Posted: 10/14/2005 3:28:39 PM EDT
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So yesterday I notice the grass is heaving along the fenceline. Today I come home from work and the heaving is all the way around the house along the concrete foundation, so to make my self feel better, I hurl a pitchfork into the line in random places to hopefully kill it, I doubt this will work. I am about to go to war, any suggestions? Carl Spackler: License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior firepower and superior intelligence. And that's all she wrote.  
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I have done a fair amount of research on this. If you are in the city where there is not such a large community of moles, Gopher Gassers do a pretty good job. If you are in the country like I am, where animals that live in the ground are in abundant supply, then you have two options. The first is to dig a trench completely around your property, eight feet deep to be safe. Fill it with concrete reinforced with 1/4 or 1/2 inch wire grid. Then build a fence of wire up at least two or three feet off the ground. Seal the property entirely this way and then start from the center, working out to the edges, systematically killing them with gassers, poison, and traps. The second option is underground nuclear weapons. These will provide temporary relief. |
traps are about the only thing that works |
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In Caddyshack he was hunting gophers, not moles. Gophers require gassing, pretty much. That is, if you can't/don't want to stake out the area and shoot them one by one. Which is entertaining in a certain way but not always practical. ------- The spring-traps are about the easiest/fastest thing that really works, that I have heard. . . . -And there's other stuff you can do that is a lot more expensive and takes a lot longer and peaceably drives the moles off elsewhere, but (aside from the other drawbacks already mentioned) it hardly delights one's neighbors. ~ |
That rodentator pro looks like the propane gun of dead , but a little steep to purchase right now.I have collapsed the tunnels and will be patrolling tonight with a surefire and a BKT7 field knife looking for movement. If I see any movement, I will strike swiftly with maximum violence of action.  ETA: I didn't see shit. back to the drawing board. |
+1 the harpoon type traps do a good job of reducing the mole population. Poison peanuts don't work at all. I have done a good bit of research on the issue, and the traps are the best altenative. Moles really arent like rats, they only have 1-2 offspring per year. The traps do a good job of controlling them. |
The surface tracks just showed up yesterday, it doesn't seem like it can get directly under the surface of the centipede grass, it's too dense. this mole has traveled hundreds of linear feet in the last 36 hours , all along the foundation, almost all the way around the house, under a concrete walkway, along a fenceline where the grass is less dense. Maybe it's just passing thru? If the tunnels come back he gets this.
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| If you have a mole problem, you also have a grubworm problem. Moles eat grubs. Kill grubs- no moles. Short term you can douse your yard with Sevin. Better longterm solution is a biological control you broadcast on your yard. Grubs get sick, die and release spores that kill more gurbs. The spores then hang out for a few years. you have to reapply every 3 or four years. But it's fairly cheap and non toxic to everything but grubs. |
TALPIRID is NOT available in North Carolina, Alaska or Hawaii. |
| Back home I have a LEO friend who had a mole problem a few years ago. He came home from work and saw one digging in the back yard. He went inside, got a PT-92, and shot twice into the ground where the mole was. This was basiclly BFE, so I dont think it bothered anyone, except the mole. Mole 0 - LEO 1. |
| I've gotten 6-8 out of my yard this summer, and at least 10 out of the neighbors. Best luck I've had is to do some hunting ... smash down all the runs you can find, then go out about every 1/2 hour or so and inspect the runs. If you find one that's pushed back up, or if you see the ground working up, there he is. Smash down the run behind it, then nail it with the shovel or pitchfork. I even had one pushing the grass back up not more than 2 minutes after I pulled the lawn roller over it! Tough little bastards! |
.308 works, too. One made the mistake of pushing up dirt when I arrived at the range some years ago. Took the tip of his nose off. |