Dakrats?

[Zogman]

Sounds like no one wants to hunt these. I hear they are really tasty.

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2025/08/01/dakrat-populations-continue-boom-north-dakota/?outputType=amp

 

[KDM]

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.

 

[LBrandt]

I get a few that try to move in every spring but between me and my 22 mag and lab that hates them they don't last long. LB

 

[NDSportsman]

Used to kill hundreds a year. Had a couple pastures that were loaded with them and we'd even hunt them with bow and arrow. Was tons of fun!

 

[SurvivalAmazon88]

Sounds like no one wants to hunt these. I hear they are really tasty.

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2025/08/01/dakrat-populations-continue-boom-north-dakota/?outputType=amp

those stupid little shits wreck the dirt around my house every year. Last couple times I popped them with the air rifle and shoved their bodies back in the holes to warn off the others. Seems to help.

 

[Tikka280ai]

Have them invading a pasture bad this spring/summer. Been giving them hell with a suppressed 300blk its very satisfying watching them pop like a zit!

 

[guywhofishes]

I like watching their antics while waiting for my pizza flying at McDowell's Big Boy.

Also, dakrats is a stupid name. Who came up with that nonsense? I swear we get dumber every day.

 

[NDSportsman]

Never heard them called dakrats. We just called em gophers.

 

[LBrandt]

If they have a large fluffy tail they are ground squirrels. LB

 

[Tymurrey]

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.

 

[guywhofishes]

with the extenisve loss of pasture I was sorta worried they'd be a thing of the past in ND soon

like geese, ducks and other critters, they're adapting to urban landscape

good on them little buggers says I

 

[ndlongshot]

Am I the only one who thought, WTF is a dakrat? Thats a new one that nobody asked to confirm, especially a biologist. Sounds made up from an out of stater.

 

[guywhofishes]

Am I the only one who thought, WTF is a dakrat? Thats a new one that nobody asked to confirm, especially a biologist. Sounds made up from an outright retard.

FIFY

 

[deleted user]

I’ve never heard them called that. Richardson ground squirrels, flickertails, gopher, even (incorrectly) prairie dog. But never dakrat.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

We got pocket gophers and the striped gophers but not those things thankfully.

 

[tikkalover]

those stupid little shits wreck the dirt around my house every year. Last couple times I popped them with the air rifle and shoved their bodies back in the holes to warn off the others. Seems to help.

That’s kind of morbid

 

[Zogman]

hose stupid little shits wreck the dirt around my house every year. Last couple times I popped them with the air rifle and shoved their bodies back in the holes to warn off the others. Seems to help.That’s kind of morbid
Not to me. I like it!

 

[SurvivalAmazon88]

That’s kind of morbid

Old school like the spanish inquisition but hey, it helps.

 

[Prairie Doggin']

They were everywhere in the 80s. Pastures full of them. Fun shooting when I was a kid.

 

[Allen]

Am I the only one who thought, WTF is a dakrat? Thats a new one that nobody asked to confirm, especially a biologist. Sounds made up from an out of stater.

Sounds something like one would read on the Bakken Fails pages.