Thread: Possum fur

20000 thousand ish possums in that lot awesome.

You may have miscalculated.
20.28 kg.

Just another tree hugger.

The pine pollen nuggets are out.

It was a wet night for the coon.

Got the fur drying in front of the fire again.

Also noticed branches have been snapped off in the willows now as the buds are just coming out.

Yes, the pines are just on the cusp of pollening up here. Going for a walk through our forest with the ti and 22 just as soon as this rain stops

Originally Posted by Dundee

The pine pollen nuggets are out.
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It was a wet night for the coon.
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Got the fur drying in front of the fire again.
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Also noticed branches have been snapped off in the willows now as the buds are just coming out.

Not sure witch fur will dry 1st Dundee 1 looks like a heat hog

Warming up the socks before I head out again. On yah Max!

Snow had melted but bait was wet,got dry fur today.

I miss my cats....keep your cat safe.

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?

caberslash,mainly trap but just a headlamp for me if I go for a spotlight.

double on the pine.

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.

Leads onto a funny story: Back out of the bush from the Makarora river, almost back home to Palmy and there's a coon on the road, just been sconed by the looks of it. Can't even tell where it had been hit. So into the back seat of the car, drop the trailer with the XR500 and packs off at home and off up town to the Fitz to let our hair down (metaphorically speaking).

Shoved the possum down the front of my swanny and made out to the chics it was my pet possum. Was soon surrounded by swooning girlies. After a wee bit one of the no doubt farm raised girlies cottened on " look at its eyes, its dead!!!" So after being sprung I started swinging it about a bit to scare them off...till the bouncers gave me the look.

Photo for the not too sure types:

When we got REALLY honky we would get the camp oven into water heating duties and take a bath in a hole lined with ferns and a plastic sheet.



You'll note the tree about 2 metres behind the hut that we chopped down. Who builds a hut with a tree that size still standing that close???