Possum problems!!

[Anonymous-0]

Hello all, i've trapped 2 possums under my porch that my red heeler just had a ball with until i could find a gun, and since then i found 2 in the field close to my house heading my way in a hurry. What the heck is attracting them? I'm trying to kill 'em off as fast as i can so i won't have a bigger problems with babies. Can't find a trace of any around my property or around the barn at all. I love around 1000 acres and the closest tree line is about a mile or more away. I just don't get it. Also is there a better .22 bullet than a hollow point? i gotta suck about 4 or 5 in 'em before they lay up. Thanks- T

 

[chrisinsoky]

do you have chicken? whole corn layin around?
they seem to like the smell of corn silage too? just keep killin em

 

[old]

LOL LOL LOL. Guess you have not been on here for a few. Been fighting opossums and coons now for weeks. Cat food dog food grain etc etc will bring them in and with all this bad weather it just helps to bring them in more. Shoot I shot one the other day and if fell under my porch. I went out and shot it 2 more times with a 22 and the next day it was gone. Who knows where or what happened to it

 

[chrisinsoky]

couple years ago i nailed 1 to the rafter of the barn with the old bow, tough possum took 3 arrows before dyin

 

[Anonymous-0]

ha ha yea old i've been off this site for a couple weeks, my computer tower went bad and took a couple weeks to get a new one fired up. Takes me awhile to go into the "big" town. I did see your book is making you famous ha ha. What the heck are you doing up this late...early anyways ha ha.

 

[da-bees]

You fellers better save your amo,every round will be valuable when the buggy man compenscates guns and regulates amo sales. Better still,just get a head start on things by skinning and freezing the possums to eat instead of standing in gubment soup line one of these days. LOL I couldn't help myself. Ok here is 100% sudden death. First sull the varmit unless the dogs have done it for you. Lay a strong stick/pipe/rod across back of neck with his chin flat on ground. Stand on each end of stick and give his tail a tug 90% straight up. POP gos his neck and it will stretch a bit severing spinal cord. I did it hundereds of times starting at 10 years of age and it never failed once. Made more money selling hides than picking cotton. Ok class,a little trivia regarding the little marsupial. There has never been a confirmed case that I can find of rabies in a possum. Ok can we stop all the night time gun fire and get some sleep?

 

[chrisinsoky]

thats how we kill chickens for the feezer

 

[charles(mo)]

First sull the varmit

OK, How does a person go about doing this?

 

[DH in Carolina]

Shoot it!!!!!!!!

 

[fixerupper]

A big active hunting dog might help. I live along a creek and used to have a steady population of coons and possums till I got a big chocolate lab. Haven't seen a coon or possum for a couple of years now that he's roaming the farm. Jim

 

[glennster]

shotgun is prolly a better choice to put em down. the neighbors dog got in to it with one years ago. i put 5 rounds in it at close range with my .45 acp colt. they were hollow points. first few rounds just seemed to make him madder.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Stepped out on the back porch and was shocked to see one eating the food out of the cats dish right at my feet. It just kept eating. Must have been real hungry.

 

[railhead]

hitting it with anything will "sull" it. That is a nervous condition they have, said to be a defensive tactic. When you hit them or scare them, they act dead, remain motionless or "play opossum".

 

[Kruse]

A couple of years ago, I went outside and I fed my chickens at 5:00 in the morning. I picked up the feed bag and as I walked over to open the the pen, an opossum jumped out of the bag and ran off. Being 3/4 asleep yet, it scared the living h*ll out of me. The worst part of it was that my two "guard dogs" were sleeping about 20 yards away.....downwind from all this. You would have thought they at least would have smelled the panhandler. I guess the possum was so hungry that he was eating chicken feed. I guess that was better than eating chickens.

 

[scott#2]

Times are tough, they'll do things now that they usually wont do. I caught a 7 pounder in the hawk mew the other night that managed to squeeze through 2 by 4 inch wire if you can believe it, they are quite crafty. If you have anything laying around that they can eat, all their buddies will show up for dinner too. If you want to have some fun, put a heap of food out in a wire mesh container they can just fit into, in a clear shot area and set up around 11 pm, it'll be like shooting fish in a barrell.

I used to hunt my jacks on rats in the pigeon coop. Throw a couple 6 foot sections of 4 inch pvc pipe in the coop and they'll nest up in them. Kick the tunnels in around the coop, throw the dogs in and dump the pipes, what a show. Make sure you tuck your pant legs in, nothing like grabbing one through you jeans as it's headed for you know where!

scott#2

 

[JR.Frye]

A 410 with #6 shot will do fine job head shot/ shoulder shot end of story.
JR.Frye

 

[PJH]

I'da shot a hole in the roof. . .

Paul

 

[charles(mo)]

Thanks Railhead. I knew possums did this, but I never knew the name for it.

btw, I did a google search for the word "sull" and didn't get the connection. Plus, I checked Webster's, wikipedia and one other source. Same results, nothing about "playing possum".

 

[old]

22 and a opossum point blank range is about the only way and even then you never know. If in a trap it is easy to kill one but then it is also not able to do much. BTDT many times as has my mom and she has a 22 pistol and a 22 rifle she shoots them with but we do not use hole points since they can fragment to much

 

[Dusty MI]

Seams like I read once that the Opossum is the oldest living mammal.

I once went to reach into a chicken nest while gathering eggs and there was a possum in it.

Dusty

 

[railhead]

I looked in the dictionary as well, it is not in there. I heard my Granddad say it once when he beat one with a stick. Maybe it was just old country speak???

 

[charles(mo)]

Maybe so. But it is a poor day when you don't learn something.

 

[Brian Jasper co. Ia]

Vern, they'll do that. The old pot I feed the cats here has a .22 hole in it from plugging one.

 

[Brian Jasper co. Ia]

12 gauge #6 bird shot drops them in their tracks.

 

[Flurette Farm]

I'm a little surprised. What's the problem with a couple possums or is it some of you guys just like to shot things?
Small possum verses 12 gage, 357, is that some kind of sport?

 

[GA Dave]

Leave the "O" off. David.......................

http://www.google.com/search?source...WYA_enUS330US330&q=playing+possum+meaning

 

[Goose]

I thought I was the only one that had done that. I also once put a round through my good aluminum scoop shooting at a skunk one night.

My neighbors are used to a little occasional gunfire around my place.

 

[Spook]

My dogs make pretty short work of possums. Little messy, possum parts all over....