Nothing Teaches Gophers to StaY Away Like The Rodent Blaster

Working out in my garden yesterday I mentally tallied the cost of the six stone fruit trees that gophers and voles killed last year in my small orchard. It didn’t take me long to realize that the damn creatures had wiped out nearly $200 in nursery stock.

            The bastards!

            At about the same time I looked over my shoulder and noticed three mounds in a line between my neighbor’s shrub and my new Katy apricots.

And that explains why I was lying prone with my pellet rifle sticking through the shrubs, staring at a fresh pile of dirt through a rifle scope for nearly one half hour yesterday.

            I’m sorry to report that Brother Gopher is no longer singing “I’m Alright,” He’s gone to a better place, somewhere other than my grove. I try to stay on top of the gopher and vole population. Mostly, I use dry ice to prosecute them in their dens and this winter I’ve already gone through about seven pounds. But for particularly determined rodents I pull out my pellet rifle and my plastic tub of hyper velocity, lead free Skenco saboted field pellets.

            If I can see the rodonets, I can reach out and touch them with a 1000 fps pellet.

            But there is another way to control buroing rodents. So without further ado, I present  the Rodent Blaster Propane Oxygen Bomb.  When the gophers get to be too much,you nothing shows them the errors of their ways like fuel-air explosives.

            Actually I’m quite a softy when it comes to small furry or feathered things. But I draw the line when gophers wipe out $200 worth of my custom ordered organic fruit tree saplings.—Jim Forbes in my gardendavidda on 02/21/2008.