My yard is a dangerous place

Shrews/moles are a constant problem here in the middle of the woods.

The yard stays a mess with the huge dirtpiles and I resemble Bill Murray in the movie ' CaddeyShack' hunting them. I've won many battles but the war rages on:rolleyes:.



Got a pair of hawks that have shown up here in the summer for the last three years or so.
Have watched them take a few shrews.

Maybe they also got the king/black snakes I released here some time ago to keep the poisonous snakes and shrews away :mad:.

Mother Nature , although beatiful, can sometimes be aggravating:D
 
Shrews/moles are a constant problem here in the middle of the woods.

The yard stays a mess with the huge dirtpiles and I resemble Bill Murray in the movie ' CaddeyShack' hunting them. I've won many battles but the war rages on.
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Bill Murry, AKA Greenskeeper Carl, was hunting Mr. Gopher, not shrews or moles.

If you have "huge dirt piles" then you likely don't hae a mole problem and certainly not a shrew problem. Sounds more like gophers.
 
If you have "huge dirt piles" then you likely don't have a mole problem and certainly not a shrew problem. Sounds like gophers
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Double Naught Spy
After your post, I did some research and believe you're right. Thank You;)

Once again this proves that when in a war, intelligence and knowing your enemy is of the most importance:o

Looks like I may have found yet another use for the Taurus 'Judge'.

I'm gonna pull tractor to "dirtpile" opening. Extend hose from tractor exhaust to opening. Before starting tractor, walk 'hump' in yard till it ends. Start tractor, run back to where hump ends.


If that 'lil' bugger shows his head before being gased, some #6 at close range out to do the job.

Problem I'll have to work: how to camo big red Massey Ferguson tractor.

Its GAME ON now!
This may be the battle to end the war:confused::D.

PS. If the Judge is successful on the gophers, we'll sell the idea to Taurus so they can use it in their 'JUDGE' marketing campaign.;)
I've already "Judged" several coons and possum's from the garden and fruit tree's(helps me with my 'night-time' S/D training, hehe.

PSS. If thread doesn't get closed, I'll report post-battle/casualty report later.
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Good luck Shortwave! I have always used a garden hose poked into their tunnels. Tractor exhaust sounds like a good alternative.

On a unrelated note, have you seen the eagle yet? Most people I know have spotted it near the river/quarry around where the new highschool is. I saw it near Clear Creek a few days ago. That sucker is big!
 
Pretty sure this ugly little bugger caries "Leprosy" as well.

Bring out the .357's guys and make this a thing of the past.
 
There you go Stargazer. All we have to do is lose a few cultural taboos, and recognize a valuable food source rich in protein (which also includes rats) with a year around open season and no bag limit, then that only leaves convincing people they taste like chicken. Oh, crap--I hear the footsteps of a moderator.:D
 
On an unrelated note, have you seen the eagle yet?
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Yes Willie, matter fact I have.

Earlier this summer. On a Saturday morning about 10:00 oclock. Jack Run Rd. We were on the bike riding to meet a group at 180. Eagle was sitting in a tree along side road overlooking a field. We pulled over and watched it for a minute. When I re-fired the bike , noise made it fly. What a wingspan. Haven't seen it since:(.

Tractor sounds like a good alternative.
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Old indian trick:D.
Used to watch dad smoke the groundhogs out of the farm and livestock fields. He used to take the old Farmall M or John Deere B hook the hose up to the stack and down the hole. He'd start the tractor and pull the choke out about 1/4 way.

When I was very young, I didn't know what dad was doing. Knew the holes were groundhog holes but didn't know he was killing them. I used to bug him to take my Daisy BB gun groundhog hunting so he'd take me out to a hole he had already smoked. I'd sit and wait for that groundhog for hours while he worked the field.
Mom ratted dad out years later . Dad said it kept me busy:rolleyes:

Many years later I paid him back during black powder deer season. Told him I loaded his smokepole when I loaded mine. He sit on a deer stand all day long with nothing but a cap for a charge. He was real mad that evening when he decided to take a doe and nothing went off but that cap.

Dad told mom what I did and I told her "it kept him busy":p:D.

That was a standing joke between him and I for years.
 
All we have to do is lose a few cultural taboos, and recognize a valuable food source rich in protein (which also includes rats)
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Truth be told Nnobby, that yummy food picture was actually rat not shrew. Those I could stomach, but shrew...yuck-o, too musky tasting.:barf:
 
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