And they wonder how horses break their legs..

[ZacSquatch]

Its cause of these damn gophers.... This sucker weighed 32 pounds on the fish scale...

Horray for the 243...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g155/zac_squatch/32gopher1.jpg

[alex22]

They certianly are ugly little pests. One of my friends uses a compound bow on them to keep them off the property and to get ready for deer season. He says its like a morbid game of wack-a-mole.

I always thought they broke their legs because they are giant animals with toothpick ankles.:looney:

[poorboy_616]

We had Moles at one our clients houses (The family bizz is small Landscaping projects and other odd jobs), I was out mowing one day and felt a thump from under the mower deck.

I just happened to look out at the right time and see the head of a Mole skidding across the grass....

I could only imagine what the Gopher would sound like.....

[jk333]

That 243 must have destroyed that poor bastard. Thats alot of rifle for that little pest, weay to go, Zacsquatch :yelclap:

[ZacSquatch]

Yeah.. fawkin Outdoor life pissed me off..

Columnist said a .243 is only good for coyotes and gophers....

My .243 has more knockdown power on a deer than my damn 30-06... the 30-06 just pokes a hole... .243 with a 85 grain will lay emm down 75% of the time.

[tbburg]

ZacSquatch: In the -06, try a 180gr Barns X. If you don't reload, try the Winchester Black Talon(if they still make it). Either one will do a lot more then punch holes.

[cjsxj87]

I have one of those monster woodchucks in my yard. My dog started barking at it so I just grabbed the pellet rifle thinking it would be small, hell no it was a monster woodchuck sitting there. I think ill take the .17 HMR to it.

[8Mud]

ZacSquatch: In the -06, try a 180gr Barns X. If you don't reload, try the Winchester Black Talon(if they still make it). Either one will do a lot more then punch holes.
A 165 grain Silvertip will mess up a lot of meat.
Are you sure that isn't a Muskrat? They dig holes like a gopher, usually near a stream or creek.

[JNickel101]

I love shooting the silvertips out of my .22-250 - groundhogs in PA are a pest - cow farmers used to pay us when we were kids to shoot them off their pasture land. Now we just do it for fun.

Savage model 12FV. Heavy barrell. Very accurate out to 500+ yards.

Winchester makes "hollow points" for it too :D

[8Mud]

We don't have ground hogs here, but the darned Muskrats will break your leg. I've been walking next to a stream and gone in a hole up to my knee before.
The closest thing we have here is Marmots and they are protected.
I shoot 20-30 Foxes a year here, they are like rats and breed about as fast. The state goes through with helicopters and drops baits twice a year. The baits immunize against rabies and are also birth control pills. Doesn't seem to have thinned the population at all.

[ZacSquatch]

Naw, muskrats look more like wet, mangy ferrets..

[8Mud]

Naw, muskrats look more like wet, mangy ferrets..
With webbed feet.

[ZacSquatch]

And a tendacy to eat out the damn styrofoam blocks that we had under our floating docks and make nests in our pond..... grrr

[8Mud]

Naw, muskrats look more like wet, mangy ferrets..
With webbed feet.

http://i36.tinypic.com/15xmkr6.jpg

[8Mud]

Naw, muskrats look more like wet, mangy ferrets..


http://i36.tinypic.com/2ypbs7s.jpg

[ZacSquatch]

Nvm, these dudes are woodhchucks... and Caddyshack lied to us... that lil furry thing was most deffinetly a woodchuck, not a gopher.

[matt6669]

the farmer by me uses a 338 to shoot the groundhogs by his property, now that is some funny shit to watch.

He also uses the same gun to take down a cow in one shot at killing time as well :)

[Weasel]

That 243 must have destroyed that poor bastard. Thats alot of rifle for that little pest, weay to go, Zacsquatch :yelclap:

We use .243 all the time for varmints, works perfect with a 55grain bullet. Probably the best for it too plus works great on deer and antelope.

Yeah.. fawkin Outdoor life pissed me off..

Columnist said a .243 is only good for coyotes and gophers....

My .243 has more knockdown power on a deer than my damn 30-06... the 30-06 just pokes a hole... .243 with a 85 grain will lay emm down 75% of the time.

Seem to be typical. Seems like the bigger bullet just don't expand enough and often go through the other side. No idea why, .243 works great on deer and antelope plus what ever varmints you run accrossed.


ZacSquatch: In the -06, try a 180gr Barns X. If you don't reload, try the Winchester Black Talon(if they still make it). Either one will do a lot more then punch holes.

Sounds great for a larger animal like a elk but not sure it would work so hot on a deer. I thought the Barnes bullets were made for high penetration through lots of bone and muscle, deer don't exactly have that. But I don't know that much about bullets just what I've picked up here and there.

[Darky]

Gophers caused this too
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/darkXJ/4-Wheeling/DSCF0246.jpg