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Pocket Gophers Gone Wild
That Rodenator website is too funny! You have to watch the Movies!
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If you have an old lawn mower around that burns oil, wrap a metal shroud around the muffler and duct tape a reducing connector to some garden hose. Jam a section of hose down the hole. Cover a few of the critter access holes with a board. Run the mower with the choke slightly on. Sit back with a shotgun for a while. You may need to do this for a good half hour or hour and may need to move to several locations.
Have fun!!
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I assume you are sure you have Pocket Gophers and not moles. My extensive mole experience is that there is only one true solution. Trap and kill the bastards! I tried all manner of scents, deterrants, sound emitting devices and vibrators. After deciding that I was defeated I looked at the prices folk charge to trap and decided I was going to arm myself with knowledge and some serious ammunition. I bought a series of English Scissors Traps from Mole-Pro (online) I then watched the video they sent which was VERY helpful and began setting traps. I set and inspected traps every evening and over the course of this spring and summer removed 37 moles form my lawn (area of about 2 acres). I know for sure I don't have any now (no mounds - and collapsing subterranian tunnels). It was a big chore and it seemed to go on forever but I got better at placing traps and having success at killing them. I got to the point where I would place a trap and an hour later I had the dead bastard in my hand. Its all about where you place the trap and the technique of setting them. GOOD LUCK
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Scooter; When my parents lived in our small home town after retirement. Dad was well into his 80's by then, and one day I drove in the driveway to find Dad sitting in a lawn chair in the backyard with the double barrel across his lap. I said Dad what in the hell are you doing don't you know shooting a gun in town is illegal. Well, long story short, gophers made him madder than the word "Republican", so he would paitently wait till the ground started to rise, sneak over, "Kaboom", dead gopher allready buryed, I guess he pretended the gopher was a Republican. Nobody ever arrested him, maybe the Mayor was a Republican. Cheers, Frank.
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I can see that elephant sized gophers would be a problem.
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Ha! Good show Tom! Ha!
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Iowa, I don't know what kind of traps you tried that the little critters were able to bury them, the ones we get up here are kind of like an upside down mouse trap, except the flat part is about a 6" x 12" piece of aluminum plate with a hole in it. You place it over the opening and cover the edges with dirt, when the little bugger comes up through the hole he gets it. You either put one on each hole, or cover half and put traps on half, either way, they're gone.
Best of luck.
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Have you ever seen the kind that look like a spring loaded pitch fork?
They push into the ground and straddle the burrow. When the animal goes through, it is triggered and you get a "gopher sickle." I've had decent luck with these in the past.
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Got home last night, had (3) fresh mounds in the flooded area. So, stuck the hose back in the hole and let it run for another 2-hours.
Woke up this morning, found another (3) fresh mounds in an area, about 100ft away from the flooded area. This is where I tried the smoke bombs. I though for a couple of days the smoke worked, since there had not been any new activity ... until now.
It seams the more I do, the more agitated, and active they become. But, unfortunately not agitated enough to just plain leave.
The “Rodenator”, got to love it, brings back even more visions of “Caddy Shack”. How’s that tune go? Something like: “Great big gobs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts...” 
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Scooter; Have you considered green cement for the whole yard? No lawn mower to keep running, no more gophers, life is great. Frank.
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