Possum problem, need tips on hunting at night w/o night equipment

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Vetmx said:
Lotta anger on the forum lately. Must be crappy windy weather everywhere and nobody can shoot. So we come here to fight.
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I noticed that too. Damn near every thread has some bickering going on. Maybe time to step away for awhile. Thats the main reason I don't have any SM, only post on here and the occasional YT comment.
 
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Vetmx said:
Lotta anger on the forum lately. Must be crappy windy weather everywhere and nobody can shoot. So we come here to fight.
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It seems that alot of people think that any opinion other than theirs can't possibly be correct and having another opinion, other than theirs, is somehow a personal attack or wrong. There was a time when someone else's opinion, was just that, a different opinion, no more and no less and people were allowed to actually have a different one. But now in our thin skinned world...you're not allowed to have a different view or opinion, other than theirs...or they take it personal....put on the big boy pants and grow the ×××× up. It's not personal, it's a opinion.
 
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Richieg said:
It seems that alot of people think that any opinion other than theirs can't possibly be correct and having another opinion, other than theirs, is somehow a personal attack or wrong. There was a time when someone else's opinion, was just that, a different opinion, no more and no less and people were allowed to actually have a different one. But now in our thin skinned world...you're not allowed to have a different view or opinion, other than theirs...or they take it personal....put on the big boy pants and grow the ×××× up. It's not personal, it's a opinion.
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The thing is people always think it.......now they can "say" it on the internet from the comfort of their own homes.
 
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L.Leon said:
Yes, so all you shooters living and shooting in warmer climates and conditions. Send out some good shooting thoughts to your winter bound brethren.
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If you can use a camera or motion detector to alert you to movement its helpful. I also have motion detection lights. I can sometimes see those lights start up from different places. Then I'm alerted. I'm being vague because there are several cameras, lights and situations where these are helpful and different products out there. It's really great with all the modern technology options available today compared to 20 years ago.

Possums like to do cleanup crew work. Leave skwirrel bodies for them to chew on
 
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JimD said:
Many years ago I had a summer job while in college mowing overgrown lots in Kansas City Missouri with a small Ford tractor with a brush hog on it. We went out as two person teams with a helper using a manual weed whip to trim what the tractor could not get. I would put my weed whipper on the tractor and do his job sometimes so he didn't get tired and we could keep going and get bonus by mowing a lot of square feet. One day my whipper was finishing up a large lot and came flying across the lot in top gear wanting me to look at the worlds largest rat. He was a city guy and had never seen a possum. The possum must have been sleeping in the weeds and gradually moved towards the center until it got too small and he made a run for it. It was a good laugh.

I had an uncle growing up that kept coon dogs and would run them at night to try and get enough skins to pay for the feed for the dogs. If we were lucky we would get to go out with him. Mothers did not appreciate the damage to clothes and skin from running through the woods at night. We saw more possums than coons. Another uncle would climb hollow trees and grab either with a welders glove on his hand and throw them down to the dogs. Good old days.
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Possums are good for the environment
 
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JimD said:
Many years ago I had a summer job while in college mowing overgrown lots in Kansas City Missouri with a small Ford tractor with a brush hog on it. We went out as two person teams with a helper using a manual weed whip to trim what the tractor could not get. I would put my weed whipper on the tractor and do his job sometimes so he didn't get tired and we could keep going and get bonus by mowing a lot of square feet. One day my whipper was finishing up a large lot and came flying across the lot in top gear wanting me to look at the worlds largest rat. He was a city guy and had never seen a possum. The possum must have been sleeping in the weeds and gradually moved towards the center until it got too small and he made a run for it. It was a good laugh.

I had an uncle growing up that kept coon dogs and would run them at night to try and get enough skins to pay for the feed for the dogs. If we were lucky we would get to go out with him. Mothers did not appreciate the damage to clothes and skin from running through the woods at night. We saw more possums than coons. Another uncle would climb hollow trees and grab either with a welders glove on his hand and throw them down to the dogs. Good old days.
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You are right Jim, You just haven't had a proper raising less you been on a full moon coon hunt.
 
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