I was gopher hunting early as I have to get a pot of beans going for later. Not noticing any activity so went inside to start the beans. I see a gopher out one window and a chipmunk looking at me from the deck window. Just typical, so I go for the gopher, my shooting position is all set-up already. I get in my chair, range the target, scope him and squeeze the trigger.... ONE DONE, I get my gear and head around the other side of the house and set-up behind a tree stump. It takes a while, but the Striped Raider is busy working in my wife's potted plants and I spot it. A .22 CPHP interrupts a mid cheek pouch stuff with a nice POP and another pest is put down.
I had picked up the gopher and put it over by the woodshed for a picture before I moved my gear over to try for the chipmunk, well when I take the chipmunk over for the photo shoot....no gopher!!!! Our resident gray fox couldn't wait and took the gopher while I was busy. She has a litter of kits nearby and we help her out with my rodent kills, she probably does not need our help but we like to do it anyway. The same fox has been here for several years and we enjoy her and her babies, 5 last year. Without her helping me eliminate pest rodents, I doubt I could keep up.
Pellet hit just under the left earhole and out the other side, fast, clean humane kill. Blood drops to the foreground of the chipmunk is where the gopher was.
Have a good Memorial Day, remember and honor our fallen hero's
Arrowhead1951
I had picked up the gopher and put it over by the woodshed for a picture before I moved my gear over to try for the chipmunk, well when I take the chipmunk over for the photo shoot....no gopher!!!! Our resident gray fox couldn't wait and took the gopher while I was busy. She has a litter of kits nearby and we help her out with my rodent kills, she probably does not need our help but we like to do it anyway. The same fox has been here for several years and we enjoy her and her babies, 5 last year. Without her helping me eliminate pest rodents, I doubt I could keep up.
Pellet hit just under the left earhole and out the other side, fast, clean humane kill. Blood drops to the foreground of the chipmunk is where the gopher was.
Have a good Memorial Day, remember and honor our fallen hero's
Arrowhead1951
