Richardson Ground Squirrel a.k.a.
chizzleramos maximus humori. Let me tell you these little critters eat tons of alfalfa hay every year. The farmers in Iron County Utah really want them gone as they chizzle their profits way down. The framers trap them, leave out poison grain for them, and have gone so far as to pump poison gas down their burrows. Bounty Hunter 6 and I have been doing our duty for the agriculturalists. We have gone together to hunt on over 12 occasions. I doubt we have taken less than 300 on any one hunting trip. I believe Bounty Hunter 6 has taken many more on other hunts when I couldn't go due to work scheduling. All-in-all Bounty Hunter 6 probably has taken over 3,000+ chizzlers this spring. The rascals can relax now as he is out of town working for awhile.
My grandson came to visit on his spring break and it snowed in the chizzler fields. We went out anyway and Hunter took maybe 40 or more of the beasties. His father took a couple hundred the same morning. We had a great time with the white background shooting at the brown/gray chizzlers painted with red on the snow. I was honestly worried about delivering the great hunting I had talked about in email and on the phone due to the snow -- but the little vermin were hungry and out looking for food even with a skiff of snow on the ground. My worry was for naught.
I need to wait for the weather to clear and my work to be caught up, than off to Iron County I go, high ho, high ho, high ho . . . Looking for Richardson Ground Squirrels . . . . .
