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Posted: 5/8/2018 11:06:56 PM EDT
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OP, you have all the openings spotted?
It would be bad to have one pop up right in back of you all pissed off and threatened. Maybe have someone watching your 6 ... |
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Posted: 5/8/2018 11:14:38 PM EDT
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No experience with snake dens. Where we hunt, we have LOTS of cottonmouths. I don't fuck with them at all...AT ALL. When I see them, they get #7 1/2 birdshot. I am usually in waders...and I hope the boots, covered by 1000 denier are enough to stop one in the event I don't see one.
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Posted: 5/8/2018 11:15:33 PM EDT
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Birdshot? |
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Posted: 5/8/2018 11:16:50 PM EDT
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How about a stick to whack them in the head? Ammo be spendy. |
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Posted: 5/8/2018 11:43:26 PM EDT
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Get a whole sled dog team worth of Rikki Tikki Tavi’s, that will sort them out quick!
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:07:11 AM EDT
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I'd like to try a couple of cans of Great Stuff foam sealer sprayed in there. That nasty stuff is so sticky, it would surely glue them all into one big block of assholes. |
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:12:01 AM EDT
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M80? |
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:25:48 AM EDT
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Friend of mine got rid of gophers one by pumping 5 gallons of propane into the hole then igniting it. Sure messed up his yard. He didn't do things halfway.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 1:48:25 AM EDT
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Lots of dry ice, then seal up the holes. All these people talking about gas are on some Wiley Coyote stuff.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 2:05:25 AM EDT
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That stuff is for candyasses. The good shit is Napalm-B. I know it’s 50% polystrene, 25% low-octane gasoline, and 25% benzene. Anyone know if those proportions are by weight or volume? 
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Posted: 5/9/2018 2:09:41 AM EDT
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honeybadger
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Posted: 5/9/2018 2:12:33 AM EDT
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I was at a box store today looking for stump killer. I did find some Snake Repellant. Actually had a picture of a rattlesnake on the label. OP should try it and report back.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 11:50:04 AM EDT
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Thanks for all of the replies folks, as usual I spent a lot of time laughing.
As fire and explosives are out of the question, I am leaning toward the poisonous gas / exhaust / dry ice suffocation route. I do want some kind of visual indicator (gopher smoke bomb or other as well) to show possible hidden escape routes. One of my goals would be to dig up the nest afterward to confirm how large it was, and to send a bucket of dead rattlesnakes to someone to make ME a belt and hatband, so cement or foam is out. This is my brothers place and he will make any decisions, I just want to provide options. I'll update the thread when there is something to report. I can see him calling a herpterminator.. 
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:02:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You don't really want a bunch of burning snakes taking off through the grass though. Or maybe you do.  I was part of setting a rats nest on fire once. The nest was under a chicken coop. We predicted lots of attempted escapees and had multiple unplugged shotguns ready. It was entertaining for about 2 minutes. High stakes too, a flaming rat could set damn near anything on fire depending on where it sought shelter. |
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:12:33 PM EDT
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Hire an exterminator. Rattlers are no joke. Y
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:12:46 PM EDT
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Friend of mine got rid of gophers one by pumping 5 gallons of propane into the hole then igniting it. Sure messed up his yard. He didn't do things halfway. |
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:13:59 PM EDT
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Birdshot? Quote History |
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:26:40 PM EDT
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Tag for hilarity.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 12:33:44 PM EDT
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Another idea I support is a bunch of King Snakes.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 1:20:04 PM EDT
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Use diesel not gasoline. Diesel is safer will burn just as hot and longer. You just need to get it lite. Anyone who is advocating gasoline is a fool and has never burned anything out of a small space or tunnel.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 11:02:55 PM EDT
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I can see him calling a herpterminator. DO NOT let us down OP!!! |
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Posted: 5/9/2018 11:05:48 PM EDT
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When my Grandpa was a game Biologist for the State of Oregon, he used dynamite to remove rattle snake dens. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 12:27:15 PM EDT
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Any updates on this @JoseCuervo ?
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Posted: 5/12/2018 12:35:51 PM EDT
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Gather them up
Find the most liberal neighborhood or business around Release Observe Laugh as the liberals pet the pretty snakes |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 12:35:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2018 12:54:52 PM EDT
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Any updates on this @JoseCuervo ?  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 1:22:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2018 1:29:47 PM EDT
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Lots of posts for gas, maybe kick it up a bit. Bleach and ammonia bomb. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 1:34:36 PM EDT
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If money wasn't a terribly great object I think I'd use one of those propane powered gopher eradicators.
If at first you don't succeed, blow up the holes until they collapse.
