GopherHawkSingle Trap for Gophers and Moles, 1 GH-TRP

This is the coolest, neatest, nifty most gadget I have ever seen. I have 10 acers in east central Oklahoma and the gopher population here in this area is unreal. You can drive past properties and see hundreds of gopher hills. I woke up one morning about 2 years ago and found about 50 gopher hills pop up over night. It was like they parachuted in from a plane and made an attack on my property over night. I started gassing them, poising them, watering them with a hose and even shooting some of them because they are stupid enough to pop their heads up during the day time. One even pop up and danced like the Cady Shack gopher did in the movie. Wish I would have had my phone to video. Yes, Shot is as he was dancing. I was loosing the battle and the war until I found this gadget. I have had my yard pretty much clear for a year now. When I see a new gopher hill pop up I just stick my long screw driver into the hill until I find the tunnel. Clean out the opening, stick this gadget down in and wait. Anywhere from couple hours to the next morning it pops up yellow and another gopher gone. I leave the hole open to see if another gopher is in there and if so, set it a second time and get that one to. My yard now looks like a yard again. Why didn't I think of this gadget. Someone is making a lot of $$$$.

This is a great product:I received it Tuesday, immediately deployed. Wednesday its triggered but missed. Immediately re-deployed. Friday it caught the first gopher. Immediately deployed on another location, today (Sunday) it caught the 2nd gopher.Here more details: I had been fighting with the gopher on my front lawn for quite a while. I tried victor gopher trap. No luck. and almost lost a trap because the gopher pulled the trap down down into his tunnel. I tried gopher bait. The gopher does not like it I guess because the next morning the bait was pushed out to the ground! :( I tried poison gasser. Even doubled the amount. No. A few days later, the used gasser tube was pushed out to the ground. I tried water. No luck either. I even tried to vacuum down the tunnel by a wet-dry vacuum, hoping to suffocate this annoying little thing. No. none of these worked. I even made my own trap, cost me two whole days. Its specially designed with 3 pair of hooks to twist to wrap if the gopher touch the trigger. I thought I was very smart because the 3 pair of hooks covers a both sides of the trigger. As long as the trigger got touched, no matter which direction the gopher comes, it will certainly catch. However, I was outsmarted. The gopher still enjoy messing with my lawn and driving me crazy.Until I decided to give gopherlawk a try. As I said at the beginning, it worked great.I did not buy the wedge and probe tool. Here is what I thought. The trap is of course ideally placed in the main tunnel. However the main tunnel is usually pretty deep and not easy to find. On the other hand, the mound is easy to work with. You can almost always poke it open from a new mound. Just work slowly. Remove the the mound will show the blocked tunnel. Poke sideways. Not vertically. Because it's impossible to block a vertical opening from inside, right? so the tunnel might be at some slope/angle. Once it's opened the gopher will for sure come back to block again. So, that's the chance to catch. So, once you poke open the tunnel, just stick the gopherhawk in. I don't think it matters if its vertical or at an angle. don't bury it with dirt again. Keep it open will make the gopher feel obliged to come back and push dirt to block the opening. Then it will get caught. Just use one or two brick blocks to keep the gopherhawk stable in place from falling. That's it.Other details:Once set, the gohperhawk does not seem to have a mechanism to reset it. So be careful. I try not to empty fire it. So I hold the back end against my body, use a stick to trigger it, then slowly release so the spring can safely withdraw.another tip: If you caught the gopher and they are still alive, you might wonder how to deal with it without bloody nasty. I used a bucket of water to drown it and bury it to its tunnel. it's its home anyway.I hope my experience can help.update: in the last 12 month since I bought it, 15 gophers caught.

I've tried everything and so far this is the only reliable mole killing tool. I kill moles regularly, within 48 hours of finding garden and lawn destruction, I pull a dead mole out and place it on a fence post to warn other vermin. Anyway, these things are great. I have 8 of them because I find that a single mole moves into my yard and destroys 3-4 different areas, so I make sure to heavily trap each zone. Beware: about one in five comes out alive, and I don't want them to suffer so you have to dispatch them with a shovel. For this reason, I check them several times a day if possible so a the mole doesnt have to suffer.

I have about 6 of these and have been using them for three years. The advantage of these over traditional gopher traps (eg, the ones with jaws that you push onto the tunnel) is that you don’t have to dig a (fairly) large hole in your yard because the Gopher Hawks catch gophers no matter which way they are traveling in the tunnel so you only need one (with conventional traps you need two- one in each direction of the tunnel, since you don’t know which way they’re coming); Gopher Hawks are much faster to set and remove than conventional traps; you can visually see when GH have been triggered; easy to empty out so no messing with gophers bodies. I took off one star because for moles I feel the Wire Tex Gopher Eliminator is better because they work better on the shallower mole tunnels, whereas the Gopher Hawk tends to fall over in the shallow tunnels unless you brace it. Check out YouTube for tips on both the Gopher Hawk and Mole Eliminator.Tip: I spray paint the tops of my gopher Hawks pink or some other bright color so they are easier to spot than black plastic in the bushes. If the trap is really out of sight, I’ll put out a pink wire irrigation flag (garden section at Home Depot) or a pink plastic ribbon on front of the bush to remind me of where the trap is. In theory, you don’t need to leave them out more than a couple days if the tunnel is active, but life gets busy and then I forget where I put them

Great traps! I bought two and caught a couple of moles within a few days. Easy to use and works as advertised>