absolute garbage in their infancy.

 

[svnmag]

I do. I don't mind the stripped gophers (13 lined ground squirrels) as they only punch a small hole in the yard and don't eat the grass to the dirt. However, these buggers leave a mound that bounce me and the mower around more than a little and patches of totally eaten grass. They gots ta go!! I treat them like pocket gophers. See'em.....get rid of'em.

I left them alone in the yard for a few years: Mistake.

I got home one morning and the yard was crawling. It took about a week to unfuck the situation.

If zeroed @50 w/stdv; you should be "good" @25. These may require some tweaking for absolute. IME, they group well. They sound like a "finger snap" from a bolt gun but a ricochet sounds like its from "Gun Smoke": Know your backstop:

GG is on Jimmy Fallon in about thirty seconds. That is all.