Subject: Re: Hoping 2025 doesn't ...

In any event, unless you have a telescopic sight and a bit o’ luck, those pellets wouldn’t do much more that scare them away for a few hours. Them gophers have tough hides.

Ohhh contraire. My last house had a large back lawn with gazania borders. One dead-calm still morning, before sunrise, I noticed a gazania twitch! It was a gopher, fresh hole, dining on the gazanias.

I bought a cheap scope for my pump action pellet rifle and got it dialed in so I could hit a dime sized circle at 30'. A head/neck shot kills a gopher immediately. They don't even twitch.

The current battleground is in plain view of the street. Bleeding heart people with cellphones walking their dogs might not appreciate the necessity to get roots in the soil before the deluge.

Update: My backyard artichokes got hit! This is war!