Thread: Shooting Possums in trees

I've used a .22 air rifle on possums, mainly shot em between the eyes. Dead as a dodo.

Lately magpies have been teasing me when I have my 17hmr, in places where if I missed the bullet would go miles. I haven't risked it.
I like to take shots at animals in trees where there is the trunk or a crap tonne of branches behind them. That way of I do miss I can be certain the bullet wont go off in the distance.

Hi,i do most of my shooting possie close t farm buildings,either 410 or 44mag with shotshells,the 44mag only tickles them and usually they fall on the dog when they let go then its the boot

Jeez, that sounds bloody awful. A possum is after all a living,feeling animal and as such it should be afforded a humane death, if you must kill it.