Moles! Help! Big yard advice needed

I live on 5-ish acres also. I have given up on defending my property from gophers.

Sometimes I put out traps or use the 12-12-12 method. A twelve pack, 12 hours and a 12 gauge. (Just kidding!) (I use a BB gun!)

Actually I live in California and it's so dry here, I think the gophers went on vacation. I haven't had any in months.

ETA: We don't use poisons because of the other wildlife and in the past we had dogs.  Poisons are non-selective.

We picked up one of those sonic mole repellants. We had a mole that was destroying our hosta's this past spring. I ran across one of these and decided to give it a try. I didn't want to kill it, I just wanted it to move somewhere else. That poor little thing packed up and moved almost immediately. It did come back when the batteries apparently went dead. Once we noticed a hosta missing, we changed the batteries and it left again. They have them in solar also, and that is what we will get next time instead of batteries. I wanted to make sure that it worked before spending so much on one. They have a pretty good range, so you could buy three or four and have a pretty good sized area covered. Good luck. Those little monsters can sure be aggravating.

I found mine at Walmart but you can get the better ones that are solar and offer more coverage, at Lowes, Home Depot, Amazon, etc.

We have a large property too so it is daunting. We put in 2 spring traps on their route. My dog helps with them too. We got 2, our dog caught another 2, and since July no sign of them. Not convinced they are gone for good but the damage has stopped

I'm interested in the sonic repellant - we just moved to a new house with five acres and we have mole holes everywhere!Thanks for the suggestions.

My neighbor swears by Zoo Doo -- composted waste from the predators at the zoo. She does have a perfect lawn. You can also get concentrate urine from cougars and the like (online, at hunting supply stores) and pour a solution of that down the holes. Apparently domesticated cats and their litter are not sufficiently aversive for today's moles, but used cat litter poured down the holes was an old standby in times past.

I personally know nothing, but I heard a long monologue on the topic from our gardening goddess neighbor, Trish, who is 89 and still maintains the perfect yard.

Good luck. We've tried all but the killing the grub method (as well as the juicy fruit gum and a host of other strange legendary treatments). Nothing worked for us. But like the previous poster, we live in California and have a dry lawn and we haven't had one in a long long time.