<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I haven't seen Brad's note come thru yet, so Richard's note is the first I'm seeing this.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Here's the long version of the Gopher Call story: if you visit our homepage, you'll see we are broken down into three brands: Central Tools, Moody Tools, and King Tools. We've always been Central Tools. The latter two are acquisitions we made, and kept the brand names as they have recognition with customers.</div><div><br></div><div>King Tool came out of Bozeman, MT in 2015. They were retiring and selling out and we moved the whole thing back to our location in Cranston, RI. (I spent about a month in Bozeman between August-Sept 2015; it's a wonderful place) The gopher call was one of King Tool's little side-projects. It clearly doesn't fit with the tool theme of our company, but it's a decent seller with a decent profit margin, so we kept it. About all I can say about it is that it does make some whistling sort of noise when you blow thru it. Whether that whistle actually attracts gophers... sorry, no personal experience. They've been around for quite a while and we sell a bunch every year, so I guess if they didn't work, word would have gotten around by now.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately they happen to be in short supply right now. We are having a lot of trouble procuring certain aluminum products, and the tube for the body of the gopher call was backordered for an ungodly long time. Material came in and we ran them less than a week ago. Now they go back out to an outfit somewhere in the Northwest for camo anodizing. Oddly, we can't get anyone to do a camo pattern anodize anywhere local to us, so we continue to use the original vendor, requiring shipping in both directions. Our main customer is an outfit called Lockhart... here's a link:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.lockhart-industries.com/products/kcs-gopher-call?variant=8632524165">https://www.lockhart-industries.com/products/kcs-gopher-call?variant=8632524165</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>But wait. I just checked stock and it looks like we have 22 on hand of the Central brand. </div><div><br></div><div>SO</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:05 AM Richard Walker <<a href="mailto:richardwalker@pobox.com">richardwalker@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Arial">Like Brad, gotta say I'm skeptical, but also
curious. Any user reviews, Steve?<br>
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<p><font face="Arial"><a href="https://www.centraltools.com/kgc-gopher-call.html" target="_blank">https://www.centraltools.com/kgc-gopher-call.html</a></font></p>
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<div><font face="Arial">So, I stumbled across this gopher call.
Really? Any knowledge about this product? If I can sit in my
dining room with that and my pellet gun, city limits puts the
kybosh on the .17HMR, I'd be a happy man. So please tell me
more! That will push me over the free shipping limit. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">Googling, I did find one post praising it on a
predator forum:</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.predatormastersforums.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=675112" target="_blank">http://www.predatormastersforums.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=675112</a></font></p>
<font face="Arial"><b>Redfrog I have the above </b><b>K.C. Gopher
Call, it works like a charm, especially usefull at rimfire sorts
of ranges. The science (from a U of Lethbridge site) is that
gopher (richardson ground squirels) have two basic warning calls
one for aerial predators (shorter and variable pitch) and one
for ground predators (longer single pitch). Thier reaction is
different for the two calls the short one they take cover
(aerial attacks are fast) with the long call there tendency is
to stand up and look for the threat. Which exposes them to be
shot.</b><b><br>
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</b><b>Typical routine with me is to :</b><b><br>
</b><b>find an area that has them </b><b><br>
</b><b>sit down</b><b><br>
</b><b>shoot the ones dumb enough to not hide</b><b><br>
</b><b>shoot the ones dumb enough to come out to see what all
the shooting is about</b><b><br>
</b><b>start caling</b><b><br>
</b><b>shoot the ones dumb enough to come out to see where the
trouble is.</b><b><br>
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</b><b>Move to the next likly spot and repeat.</b><b><br>
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</b><b>The furthest I have had them stand up is 200ish, weather
they stood because of the call at that range it is hard to
prove, but under 100 it is really obvious that it works.</b><b><br>
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</b><b>It is so worth the 20$ don't leave home without it </b></font></p>
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