first night time possum "Hunt"

[LiENUS]

No pics, sorry I was already in bed and was kind of rushed.
About 30 minutes ago my step mom comes banging on my door and says that there's a possum in the chicken coop. So I grabbed my marlin 917v and run out, beautiful shot hes up in the corner stationary hanging onto the ceiling. Popped one in the spine from about 2 feet and he fell, took him out the coop and saw a little bit of twitching, he may have been after our chickens but I hate to see him suffer so I popped him again in the head and that was that. Unfortunately none of us are any interested in possum so he's nothing but coyote bait. In checking the rest of the chicken coop we found one of our chickens had tangled itself up in the netting in the panic when my step mom went to get him out he jumped out and ran off towards the woods in the darkness, about 15 minutes later we'd herded him back into the coop so it looks like we've got one dead possum and no dead chickens (a few days ago this same bugger ate the head off one of our chickens.) After securing the coop we took him down to the field we're hoping to lure the coyotes (faaar away from the house and chicken coop) and left him.

 

[brandon_mcg]

i bought my .22 with the idea of killing every possum and armadillo that happened to wander into the yard. the things are straight ugly. so far i'm batting 1.000 on my accuracy.

 

[dacavasi]

Them 'possums is good eatin'...

 

[LiENUS]

Not sure if I want to eat possum, but are the furs possible to sell at all for any reasonable amount of money? I do have a trapping license so I could pelt em out rather than just feeding em to the coyots

 

[Savage Shooter]

around here a BIG ones worth .50cents

 

[Ranger J]

Umpteen years ago I did some trapping, rats, mink, coons and the occasional fox. I hated it when I got a possum as the fur wasn't worth squat and they were nasty to skin. As to eating them.. I would take the carcass of my catches to the woods and within a day or two they would be gone..except for the possums. They would lay there for weeks. They must have something going for them though as they have existed for millions of years and will probably outlive our species.

RJ

 

[LiENUS]

Ranger left that possum out there and the next afternoon nothing but bits of fur, buzzards got him good. Yeah I didn't think anyone would buy the furs for much just wish I could do something more than feed em to the scavengers.

 

[Ranger J]

Might make good fertilizer.

RJ