Bow Hunting Gophers

Some how this 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, has carried over longer than it perhaps should have.  Though much of that time is unbillable hours, driving between places, fixing equipment, and cleaning the trailer up.

No rats in Alberta still, but we have lots of gophers and mice.
We still have a mouse in the house, and I have terminated about 6 of them since Sept 7.  They have probably lived here longer than me, then the population got to be a little much.

A customer was so excited when I said I could take care of his gopher problem.  I haven't really shot my bow all summer, I have been so busy.  But I took less than 10 min to set a target up in Andrew, shot 6 arrows into the center hole of a roll of electrical tape, called the bow still good.  so without making a special trip, I took the bow to my customers house to do some electrical work.  I shot 3 gophers in less than 5 min on my way to his back door.  Then another 3 every time I had to go for electrical supplies in the van.  I obviously need to get some blunt force trauma tips, it is surprisingly hard to kill gophers with target points.

Its much more satisfying hunting with the bow, for a lot of reasons.  If I had shot a gopher with a 22, that would be it, I wouldn't have got the other 2 at the same time, and even the shot gopher would have made it down the hole, leaving no evidence that I even hit it, unless it was a head shot.  Maybe next time I can get a bow cam set up, you can see my perfect shots, never missed once, but for now this is a short vid of the first 3 kills, sparing you the gory kill shots.  If you don't know what a gopher looks like its a must see. I didn't know before I moved to Alberta.  But wow can they dig holes.