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Re: Moles AB2506 #16586277 11/02/21
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota R Rooster7 Campfire Ranger
Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota	Originally Posted by AB2506 Technically they're not moles, they're pocket gophers. I learned to trap them with a #0 or #1/2 or #1 leg hold trap. You find their hole and dig it out so that the trap can be placed level in the hole and has room to spring shut. Then you use a newspaper or a piece of plywood to cover the hole. Pour dirt on the newspaper/plywood so that no light can get in. If you do it right, you should have one dead in 24hrs. It doesn't take long to clean them out. Wrong. He's talking about moles that burrow just under the sod and make a mess of your grass. Not pocket gophers that dig tunnels and push up mounds of dirt. The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

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Re: Moles prplbkrr #16586290 11/02/21
Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 2,389 G GAGoober Campfire Regular
GAGoober Campfire Regular G Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 2,389	Not moles but voles got me. Dam things cleaned out what was left of my green onion bed. I saw a stalk shaking and then it disappeared under ground. Little basturds

Re: Moles Tigerluty #16586360 11/02/21
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 8,200 Calgary Alberta, Canada AB2506 Campfire Outfitter
AB2506 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 8,200 Calgary Alberta, Canada	Originally Posted by Tigerluty Is mole that easy to remove? i have got a mole and it seems impossible to remove They're not hard, and there are all sorts of new traps that should be easier than my old legholds. BTW, the moles are deceased in the legholds. I would like to try some version of this. https://www.halfordsmailorder.com/the-black-box-hole-gopher-and-mole-trap-acblackholetr

Re: Moles gkt5450 #16586724 11/02/21
Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 691 Texas S skfullen Campfire Regular
skfullen Campfire Regular S Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 691 Texas	If she is of the religious type, you should call her holy moley. The original Frito Bandito!

Re: Moles AB2506 #16588068 11/03/21
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota R Rooster7 Campfire Ranger
Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota	Originally Posted by AB2506 Originally Posted by Tigerluty Is mole that easy to remove? i have got a mole and it seems impossible to remove They're not hard, and there are all sorts of new traps that should be easier than my old legholds. BTW, the moles are deceased in the legholds. I would like to try some version of this. https://www.halfordsmailorder.com/the-black-box-hole-gopher-and-mole-trap-acblackholetr The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

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Re: Moles GAGoober #16588085 11/03/21
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota R Rooster7 Campfire Ranger
Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota	Originally Posted by GAGoober Not moles but voles got me. Dam things cleaned out what was left of my green onion bed. I saw a stalk shaking and then it disappeared under ground. Little basturds That's what I get too. Voles. My female lab used to cock her head to the side and listen for them, pounce like a fox and leave the dead ones on the garage floor to show me what a good girl she is. The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16588089 11/03/21
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 66,976 TN slumlord Campfire Kahuna
slumlord Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 66,976 TN	This is a mole This is NOT a mole (one room schoolhouse in Salmon must have short changed some Elvis fans)

Re: Moles troublesome82 #16588275 11/03/21
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 15,885 N. La. Oldman03 Campfire Ranger
Oldman03 Campfire Ranger Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 15,885 N. La.	Originally Posted by troublesome82 I can get really phuqued up sitting in a chair with a twelve pack and a shotgun waiting for the little buggers to start pushing up soil in my general direction! I am thankful beer is so cheap! In my younger days, I'd dig into a gopher mound, leave the tunnel open, step back a little ways and wait. Wouldn't be long before you would see dirt being pushed from inside the tunnel to stop it up. High brass #6's worked very well. Old Turd- Deplorable- Unrepentant Murderer- Domestic Violent Extremist Just "Campfire Riffraff and Trash" This will be my last post! Flave 1/3/21

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16588294 11/03/21
Joined: Sep 2021 Posts: 4,001 Georgia STRSWilson Campfire Tracker
STRSWilson Campfire Tracker Joined: Sep 2021 Posts: 4,001 Georgia	I pump their tunnels with insecticide mixed with concentrated pepper extract. Seems to drive them out of the yard posthaste. Would rather kill them but that is a mystic art to its own and I have never had any success with traps. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16588376 11/03/21
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 2,190 Elizabeth, CO T TRnCO Campfire Regular
TRnCO Campfire Regular T Joined: May 2011 Posts: 2,190 Elizabeth, CO	I've had some luck sticking an extension on to the exhaust of my ATV and sticking the extension into one of their holes and letting the ATV idle for about 20 minutes, as I walk around and plug any other holes that I see exhaust escaping. Gas em!! Laws aren't preventative measures. In other words, more laws won't prevent gun crime from happening.

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Re: Moles prplbkrr #16588460 11/03/21
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia D Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter
Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia	I have shredded Irish Spring soap and scattered it around the active areas and they left. Now my neighbor has a cat and she's taken care of that problem. The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16588622 11/03/21
Joined: May 2018 Posts: 1,503 St. George, Utah S StGeorger Campfire Regular
StGeorger Campfire Regular S Joined: May 2018 Posts: 1,503 St. George, Utah	What does the last mole in the tunnel see? Molasses. One of my late father's. Old guy, old guns.

Re: Moles StGeorger #16591028 11/04/21
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota R Rooster7 Campfire Ranger
Rooster7 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 16,670 Minnesota	Originally Posted by StGeorger What does the last mole in the tunnel see? Molasses. One of my late father's. haha Good Dad joke there! The deer hunter does not notice the mountains "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16591065 11/04/21
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 553 Ohio Lansend Campfire Regular
Lansend Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 553 Ohio	Mole worm baits.

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16591128 11/04/21
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,149 Back home, Az DaveR Campfire Regular
DaveR Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,149 Back home, Az	Guns are responsible for killing as much as Rosie O'Donnel's fork is responsible for her being FAT.

Re: Moles Crusader #16591300 11/04/21
Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 1,187 Wisc. Edge of the Driftless Ar... P prplbkrr OP Campfire Regular
OP prplbkrr Campfire Regular P Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 1,187 Wisc. Edge of the Driftless Ar...	Originally Posted by Crusader Originally Posted by prplbkrr Put out a Mole Eliminator trap. Instructions said to check 12-24 hrs. Got my 1st one in 45 mins. More to come. Would you post a pic of or a link to, the Mole Eliminator trap? My daughter's yard has a mole tearing it up and my old, spike-type trap isn't getting it done. https://www.amazon.com/Wire-Tek-100...hy=9018869&hvtargid=pla-707542855648 prplbkrr = Purple Biker Can't score goals if all you do is pass.

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16594089 11/05/21
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 667 merica B barnabus Campfire Regular
barnabus Campfire Regular B Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 667 merica	Originally Posted by prplbkrr Put out a Mole Eliminator trap. Instructions said to check 12-24 hrs. Got my 1st one in 45 mins. More to come. i had a mole detrorying my yard.two months ago I bought same trap and caught him within two hours.u must use the long runs not the short branched ones.the trap works Last edited by barnabus; 11/05/21.

Re: Moles prplbkrr #16594120 11/05/21
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,203 Texas hanco Campfire Savant
hanco Campfire Savant Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,203 Texas	I have the bastards in my yard, hate them

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