Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living got an opossum around - need some information

Why is it when the subject of 'possums and RWE come up I get a mental image of this:

That's the best hunting story I've heard in a while.

The hell with possums, somebody needs to shoot that damn whistle pig up there in Punxsutawney, PA. The bastrd is calling for 6 more weeks of winter.

Well, I don't know that a guy can have too much fun imbibing at deer camp but you must have been approaching it...:)

They clean things up and provide sport for the dog so I let them be. Sometimes the dog can get two or three crunch sessions out of them if they play dead fast enough...appears he doesn't like the taste either. The younger dog however, is merciless. I found three dead ones cutting wood last week.They are about as quick as an earthworm...amazing they survive at all.

When the kids were very little I put a pair of gloves to grab and shake one when convenient at the bird feeder and then pose him in his "dead" state for my wife to point out to the kids through the window--like sitting with a coffee cup stuff (my wife's coffeecup, not mine).

The little ones don't seem to do the play dead thing and get toothy.

I think I've tried eatin about everything we grow down here in the south, but I draw the line on possum...

I've been told by Dad (they had to eat them during the depression), that you have to pen them and feed them out, or as he put it 'clean them out'.

I might would have tried them at one time, but when you drive up on a dead cow, and see a possum or two 'run out from inside the carcass that's been laying there for a week', that's where I draw the line.

I've been hungry, but not that hungry!

Be like eating a buzzard with hair and a pouch...

I lived about 20 minutes from the hunt area.

So technically, I wasn't at deer camp. I was nestled in my LazyBoy, probably watching Veteran's Day movies I recorded on the VCR...

Deer camp ain't what it used to be, I suppose.

Now that we are down to two of us, a lot of the same creature comforts have appeared...shameful but much appreciated...:) The 78 jeep stands out as the vestige POS on the equipment list.

Interestingly, have never seen a possum there during season that I remember and we don't have have a barmaid, either, due to the estrogen restrictions on the camp after October 1st.

My dad and granddad used to possum hunt with hounds back during the Great Depression. They would catch them live, and sell them to the local Blacks. My daddy said he'd caught too many in dead horses and cows to ever want to eat one himself. I agree.

Trapping my place, I have to clear out possums to get to
the cool stuff. Possums = Buzzard food.

That's what I do with them too!

Those buzzards turn 'em inside out in a few hours too!... Just like a sock. With bones!

Nasty