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Well when I was posting the medical question I went to make sure I had asked the right test name. Well to do so I had to go by the front door, ya you guessed it a opossum was eating cat food and what made it worse is that it was sitting right behind the trap doing so. So yep grab the 44mag and took a shot at about 5 foot and ya I know I got it because it did a death sort of dance as it crawled down between the porch tree and the deck. I heard if doing its thing under there but by the time I got the flash light to look under it was gone. Probably under the house into the hole that is there for the cats so they can keep the mice problem down and have a warm spot to go
 
OK Rich..... Get you a garbage can and set it at the edge of the porch (on the ground tied to the post). balance/pivot a board on the edge of the porch with some food on the end. Possum goes for the food, board dumps him in the can, he can't clime out. Now, maybe you can shoot and actually (maybe) hit him....
 
Sorry but no carcass no kill. Possums are dumb and tough.

Your going to have to start feeding the cats in the morning so at night the critters will eat your bait.

Don't mean to rub it in but I got my coons out of the barn for now anyways. Got 2 in the trap 2 nights in a row using canned frosting. Have not had any more disturbances in the trap or missing large amounts of cat food. They got to meet the business end of a mini 14.
 
Oh I hit him and I was almost point blank range but #8 shot in a 44 mag even at 5-6 foot can take a bit to do the kill job. When I hit him I hit more in the back area this time because he had his head down trying to get under the porch
 
Ya been thinking about moving the trap off the porch and out to the barn/tack house so maybe I can catch some thing that way. Shoot if I do that I might get 2 a night one on the porch with the gun and one in the trap. Oh well if does seem funny how the first 3 opossums I shot died right then and there then the coons didn't die and not the 2 opossums have learned like the coons did
 
Was always taught to shoot to kill and not let anything suffer.......... Shot a groundhog once BSing around and it went in it's hole. Dad made me dig it out and kill it. Was coon hunting with my buddy and his dad. Dogs treed a coon and my buddy shot it in the belly even though it was looking right at him (he didn't want to mess upit's hea)d.. His dad knocked the living sh!t out of him and sent him to the truck.
 
Oh I believe in shooting to kill also but when it gets where you do not know where it went how do you make sure it has died. What is really getting me is that earlier this year I shot 3 of them things on the porch and they didn't go any where but the last 2 plus the 3 coons have so don't know what is up other maybe got a bad batch of 44mag shot shells maybe since the old ones stopped hem dead in there tracks
 
Rich, I picke up a gun yesterday you need. It's the Judge, by Tarus. 5 shot revolver. Shoots .45 Long Colt, or .410 shotgun shells (3"). I havent' even shot it yet, but I think it will be good for all around farm use.

Gene
 
They are tuff I had an uncle That said he shot and skined one and it got up and run away . I never seen it so I can"t say for sure but he said it was true.
 
Coon hound went off the other night on a possum in the rock garden. Mrs wanted me to shoot it. I just grabbed it by the tail and threw it in the air. Hound had it before it hit the ground (he should be a wide receiver for the Saints) No possum to bury :)
 
When you shoot something you shoot so it will kill it with one shot,period.I understand in all the excitement hitting something and wounding it and then it wanders off.Thats the wrong thing to do.You aim,like right between the eyes and you pull the trigger and its dead with one shot.If you cant get a shot like that on a small animal you dont pull the trigger.If you shoot something at night its no different.One shot and its dead.So that means you need a good light and aim so it kills it.If you just shoot and hit it then you have a suffering animal that you would have been better off to leave alone.If you shoot close with a shotgun shell you shoot it in the head and it ought to be dead.Actually if you are real close a shotgun shell is not much different than a bullet.It takes a while for it to spread out.Sure a pistol is handy but that is not accurate like you need it to be.You need a rifle or a 12 guage.Then you dont have animals suffering if you aim and hit where you aim.
 
"grab the 44mag and took a shot at about 5 foot....crawled down between the porch tree and the deck"

That is exactly why I started using a 410. To many crawled off into somewhere and I had to fish them out. Had a ground hog under 500 small squares sitting on pallets all summer. 222 at 10 yards on the fly. Rolled him over good and heard a bunch of screaming, but he still made it under the stack. Nope, any more if I am cruising around the buildings or clearring the porch, I use 410, #6 shot, head neck area = no crawling off.
 
Doesn't like your a hunter and a 44mag is at 10 yards or less with #8 shot shell more then enough to kill. but you know very few animals drop dead right where you shot them. I know I hunt a lot and have had deer travel a half mile on half a heart and that is a almost perfect shot for deer but they can/will still go a long ways. I have shot coons in the head at point blank range with a 22 and they have gone 50 yards plus but are in fact walking dead. Your not talking to a person who doesn't know how to shoot here as a matter of fact I was at one time a hunter safety instructor for the state and had the navy marks man metal also but at 10-12PM I'm not going to go running after an animal that I shoot when it is a varmint and is the type of animal that is open to shoot year round.
So shut up PETA tree hugger
 
Shoot I have had coons that where shot at point blank range with a 22 walk 50 yards before they stopped. This year has been odd with this 44mag since most of the time no animal walks away from it and the #8 shot shells I use. I use that gun because it does not tear up my porch and all. I thought about the 20 gauge but it would be blowing holes in the porch lumber and that isn't going to happen
 
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