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Need to kill a mole.

I put a hose in the hole and run it till water comes out another hole.

reply to Lurch77
My neighbor is retired. He has all day to do whatever he wants. He gets a lawnchair, a cold beverage, and a shovel. He sits and waits until he actually sees one moving through the yard and then whacks it with the shovel. He stomps their tunnels down first to make it easier to see them move.

I've tried all the baits and poisons. The exhaust hoses, the castor oil, the bubble gum. They don't work.

The "spike" traps rarely work. You need about 8 of them. I'd say I've killed *maybe* 10 moles in 10 years with spike traps.

My most successful kills have been using the "flood 'em out" method. I find the highest hole or trail and stick a water hose in it. Some times it will literally run for 20 minutes without seeing a trickle of water or a mole. Eventually their tunnels all flood and the moles come up shortly thereafter. They all seem to come up at once, so it's nice to have a BB gun or a partner. Then you either shoot or bash them as the run away above ground. They are actually kind of fast.
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reply to Lurch77
I use revenge smoke bombs.

reply to Lurch77
Doesn't Melatonin know how to do something like this?

Seriously though, I'd probably camp out and wait till he pops his head out and zap him with a pellet rifle. That's what I did as a kid when we had moles/gophers as a kid and the poison baits and smoke didn't do anything.
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reply to Lurch77
Shooting them is the only true way to get rid of them!
They will come back!

reply to Lurch77
The best advise I have seen and it somewhat worked when I seemed to have a lot in my yard was to remove their food. I used a strong grub killer to spray my yard with, gradually they went somewhere else, probably a neighbor's yard.

reply to Lurch77
There are moles in the winter in Wisconsin?

reply to Lurch77
Time to play whack a mole then.

reply to Lurch77
This:

reply to Lurch77
Use one of these.

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reply to Plan Ahead
I love the explosive method demo'ed in the videos. But I am sure that if I were doing that, I would have some smart-ass rodent that looped his tunnel back around to under my feet and I would be atop the explosion.
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reply to sk1939
That's fun and all, but I want to see carcasses. Unless there's a body count, it didn't work.
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reply to Lurch77
that rodenator is expensive, just an LP gas/oxygen mix injector with an ignitor on the end. just injecting LP gas, since it's heavier than air may work. without the ignition. the chlorine gas from "pool shock" or bleach should work too. pour some of that in the holes, and it should seep down to the rest of the tunnels.

reply to nunya

Our Jack Russell will nail them if she can. But she will also further excavate their holes if I let her, further ruining the lawn.

reply to Lurch77
I had an infestation of moles not gophers.
Poison worms for moles, was skeptical, but 2.5 yrs later, still no moles.
Get the poison worms at the local "farm store"

reply to iknow
Bleach will also kill the roots of your lawn, and will poison your water if you have a well.

reply to sempergoofy