Who hunts gophers

[Over&Under]

Great pic Charlie!!!!!

[Shawn Leonard]

Ya are not gonna kill or gophers that we have with anything but a broadhead, mabe a headshot with a hex head or something but a big boar around here will go 15-20#s, most are 8-12#s though. I have lung shot them and still make it to the hole from 15 yards away. Never hunted prairie dogs or ground squirrels. In the east we have woodchucks, groundhogs or gophers. All the same thing just different names. Killed hundreds with the .17 Rem over the years. The way farmers have gone so have the chucks, few and far between anymore! Great pics. Charlie!! Shawn

[Walt Francis]

JC,
The first day was shooting the gophers mentioned above the rancher pulled up in his tractor and spent an hour eating lunch watching me; I think he had more fun watching me the then I did hunting them.

Charlie, The rancher is still a good friend and lets me hunt the gophers when ever I want.  We have been through four poisoning cycles since that first hunt in 1991.

Shawn,  
We have three distinct species here, the ground squirrel, prairie dog, and the marmot,  We call these gophers, but I think they are actually ground squirrels.  They are a lot smaller then a woodchuck.  For reference, they are smaller then the tree squirrels I saw while hunting in Illinois last fall.  We do have what is commonly call rock-chucks or marmots that are best hunted with broadheads, but they are a completely different critter.  Hunting them is more like hunting spring bears then squirrels and they are tough to  stop with an arrow before they make it to their holes.  From what I have read they are a little bigger then the eastern woodchuck.  The prairie dogs that reside in parts of Montana and Wyoming are those mentioned in many of the books written by trappers and settlers in the 1800’s and are about 25% the size of a rock-chuck and twice the size of a gopher.

[Inhimwelive]

I'm from Ny and never heard anyone call a woodchuck a gopher..Must be the city folk.;^)

[Joseph]

Judos kill them real good also, best target practice there is!              Joseph

[Lin Rhea]

This what we call gophers here. It's a Pocket Gopher. Curtis got his one with a head shot. They're not so big, but fun to hunt. Lin