Thread: The Oldies possum trapping again

I was wondering when you guys would hit the possums again.

I have been picking away at a couple of blocks and done about 10kg

Just doing one now where I'm getting $1 / trap / night as a top up from the land owner.
They want me to go to quite a low catch % hence the payment

I need to get back into a pine forest

@MrsBeeman @Mooseman and myself into again. 39 possums plucked a couple of hedgehogs and one rat dealt to. @Mooseman had a run in with my dog this morning but I have them back on talking terms. one quail egg eater sorted. lunch in the office. Mooseman was lucky to have a leg after picking a fight with my wolf.

The truth is that my dog ( Reba ) got herself slightly caught in a trap and Mooseman tried to set her free, she didn't bite him until he put his knee on her neck because he was afraid she would bite his hand, poor Mooseman, I think he will live.

shite its a hard job telling the dog you aretrying to help when they are screaming in pain...try getting one out of an electric fence. good work on the rats n hedgepiggies.

Tough day. One some low lives didn't get. The risk of road setting in the forest, half a dozen at least traps had been robbed, possums shot and removed, these low lives tried to be honest, they reset one trap. Mooseman and me are going cruising tonight. Watch this spot.

you take care Mate...think twice before doing anything too rash.

Originally Posted by BeeMan

Tough day. Attachment 113665 One some low lives didn't get. The risk of road setting in the forest, half a dozen at least traps had been robbed, possums shot and removed, these low lives tried to be honest, they reset one trap. Mooseman and me are going cruising tonight. Watch this spot.

Its been said before but ill say it again...

"There's a hell of a lot of muppets out there !!"

+1 for be careful. Maybe you should take along that ferocious wolf of yours

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Thanks fullas, we are both wise old men.

Nice just to see who is around.

One night to go, we have over 9kgs of fur to sell and hoping for at least 2kgs tomorrow, over 100 possum bodies to add to our income, looking good. Even get a shopping Friday. .. All good last night. It was like -6, we were the only fools freezing, fingers crossed we get away with tonight.

that possum looks to have a very dense coat....good weight of fur for you. keep up the good work.

Well it's been a busy week, a good number of possums caught so we are all pretty happy. Thanks to Beeman and Mrs Beeman for looking after me over the week.
We certainly had some cold starts at around 0 degress and in the shade the frost remained all day. Cold weather makes for well furred possums so that's the trade off if you are prepared to go for it. Always nice wandering around the traps in the bush, something about the solitude I suppose. At the moment Micky Duck we are averaging 1 kg of fur for 13 possums that is including the odd smaller bodied possums in the mix. Nice to bee home with the feet up and fire going.

I see your white tailed one....do you get what we used to call tazzie devils??? a black possum with the cream markings of a grey....we used to get about 1 in 300 like that around Taumarunui.
best price the old man ever got was $36 for a single skin....it was a big dark possum with a PURPLE hue right through the fur.

Yes we used to get that type of marking / coloration in the Taumarunui area as well, dark on the top or back and silver grey color on the underside we called them " American Style" don't know why we called them that but we did. That is top money for one possum skin, just need several hundred of them.

The end of another fine week. 10kgs of fur and 120 bodies to market. A little Leopard