Okay so... I overheard the owner of one of the printing companies I use talking about blowing gophers away.
This was last year, sometime. He was all "I just bought this gun" and "OMG" and "just 'XPLODED!" and everything.
So a coupla days ago, I re-stumble across that video where this dude is shootin' gophers. I thought he'd like it. Maybe. So... I emailed him the link with nothing else in mind than "Hey, check this out."
Next thing ya know... today... He comes busting into my office, just juiced. He navigated me to a website about this kind of ammo he uses... "See.... these are 5 cents a round, but the stuff I use is 25 cents a round - and here's why."
A half-hour passes with non-stop talk about ballistics. And then he lays it on me. "We gotta go shoot gophers!"
"Sounds good", I say... thinking, that must be Alberta-speak for "lets do lunch."
"Lets do it this Sunday!", he says.
Thing is, he's got it all figured out. He's talkin' lawn chairs, beers, custom-made tripod mounts for his guns, how to get property owners to let ya onto the land to do it... Everything. It's a done deal.
So I'm thinking.... This guy is a bit nuts to begin with. I wouldn't mind trying hunting sometime... but gophers? It's almost corny.
I throw every road-block in his face. "Aint they hybernating or something?"..... "It's way too cold for this, aint it?"
"No, man! If it's cloudy, we're hooped... only the bull gophers come out when it's cloudy... but..." and he goes www dot weather dot com and shows me the forecast. Warm and sunny on Sunday.
Neat.
So now.... I'm lined up to shoot guns at gophers.
My entire belief system advises me that this isn't such a good idea. I don't have much of a problem with, like, moose and elk and bear because, well, they're bigger than me and if we ever went toe to toe in the ring they could prolly kick the living daylights outta me so I'd best just shoot them. I know it's fickle and full of holes and all that... but so what.
Plinking gophers?... It's almost arcade-like. Those things just stand upright and don't even move for chrissakes.
All that being said... It does kinda sound like fun. I can back out at any minute no problem, but....
I need your advice.
