Insurgent 'possum eliminated

[shibumiseeker]

skunks are my threat

Yeah. Wait until you catch one in the live trap on the porch. NOW what do you do?


(I put a plastic sheet over the trap, carried it a hundred yards downwind of the house and shot it in the trap from 50' with a .22. Then emptied the trap and left it downwind of the house for a month)

 

[schafe]

There is an opossum season? They are oversized rats, and when we see one, we eliminate the threat.

Sure, but they're always in season when the weapon of choice is a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo.

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

If you guys ever trap a skunk or whatever and have to kill it for self-defense, be sure to save me the hide or the animal! I'll come pick it up if you aren't too far away.

 

[shibumiseeker]

If you guys ever trap a skunk or whatever and have to kill it for self-defense, be sure to save me the hide or the animal! I'll come pick it up if you aren't too far away.

Seriously? What's too far away? I'm over 2 hours from Indy.

I didn't know the hide was worth anything.

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

One man's trash is another's treasure. I'm on the north side of Carmel, so you're a little far away haha. It likely wouldn't bring too much (around $5 or so) but I've got a collection going, and the last skunk I killed in our chicken coop was too mutilated to salvage much of the hide...

 

[hunter_47443]

My biggest problem is with muskrats.
But they DO make a pretty red spray when they meet up with a 150 grain softpoint out of a .308
I shoot them when they are on the edge of the bank, wouldn't want any bullets bouncing off the water, now do we.
Overkill, I don't think so.....makes them the right serving size for my catfish!!

 

[hunter_47443]

My biggest problem is with muskrats.
But they DO make a pretty red spray when they meet up with a 150 grain softpoint out of a .308
I shoot them when they are on the edge of the bank, wouldn't want any bullets bouncing off the water, now do we.
Overkill, I don't think so.....makes them the right serving size for my catfish!!

Got two more today.....used the .204 this time!!

 

[jblomenberg16]

Got two more today.....used the .204 this time!!

 

[shibumiseeker]

Last time I used my 10mm for muskrat. I don't have to worry about skip, my lake is private in a deep valley and surrounded by trees and a lot of distance to anything else at all. I get beavers swimming by using a .22-250. It's a challenge since there's about an inch of target above the waterline and maybe 4-5 inches wide, and it's moving. Distance is from 50-250' generally.