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Just wondering if anyone else hunts gophers with their trad bow? I used to shoot them with a .22, than last year I got a compound and shot htem with that. This spring I got a old Bear Grizzly recurve, 58", 52@28", I think it was built in "66. I've started taking it out after gophers, and I tell ya this is so much fun it should be ilegal. Only problem I've has is that I can't find blunts or proper points in anything over 125 gr. The rubber blunts are not effectivein dropping them dead unless head shot. I've started making my own points using all manner or things like hex nuts with spike's, homemade broadheads, anything to try to make an effective head. What do you small game hunters use that flies well and hits hard?
Posts: 27 | From: Vegreville,Alberta | Registered: Jan 2008
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i dont know how well they will work for you but i have shot squrriels with g5 small game heads they are kinda sharp and you can sharpen them more they are a little pricey but they hold up good it took me the third time i hit a tree with them to break one of the tips off
-------------------- every mourn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight-wiston churchhill Posts: 260 | From: pacific,missouri | Registered: Apr 2008
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The original golf. It is a ton of fun. You can get steel blunts in weights up to 160 grns from most trad suppliers and Ace makes a hex blunt up to 200 grns. There are also blunts with small blades like Magnus and tigerclaw, but plain steel ones work great on gophers.
Here's a link to blunts at 3 Rivers (site sponsor).
-------------------- "Being there was good enough..." Charlie Lamb reflecting on a hunt TGMM Brotherhood of the Bow Posts: 9537 | From: Ranger, GA | Registered: Mar 2003
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My all time favorite ground squirrel head is the HTM rubber blunt. Really puts the "smack down" on ground squirrels.
Regular steel blunts, Ace Hex blunts, Judo's, and the Magnus blunt all work as well... just depends on how much energy your bow and arrow combo delivers.
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"And we call this one the gopher opener"....
-------------------- "Being there was good enough..." Charlie Lamb reflecting on a hunt TGMM Brotherhood of the Bow Posts: 9537 | From: Ranger, GA | Registered: Mar 2003
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Used to back in the 60s and 70's. Alot of fun and good practice. May have to try it again.Hard finding a place to hunt anymore. We used to hunt the Universitys land and the golf courses. They won't let us do it anymore.
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I love hunting gophers, probably shot a couple hundred with trad gear over the years. I've missed out the last couple years, I work too far north for gopher habitat. Hopefully I can find a few before I leave for the lodge next week. Judos have always worked well for me, in high school when I was broke I used fieldpoints with washers behind them.
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Excellent, more then I expected. People definitley do slow down and give you some strange looks, but that's fine. I don't eat them, don't know of anyone who does, though I've heard tht people have done it. Can't be much meat on the little buggers.
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i eat what i kill if its not to big the bigger they get the tougher they are i've been using barta blunts theyre about 150gr ill let you know how they do when i actually connect and im hunting ground hawgs not ground squirels
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Tracey "TREE" Trickett 2 Pricly curves 3pc & pricly ash longbow won @ Great Ohio Rabbit Hunt Posts: 1213 | From: central ohio, thurston | Registered: Jan 2008
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