Cyanide Gas!
Be Careful this is extremely dangerous!
But I always liked playing with explosives! So what the heck!
Seal off all the holes you can find.
Fill a GLASS! Beaker or bowl with about a quart of concentrated Sulfuric acid! Caution Sulfuric acid alone is quite dangerous! You can get it from plumbing supply shops, rubber gloves are advised.
And from a chemical supply house 500 Grams of Sodium Cyanide or Potassium Cyanide! Caution both are extremely poisionous!
Do the next thing VERY quickly!
Put the cyanide in a paper bag, and have a cover ready for the gopher hole.
Place the acid bowl in the gopher hole.
Then place the Cyanide in the acid.
Cover hole and LEAVE THE AREA! For say 8 hours or so!
Come back remove covers and try not to breathe!
Smelling "Almonds" is NOT good at this point!
Let holes air for say 8 hours.
Presto all gophers will be dead along with all the earthworms around the area, and any nosy cats!
Cyanide kills by disrupting the Krebs ATP cycle, quite painless actually like turning off the power to a light bulb!
I ran through the kitchen, hearing customers' wives scream, "Oh my God, he's got a gun!!"
Past the grilled chicken, around the potato salad and hurdling the beer keg, I closed to killing range, dropped to one knee and let him have it.
Both barrels.
Pandemonium ensued. The volleyball game was abandoned, as parents grabbed their children in horror. My brother choked on a piece of chicken and spewed Bud Light through his nostrils.
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