Customer Reviews

The Giant Destroyer Gas Bomb

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I have 4 acres that I spent a lot of money landscaping. Cat used to catch a lot of the moles, but he's getting fat and lazy like me. Tried poisons, but they're expensive and unreliable, and the dogs could end up getting to it. Also, the "repellents" don't work - you want to eradicate them, not scare them into adjacent areas where they'll just come back or dig up your neighbors yard. I used to buy these individually at the hardware store, but if you buy 100 at a time, you can get them for close to a buck apiece.

The trick to using them is in technique and vigilance. First, I take them all out of their packages and put the fuses in a plastic bag where they'll stay dry. It's easy to lose the fuses if you don't do this. Cut a piece of 1/2" garden hose about 18" long. Take the sticks and put them in a pail with a lid (an old paint can, powdered laundry detergent box, etc) along with your hose and a narrow hand shovel. Go to a mound, and probe for an opening with the shovel. The fresher the hole the easier. Once you find the opening, make sure it's free of dirt by pushing the hose down into the opening. Otherwise, it may be blocked partway down and the smoke won't get down into the burrow. Light the fuse, wait for the fuse to burn down a little, and shove it into the hole FUSE FIRST, covering it with dirt. You will be able to hear the stick burning even though it's covered.

Sometimes you won't be able to find the opening - in that case, just stomp down the dirt to compact it - put a little water on it if you have to - and the moles will push a new hole up overnight to breathe. Once you have things under control, it gets easier. Since moles are active at night, the best time to bomb them is first thing in the morning. Sometimes, the fresh holes are still exposed, so you don't even have to use the shovel. Any fresh dirt that wasn't there the night before is almost a sure kill. In these cases, you don't even need a full stick - you can cut the sticks in half with a PVC pipe cutter, and cut the fuses in half with scissors. If you use a butane lighter, you don't really even need the fuse most of the time, but it's faster if you do. Take an awl and punch a hole for the fuse in the second half of the stick, which will be plenty to nuke a fresh hole - and now you're only paying 50 cents a kill.

For infested areas, the key is to stay on top of it. Moles are voracious eaters and diggers, and the more complex their tunnels get, the harder it is to eradicate them since they have more escape routes. I've probably killed a couple hundred moles this way. They still come back now and then, but not for long.

I have used hundreds of Giant Killers in various yards over the last decade, but I can no longer recommend them. I assume Atlas changed their formula because they used to work well, but now they go out, often before they have burned even a third of the way. I have taken to drilling a hole in the end that does not come with a hole, cutting the fuse in half and putting half a fuse in each end so I can light the other end after the first end goes out. Getting them lit now is more difficult because they changed to an ( apparently ) cheaper fuse. The old green fuse worked well, but the new red fuse barely burns at all. It looks like another case of same MBA squeezing more profit out of something until it is worthless. I am switching to using lawnmower exhaust.

This product was 100% effective in eliminating a serious mole problem in my yard. Poison peanuts, traps, insecticides, dogs, shovels, water, etc. had not done much. You must follow the directions and find the most recently used burrow,dig down a few inches to see the actual tunnel(as close as possible to where you think the nest is) and insert the GD with the fuse pointed toward the nest.

hey, its great to be a home owner and spend money on turf, mowers, sprinklers, etc. and then you got it all looking awesome and a gopher comes in or a mole. Don't waste money calling that fat dude with the pickup truck to come out and stick his killer pellet rod in the ground, don't go out and buy a pellet stick either.......this is the solution and its easy and 100%. Trick is to notice that first hole early, then you go out and probe to clear the tunnerl hole, keep some extra dirt and wear gloves and then I use a flick lighter and drop in this smoking torch stick and cover....its fun.....too bad it does not whistle and blow up at end like an M-80. steve walker santa barbara , ca

I have had nothing but problems with gophers in my yard. Traps are a waste of time and I can't flood the little buggers out. I tried the Giant Destroyer and it looked like it was about 75% effective. I still have a few mounds that are popping up but it is obvious I was able to kill quite a few of them.

I think I will attempt a combined assault next using Giant Destroyers and gopher bait.

I've used a lot of products to eliminate voles and these seem to work the best. I've tried cheaper ones that did not produce enough gas and the little varmits actually dug them out and flipped them on top of the ground. Talk about a "Caddy Shack" experience!! The first time you use them you will be a bit surprised as it is like lighting a giant firecracker but after a few times you become quite proficient at it. I've learned to check for mounds 1st thing in the morning and only put them down new burrows, as the critters move alot and may have blocked that tunnel or moved on. Experience is the key to a good kill.

Well, I've gone through the whole box, and no luck in clearing out my pocket gopher problem with the "Giant Destroyer". I was as close as it gets to an active burrow, I watched the gopher stick his head out of the hole, and I ran over and dumped the lit destroyer into the hole. I quickly sealed it, and you could hear the device burning underneath the dirt -- and there was no leaking smoke anywhere in the yard. So this is the best case scenario, a entire tunnel filled with smoke, knowing the gopher was
right there. Things were quiet for the day, but sure enough at dusk, another new hole pops up in our yard.

So my advice, you can probably skip this step, and move on to the traps, and then poison pellets for the gopher problem.

I must have bought more than two dozens of the gassers. Initially, I thought they were effective. But the last time I used them, they did not work at all. Even after using two bass bombs in one hole, the rodent was not killed. So I doubt its effectiveness and will not waste my money again. The concept is great, but the product is not poisonous enough to kill gofers.

I used 7 of them and it didn't kill a thing, I finally killed the little bastard with a trap...I might not have used them correctly ( but I think I did ) but they didn't work for me.

The development in which I live is a wooded hilly area so there are many squirrels and chipmunks. The squirrels present a nusiance problem but the chipmunks burrow near the foundation of the house as well as in the woods. Filling in the burrows doesn't deter them because they can smell the pheronomes so they dig out the fill-in almost immediately. The Giant Destroyer not only drives them out of the tunnels but also covers the smell of the pheronomes so the chipmunks don't use the burrow for some time (a week to ten days) so a new hole may not appear for ten to fourteen days. If you can prevent them from constantly burrowing, you'll save your house. The only thing better than the Giant Destroyer would be a black snake.