possum killer

[PresTx82]

Dewi,

It's a cultural thing I guess. My brother and I used to traget practice (hunt) small squirrels with .22 rifles when we were kids. We made great squirrel stew!

[planovet]

Dewi,

It's a cultural thing I guess. My brother and I used to traget practice (hunt) small squirrels with .22 rifles when we were kids. We made great squirrel stew!

No Mark, it's a Texas thing

[Dewi]

Dewi,

It's a cultural thing I guess. My brother and I used to traget practice (hunt) small squirrels with .22 rifles when we were kids. We made great squirrel stew!

I see what you're saying, but my teenage years during the summers I used to bivvy up in the hills, catch rabbits and cook them along with a nettle tea for a brew... granted, I needed repeated toilet breaks for a week when I came back home, but all the rabbits were caught using bits of wire and some nifty placement on the runs.

Very much like target practise... spent hours shooting at tin cans and probably ten times longer with a bow n arrow... just wondering about the whole possum/squirrel/general little rodent problem... is it as much about the sport as getting rid of the pest problem?

Cheers, Dewi

[madjack]

...possums and armadillos are rodents and pests...squirrels and rabbits are supper ...........

[MidTNJasonF]

Actually many people who hunt consider a hunting with a firearm more humane than trapping. If you are going to hunt wild game for food as well as the personal enjoyment of the activity and you are a skilled hunter your shot will be well placed. It will be a much faster and less traumatic death for the game than many trapping methods.

I have never shot or trapped any animals. I did not grow up around hunting. I grew up on military bases where firearms were a tool of the job. There were no guns in my home but my father was required to practice and qualify frequently at the range. He was an expert ranked shooter but only took me to the range a few times to teach me how to properly handle and respect guns. He took me to a couple VFW turkey shoots when I was a kid as well.

I came to be a bit of a "gun nut" if you will later in life when I began first by participating in target based shooting sports and later came to be a firearms maker by trade.

[CAJUN LADY]

...possums and armadillos are rodents and pests...squirrels and rabbits are supper :D ...........

[Steve_Cox]

I've got no problem's with personal fire power myself, but I get a kick out of building live traps for squirrels, raccoons, possums, gophers etc. I relocate them to a certain gated community close by. Actually only one yard in that gated community.

Mad one, Nice rifle

[PresTx82]

I wonder if the early Americans thought about which way to hunt was humane when finding dinner?

[madjack]

Steve, that's just evil...I LOVE IT...I know of a "special" place to free the little critters
madjack

[Miriam C.]

I know I'm English and the closest we come to with guns is a water pistol or a limp wristed catapult combining the uesfulness of a clothes peg and an elastic band, but I've caught rabbits and stuff whilst out camping... isn't it more efficent to catch critters in traps than to shoot them?

I'm not being all namby pamby or anti-gun... spent time with my father using hand guns and rifles (he lives in Canada) but for anything smaller than a pig, a gun seems a bit overkill for the task... unless there are some intelligent rodents who don't fall for snares over there?

Cheers, Dewi

If it lives it can bite. Rodent bites are a good reason for over whelming force.......

MJ I have eaten a properly prepared possum and it taste just like duck. A bit oily for me, but the apricot glaze was to die for.

[madjack]

Auntie, I have tried possum, coon, armadillo and nutria...and I still don't like duck ...........................

[Nitetimes]

Auntie, I have tried possum, coon, armadillo and nutria...and I still don't like duck ...........................

I have been hearing the name nutria for some time and had no idea what it was.... damn internet is handy!! It looks to me like an over grown muskrat and I haven't got a clue why anyone would want to eat that other than absolute emergency. Around here we call those water rats, another animal I have no interest in consuming. I'd probably try armadillo if it was there but I've never had a reason to eat coon, trapped lots of them and always threw the carcasses out for the foxes and possums. Hmmm, trap coon....make money.....buy food so I don't have to eat coon.....

[madjack]

Auntie, I have tried possum, coon, armadillo and nutria...and I still don't like duck ...........................

I have been hearing the name nutria for some time and had no idea what it was.... damn internet is handy!! It looks to me like an over grown muskrat and I haven't got a clue why anyone would want to eat that other than absolute emergency. Around here we call those water rats, another animal I have no interest in consuming. I'd probably try armadillo if it was there but I've never had a reason to eat coon, trapped lots of them and always threw the carcasses out for the foxes and possums. Hmmm, trap coon....make money.....buy food so I don't have to eat coon.....

Rich a couple of years ago at the BIG HOUSE, Angola State Prison, they decided to serve nutria to the prisoners on a regular basis...HAH...that lasted about a week before the population exploded
madjack

p.s. you haven't lived until you have tried armadillo on the half shell...mmm mmm mmm

[Nitetimes]

Auntie, I have tried possum, coon, armadillo and nutria...and I still don't like duck ...........................

I have been hearing the name nutria for some time and had no idea what it was.... damn internet is handy!! It looks to me like an over grown muskrat and I haven't got a clue why anyone would want to eat that other than absolute emergency. Around here we call those water rats, another animal I have no interest in consuming. I'd probably try armadillo if it was there but I've never had a reason to eat coon, trapped lots of them and always threw the carcasses out for the foxes and possums. Hmmm, trap coon....make money.....buy food so I don't have to eat coon.....

Rich a couple of years ago at the BIG HOUSE, Angola State Prison, they decided to serve nutria to the prisoners on a regular basis...HAH...that lasted about a week before the population exploded
madjack

p.s. you haven't lived until you have tried armadillo on the half shell...mmm mmm mmm

Good stuff huh?? I ran over a few while I was in NM but never thought to stop and pick one up. It was kinda like running over a snapping turtle if I remember right, but the snapper won't be dead....pi$$ed off maybe but certainly not dead!! At least not until I get him home and the water boiling!!!

[Geron]

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