I'm being invaded by a Mole or a Vole. This is no joke I go out in the morning and I see a mound of fresh soil about a foot high or so high, so I kick it around and walk away. I go into town or where ever, and when I get back it's even bigger. This goes on all day and night, sometimes the crafty little pest relocates by 20 or even 40 feet. Leaving a 3 inch high mound like trough to his new destination. I kick it around and stomp his little trail down.

Then 2 to 3 hours later he's either in the same spot or relocated. My cool hunting cat has gone on a walk about, and I swear my wife's fat lazy paranoid, never leave the house good for nothing cat laughs at me, from the confines of his safe home which I proved for.

Yup I've sat out with a box of beer and a BB gun, then the pitch fork and then on to the shot gun, just waiting for the moment to strike but it just doesn't happen. I've peppered the lawn with at least 12 maybe 15 rounds, he must be from another world, he will not die ! "he's on to my game isn't he" I've even tried 162,078,003,925 gallons of water, he must have a u-boat in there. Then I tried to smoke him out with a bug smoker, it made me ill.

What am I to do ? This is been going on for 3 weeks now ,my wife thinks it's amusing, amusing my butt" Just wait till she wakes up with a mole head beside her in bed staring at her, or till she falls to Mainland China through on of his crevasses.

What can I do to rid my land and my life of this crafty pest

 

Get some C4 and mold them into little varmit look-a-alikes and drop them into the holes and BOOM!......No more varmit however you might have to re landscape a little.

 

Rick,

I have battled moles for the last few years in my front lawn. I don't have a large area, so the damage they inflict really stands out. It is very difficult to stop them because they move around so much. I also don't like to use poisons on the grass because of kids and dogs. Honestly, I wasn't emotional about harming the little guy, I just wanted to relocate him somewhere else!

The most effective method I had was with the garden hose. After monitoring his trenches for a couple of days, seeing which ones come up after tamping them down, I determined a fairly small area that I knew he'd be in. I stuck the hose down the hole and turned the water all the way on and waited for the tunnel to fill up. After a few minutes, he came digging above ground to escape the water and I scooped him up in a 5 gallon bucket. I walked him down to a large field and released him unharmed. The key is monitoring the tunnels to locate him by process of elimination!

 

Somebody's watched Caddyshack a few too many times.

 

I know that this can't be funny to you, but I have just laughed harder than I have in a week or two .... yeah..I'm with the other guys...go rent Caddyshack and check out the techniques that didn't work.... then go to the internet and find out what they like to eat (isn't it worms and grubs and stuff?) and put you some out in a live catch trap. many of the local humane societies or animal control offices have them and will allow you to use them to catch pests. and after you've caught him...... well...I'll leave that up to you

 

They also make a mole bait poison that is inserted underground that is available from feed stores. I had to use that method a few years ago when all of the above mentioned (except C4) methods failed.

 

Yes BB i love that movie.

 

They also make a spring loaded trap that you position above one of the runs. When the varmit trips it .... instant molekabob.

 

The traps didn't work, the mole poison bait is magic The stuff we use is poisoned peanuts- just use a stick to push them into the tunnels

 

Well we went into town earlier and purchased some vermin poison and 2 more Y adapters for the hose. I'm gonna hit four holes at once, with bucket in hand and shotgun nearby, just in case he's too quick for me. The poison will be a last resort, too many friendly meaningful critters around but if it has to be, there may be some collateral damage, he's going down this weekend come hell or high water he's mine I got his number

I'm smelling success as we speak.

 

I'd be willing to bet that 162,078,003,925 gallons of water cost quite a bit. I think that's somewhere around the capacity of Lake Lanier...

 

I know you're going to think I've "been smokin' sum'thin' " but the little varmints are really an asset to your lawn...The reason they are there is because your grass is full of bugs eating the roots , and killing the grass...The pointy nosed critters are eliminating them and aerating the sod... If you kill the critters, then you will have to buy more poison to kill the nematodes .....Get a roller and roll the humps back down and be gratefully for your little yard helpers... Fall is coming and they will be hibernating soon...I had them in Penna. and found that life was much easier when I quit fighting them and joined them with a roller......................................... Have you mentioned the use of C-4 to your neighbors?

 

Michaeld6638 I'm on a well 396 feet deep and the aquifer is huge. I could run water for years, it'll just keep coming and eventually make it's way back into the aquifer. But I'm willing to last out a hundred year drought, to rid myself of this crafty little pest.

Jerrybo66 I can understand the benefits that can be had, but his mounds are just to big. If he would just keep the dirt under the grass we could live in harmony. As for C-4
my closest neighbours are over a mile away, lets just hope it doesn't come to that, and he goes down easy.

What tic's me off is I'm willing to share my 100 acres with him, just not the 1 acre of lawn around the house.

The young lad has a soccer tournament this weekend, last game today is at 3 . So I'll get started after dinner, looking outside this morning I saw he's no wiser to the plan. I went out and kicked down 2 mounds, then flagged the holes with little sticks, so as not to let him know something is up. They gave me some little red flags at the garden center yesterday to mark the holes, "ya like I'm going to tip him off to my little plan" I'm ready "on my game so to speak" he's going down by night fall.

 

You need a Mole land mine. Take a .38 cartridge and fill it with black powder. You need to fire it by having a trip wire with a battery to set off the primer. A nieghbor of mine had great success doing so.

 

an emtpy CO2 cartrige makes a great little critter killer
fill it 3/4 full of powder and get some canon fuse from a yearround fireworks store.
or use a modelrocket ignitor