Took out 2 varmits last night

old · Nov 8, 2013

So about 30 minutes apart I shot 2 opossums. Bad ting is that I also shot a rain barrel and a barn cat food bowl. At least I now know how wide the pattern is on my 410 at 10 feet LOL

Billy NY · Nov 8, 2013

LOL, thats kinda like shooting at pigeons in the barn and putting holes in the roof, my father used to do it once in awhile in our old hay barns.

I never really understood possums, somewhere back in '04 I had a pet crow, he could not fly, so I looked after him, off season he had the run of my upper garden, being fenced in, sometimes other crows would visit him, I could watch him out the kitchen window. One evening I came home from work, it was just about dusk, I always let him out before the sun goes down and had a roost inside the basement for him, this crow was frantic running around, so I take another look, darned possum in there with him, he just hated that thing. I picked it up with thick gloves on, thing stunk, some weird slime or who knows what was coming out the back end, heard that thing running off through the leaves, are these carnivores, predators, have to keep them away from your chickens etc ?? nasy looking, I think I've seen on you tube people keep em as pets, one strange rodent if you ask me LOL !

old · Nov 8, 2013

To me a opossum is just an over sized rat and only good thing for them is some lead out of the barrel of a shot gun. Same goes for a coon or ground hog only good for target practice

OH - 961 · Nov 8, 2013

Billy, A good possum is a dead possum!
They will eat anything from garbage, vegetables, fruit, and dead stuff to killing your chickens for some fresh meat.
Just a nuisance animal.

Myron

BushogPapa · Nov 8, 2013

At the looks of things Deer, possum & coon season should be all year long.

Ron.

DeltaRed · Nov 9, 2013

Dad once had a pigeon that would crap right in the middle of his windshield view.Every morning.He finally had enough.Pulled the 30-30 from behind the pickup seat.BOOM!!!No more pigeon. And a BIG hole in the shed roof!

Dan T in MO · Nov 9, 2013

Actually, coon makes a fine roast. Possum-not so much. Never have tried ground hog.

gene bender · Nov 9, 2013

just for kicks look them up and read about them they are a very interesting animal

Fergienewbee · Nov 9, 2013

Several years ago at a fashion show I saw a coat covered just in opossum faces--everything from behind the ears forward. That was one ugllllllly coat. On a positive note I once got more for my opossum pelts than my muskrats.

Larry

Anonymous-0 · Nov 9, 2013

I caught two coons in one live trap the other night, set two last night wonder if I'll have four this morning?

rdandersom · Nov 9, 2013

Never done it but I am told that groundhog is good eating.Harrowsmith magazine ran an article about it in the 70"s.

Mark - IN. · Nov 9, 2013

"Took out 2 varmits last night"

Back in my drinking days, that's what bar bouncers often said the day afterwards about me and either me and a girlfriend or me and one of my buddies. Decades later, old sayings don't change much. Grin.

Mark

randallinMo · Nov 9, 2013

Don't worry Old, I like to drink a little too. A little collateral damage ain't no big deal.

Blackhole49 · Nov 9, 2013

What was he shooting out of his 30-30 to put a "big" hole in any roof?

Blackhole49 · Nov 9, 2013

Same with rain barrels and cat food bowls?

Super Trucker · Nov 9, 2013

Kinda like a friend taking down a coon in the straw barn. He wanted it gone as he has customers in there a lot. I saw it in the rafters and told him go get his gun. He came back with a 300 win mag! I told him to wait til I got out of the barn before he pulled the trigger! Did you know they cut a coon completely in half?

Anonymous-0 · Nov 9, 2013

Now you have something to eat for supper. I hear they are a delicacy to thee ozark folks.

old · Nov 9, 2013

Has little to do with drinking but has a lot to do with where the animal is when you get a shot. The barrel I am surprised about since it is over 20 years old and dish just happened to be in the wrong place LOL

todd hamilton · Nov 9, 2013

My brother once flushed a mole with garden hose and shot it with the 12 gauge. He blew the end off of the hose, put 1' diameter hole in the yard, and set off mom's heart palpatations. We think he got the mole as we found a piece of jawbone with a couple of teeth.

Rich_WI · Nov 9, 2013

(quoted from post at 07:57:55 11/09/13) What was he shooting out of his 30-30 to put a "big" hole in any roof?

Most likely a bullet. Once a bullet hits something, it starts to deform and sometimes tumble as it continues its flight. Once that happens, when it hits something else it does immense damage, hence big holes in roofs after shooting stuff in barns.

Not only that, "big" hole is a sliding scale. A 3 inch hole in a wall in absolutely huge.... to a mouse wanting to get though. That same 3 inch hole in pretty darn small if you want to reach your arm into it grab a wire for pulling through. A 3 inch hole in a roof is nothing short of a "big" hole when you consider its in your ROOF (which lets in rain and snow), not to mention the trouble it takes to get up there to repair it.

So, as you can see, its all about perspective.

RamblinMan · Nov 9, 2013

Had moles in the backyard. Got two beagles and within a week there were dead moles on the ground. Never had any since.

T in NE · Nov 9, 2013

They are actually marsupials, not rodents.

Dr. Walt · Nov 10, 2013

Bullet actually made a small hole, it was what was left of the Pigeon following the bullet that made the big hole. BTDT

Doc

Dr. Walt · Nov 10, 2013

Wanna have some fun? Set out a pan of water & half a dozen Sugar Cubes where the coon can find them, then sit back and watch the fun when the coon finds the Sugar Cubes and tries to "wash" them before eating them. The expression on the coons face when he tries to figure out where they went is hilarious. LOL, BTDT

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