GFB,
I'm based over North of Medford.....so I live in this corner of the state...
We live off of what use to be a 9 hope golf course...I've shot 4 VERY big sage rats so far this year, hanging around the yard, and digging deep and big holes and tunnels...these things are big enough to be the size of tree squirrels...
all 4 where shot after they scampered down a hole, on a creek bank...I just waited behind one of my cars with a 10/22, using the top of the vehicle for a rest... 6 power Weaver on top...
Shot three that came out of the same hole, during an hour period... the other a couple of days later...
big suckers, so I don't know how old they were....
You're not far from KFall and the chucks! I haven't found many chucks yet and the sheep herders were in my chuck spot today I went to a new spot and the sagerats were out! Not a ton but consistent shooting for a couple of hours. The problem was the grass is getting tall. Some spots you could only see their heads peeking out. Sorry no pics, grass is too tall to walk through without snake boots. And it's a pretty snakey area.
