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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Mega Moles! 02/07/18 at 10:00:17 Over the weekend the sun came out and warmed up the ground a bit....and a mole decided that the groundhog didn't know what he was talking about and spring had arrived........and the mole began to tunnel around in my yard and tear the place up. However - I set a trap and got him! We really do grow big moles in KY!
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Tocsik Serious Thumper Offline the singularity Posts: 1163 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #1 - 02/07/18 at 11:18:49 Yep, you should definitely have that mole removed.
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engineer Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 872 Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #2 - 02/07/18 at 13:54:32 What a trophy! You should get it stuffed and display it in your man cave.
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bobert_FSO Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 421 Wichita KS Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #3 - 02/07/18 at 14:06:42 Get a few more and you can make a jar of this...
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Tocsik Serious Thumper Offline the singularity Posts: 1163 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #4 - 02/07/18 at 14:45:31 bobert_FSO wrote on 02/07/18 at 14:06:42: Get a few more and you can make a jar of this... Now that's funny right there.
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batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #5 - 02/07/18 at 15:07:35 Sweet!
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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2633 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #6 - 02/08/18 at 05:06:18 Tocsik wrote on 02/07/18 at 14:45:31: bobert_FSO wrote on 02/07/18 at 14:06:42: Get a few more and you can make a jar of this... Now that's funny right there. Agreed
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Reply #7 - 02/08/18 at 05:50:42

Dave, when I first saw that mole picture I thought it was met to be a joke, an image modified by photoshop somehow. Then I googled North American moles and discovered they can grow to 7 inches long! The biggest I've ever seen was maybe 3 inches. Guess I've only seen the toddlers.

Years ago I read that in the early days people made change purses out of the skins and I always wondered how they did that out of something so small, now I know.

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Reply #8 - 02/08/18 at 06:45:57

Their fur is really incredible. It is velvety soft.....and for some reason the dirt/mud doesn't stick to them. It would make really nice gloves or collars.

I really don't like killing animals for just being animals, and if when they stay in the fields and woods I leave them alone - but when they come into the yard I have to take action, as they really make a mess. On the burrows they push the grass up and it loses contact with the soil and the grass dies, and then they also make basket ball size piles of dirt where they push the dirt up out of the burrows.

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Reply #9 - 02/08/18 at 07:29:45

They destroyed my yard a few years ago. I probably killed a dozen of them over a two year period. Now I'm left with a large depression in my front yard, a depressed section of pavers in my patio and a crapload of collapsed tunnels leading down to my pond where the would feast on worms in the moist shoreline.

As a bonus, I had a couple of Muskrats making dens in my yard as well.

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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #10 - 02/08/18 at 21:14:04 I think they did make gloves out of them years ago, maybe Google Moleskin gloves.
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2217 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #11 - 02/09/18 at 09:26:58 Well, so much for ever having molasses again!
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10667 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #12 - 02/14/18 at 07:45:28 Dave, GOD has Blessed you mightily. He has blessed the work of your hands, your crops, and your herds of MEGA sized moles. There has been no one in all the Bible that I have seen who has been blessed with such a herd as you have, my brother. GOD must love you greatly to have blessed you so.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #13 - 02/14/18 at 08:07:24 I am blessed in many ways. When the weather is warmer and the catfish in the pond are active.....a mole thrown into the pond only has to swim for 10 seconds or less - then there is a big splash and it is gone!
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10667 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Mega Moles! Reply #14 - 02/14/18 at 10:42:17 Dave wrote on 02/14/18 at 08:07:24: I am blessed in many ways. When the weather is warmer and the catfish in the pond are active.....a mole thrown into the pond only has to swim for 10 seconds or less - then there is a big splash and it is gone! Oh my, you ruthless* man you !*
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