Thread: Possum fur

Originally Posted by caberslash

Great to see this happening, sadly PETA killed the fox fur market in the UK long ago.

Are you guys using thermals for the most part to spot or just using lamps?

Same here. Those of us that did possums for complete furs back in the 70's early 80's were getting upwards of $25/skin for AAA grade at the height of the market. That would have to be close to $50/skin in todays money. It was a great lark for a young dude. Fantastic life style and excellent $ reward for those of us that enjoyed that sort of thing.

Whilst a digital night vision scope is great in open country for bunnies/hares etc, I have found that up close in Pine forests the pine needles reflect too much IR light and wash out the view of the possum. That, and 6.5 power is not really your friend at 10-25m A low powered spotlight and low mag scope was all we ever used in the 70's, and we shot thousands of the buggers. Ruined quite a bit of clothing too, with battery acid down your back!!!

Originally Posted by XR500

Same here. Those of us that did possums for complete furs back in the 70's early 80's were getting upwards of $25/skin for AAA grade at the height of the market. That would have to be close to $50/skin in todays money. It was a great lark for a young dude. Fantastic life style and excellent $ reward for those of us that enjoyed that sort of thing.

Whilst a digital night vision scope is great in open country for bunnies/hares etc, I have found that up close in Pine forests the pine needles reflect too much IR light and wash out the view of the possum. That, and 6.5 power is not really your friend at 10-25m A low powered spotlight and low mag scope was all we ever used in the 70's, and we shot thousands of the buggers. Ruined quite a bit of clothing too, with battery acid down your back!!!

And don't forget there was probably no girlfriend to spend your $25 per skin. Because you reeked like possum fat and no chick in her right mind would hang around. Or if you did find one who was in to possums she usually reeked of possum fat and you didn't want to be anywhere near her.