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Posted: 5/12/2018 1:36:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy shit. Even in California. They made the papers around the late 90s with news of the orchards hiring a guy that would go around spraying gas into squirrel tunnels and igniting it. I was trying tk get hired on with the guy after I read the article. But there were so many calls the guy's shields went to red alert. Topic comes up occassionally ever 5--6 years. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 1:45:15 PM EDT
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Bangalore torpedo.
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Posted: 5/12/2018 2:42:29 PM EDT
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Just build a nice charcoal fire on the opening with a small bag of Kingsford.
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Posted: 5/12/2018 2:58:16 PM EDT
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Just youtube search "rattlesnake den"
 Gasoline and a match, or a shovel to cut heads off as they slither out. Snakes make my skin crawl 
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Posted: 5/12/2018 3:19:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not really. Here is how the texts went.. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/79749/C11D9B33-7696-4B25-B20D-8DADA3886F2B-541823.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/79749/96661952-724E-4341-BD69-B2542D61D784-541824.JPG And that's when I would drop the subject and walk away. You tried. Not your problem. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 4:38:25 PM EDT
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Gasoline.
Have your shotgun or shotshells in your handgun ready. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 5:22:33 PM EDT
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If you don't know the size of the air space in the den, don't use gasoline if you're going to light it.
One cup of gasoline evaporated into a cubic foot of air is equal to about four sticks of dynamite. |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 5:23:13 PM EDT
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I definitely like the CO/CO2 and tarp ideas.
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Posted: 5/13/2018 1:16:13 PM EDT
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One cup of gasoline evaporated into a cubic foot of air is equal to about four sticks of dynamite. Exploding gasoline is a deflagration. An extremely fast burning event. A deflagration is subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer. Deflagration is different from detonation, which propagates supersonically through shock waves. Dynamite must have a shockwave to propagate through it initiating detonation. The effects of a burning explosive such as black powder, or confined gas fumes are not equivalent to a detonation, even if appearing to be the same size to the senses. |
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Posted: 5/13/2018 1:26:09 PM EDT
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Deploy your Mongoose.
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Posted: 5/13/2018 1:42:25 PM EDT
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Your best bet is to contact local game wardens and let them handle it. You start pouring gasoline into a hole there is no telling what will happen.
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Posted: 5/13/2018 1:56:26 PM EDT
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Serious question, why not just buy a dozen king snakes?
No explosions or CA environmental problems, native species, etc |
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Posted: 5/13/2018 1:58:37 PM EDT
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To the folks advocating gasoline then lighting it off...
several years ago a huge cockroach ran across the garage floor, ducked into the drain. I lifted the grate & was greeted by a swarm of cockroaches. So I did the first thing at hand: a quart of lacquer thinner down the drain, followed by a match. WHOOMP! Blew the other floor drain cover in the air a bit. Be careful doing stuff like that. Lacquer thinner is a higher volatility than gasoline, but less octane (thank goodness)! |
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:00:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:14:56 PM EDT
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Buy a half dozen mongooses. Mongeese?
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:16:56 PM EDT
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I'd probably just go to my local pool supply store and buy several jugs of liquid chlorine and pour them into the den.
NOTHING survives a heavy dose of chlorine. NOTHING. It's also a very quiet method. But you will probably want to take extra precautions so you don't gas YOURSELF in the process. Know anybody who you can borrow an air tank and respirator from for a little while? Diver? Fireman? You could run with this concept and go fully satanic and dump battery acid in there, instead. Get several boxes of battery acid from your local auto parts store and get busy. Eventually the acid will all be neutralized. Eventually. |
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:26:26 PM EDT
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Buy a half dozen mongooses. Mongeese? 1 mongoose. I bought 5 mongoose. Looks right to me. 
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:28:12 PM EDT
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I think it's like moose. The singular is the same as the plural. 1 mongoose. I bought 5 mongoose. Looks right to me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Buy a half dozen mongooses. Mongeese? 1 mongoose. I bought 5 mongoose. Looks right to me. 
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Posted: 5/13/2018 2:40:51 PM EDT
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It's coming right for us!
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Posted: 5/13/2018 8:29:57 PM EDT
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A bunch of crushed dry ice and something to stuff on the hole. Won't take long to suffocate them.
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Posted: 5/13/2018 8:30:43 PM EDT
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WRONG! I wish ppl would stop the fear mongering with explosions. Exploding gasoline is a deflagration. An extremely fast burning event. A deflagration is subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer. Deflagration is different from detonation, which propagates supersonically through shock waves. Dynamite must have a shockwave to propagate through it initiating detonation. The effects of a burning explosive such as black powder, or confined gas fumes are not equivalent to a detonation, even if appearing to be the same size to the senses. Crawl in there with the snakes afterward and ask them if they could tell the difference. |
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