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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 296438" data-attributes="member: 6535"><p>All in and around our food plots (they love weeds like clover) ...so yes, a fairly small area of a few acres. When some move in, I place the traps and in a matter of a day...maybe two, they are all dead. Mostly this is in the spring and the fall.</p><p>Some years are worse than others but they are pretty easy to eliminate with these things. The trap shown up the page in post #7 is actually for moles. It will not be effective with pocket gophers. The ones I use are the Victor Pincher trap. I buy mine at TSC but I'm sure they have them in many places. You use two per tunnel and make sure you have them staked down or your trap will disappear with your caught gopher.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p>You'd be surprised...one male gopher can run 200 yards of tunnels. You can tell a male from a female by the mound arrangement too. Males run pretty much a straight line of mounds. Females run tunnels with more branches and give the appearance of several runs when in reality it is still one gopher, or one gopher and her young. I've trapped six out of one run before but it was a mamma and all of her babies.</p><p></p><p>The bad thing is, once you trap them all out it often doesn't take long for another gopher to move it to a set of vacant tunnels that go through a good food source. I've heard that they can decrease the yield on an alfalfa crop by more than 10% because they absolutely love alfalfa. If you are living anywhere near an alfalfa crop you can pretty much always expect a fresh supply of wandering gophers to come your way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty, post: 296438, member: 6535"] All in and around our food plots (they love weeds like clover) ...so yes, a fairly small area of a few acres. When some move in, I place the traps and in a matter of a day...maybe two, they are all dead. Mostly this is in the spring and the fall. Some years are worse than others but they are pretty easy to eliminate with these things. The trap shown up the page in post #7 is actually for moles. It will not be effective with pocket gophers. The ones I use are the Victor Pincher trap. I buy mine at TSC but I'm sure they have them in many places. You use two per tunnel and make sure you have them staked down or your trap will disappear with your caught gopher. [COLOR=silver][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] You'd be surprised...one male gopher can run 200 yards of tunnels. You can tell a male from a female by the mound arrangement too. Males run pretty much a straight line of mounds. Females run tunnels with more branches and give the appearance of several runs when in reality it is still one gopher, or one gopher and her young. I've trapped six out of one run before but it was a mamma and all of her babies. The bad thing is, once you trap them all out it often doesn't take long for another gopher to move it to a set of vacant tunnels that go through a good food source. I've heard that they can decrease the yield on an alfalfa crop by more than 10% because they absolutely love alfalfa. If you are living anywhere near an alfalfa crop you can pretty much always expect a fresh supply of wandering gophers to come your way. [/QUOTE]
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