I'm amazed that a CCI sub HP to the chest doesn't always cause a possum to fall out of a tree. You would have thought that 80 - 100ftlb energy would do the trick.
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:23 PM
Yup shotguns work well. What else works well is a rossi 357 L/A 16" barrel with 125gr hollowpoints. Love that little gun and carried it everywhere. Nailed a possum one night looking down on me...
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:23 PM
Angus uses segmented sub. But you could try Winchester power points or see if there is a higher grain 22 bullet than 42 grains I commonly see Sent from my TA-1024 using Tapatalk
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:23 PM
Using Thermal Hand held and finishing off with Maxtoch or Olight torch mounted a top of scope with quick release weaver rail Amazing how many Possums you see that you wont see with light, and Rats -...
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:23 PM
go after em when theres a horny breeding doe about -the bucks make a hell of a racket as they scrap for her favours-shine a torch on em and theyllsnarl right back!.22delivers a nice terminal...
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:23 PM
True what you say about scope magnification Ultimitsu, I also use more powerful scopes than most for possum, rabbit and pest birds. I’ve never got on with fixed power scopes and definitely not open...
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:22 PM
Hi there, I have done quite a bit of possum shooting as a hobbyist, this is what I have to to share: 1. they do not seem to come out in high numbers early in the night, larger numbers usually a...
Liked On: 14-06-2018, 02:22 PM
This may help to target area's.... 89155 :thumbsup:
Liked On: 11-06-2018, 02:39 PM
Was in Fairlie for the long weekend and hadn't been even for a proper walk for a few weeks so was getting a bit desperate to escape into the hills somewhere, work to be done around house Saturday, so...
Liked On: 06-06-2018, 10:33 AM
My two Staffordshires have telepathic powers and can read my mind. The very second I’ve seen a possum up a tree, before I’ve had a chance to say the word they rush over to the base of the trunk and...
Liked On: 05-06-2018, 10:58 AM
Had one I hough was dead, plucked it and tossed sit in the ute canopy to go home to the pigs, 10mins down the road all hell broke loose.... Poor bastard had woken up with no coat on :thumbsup:
Liked On: 03-06-2018, 10:17 AM
ahh bugger. I try to kill them before I pick them up lol hopes he's ok but a spose no possum will be safe from the lad now. righto possums paybacks a bitch....
Liked On: 02-06-2018, 01:17 PM
I learnt my lesson when about 7 Put my finger in one of those cage traps Possum locked on and would not let go - teeth all the way into finger Very sore for a week :-(
Liked On: 02-06-2018, 01:01 PM
Pete_D Luminous paint only glows while there's UV light shining on it, so slightly useful at dusk, but useless 1 hour after dark. Try glow-in-the-dark paint, or cutouts from glow-in-the-dark...
Liked On: 31-05-2018, 11:50 PM
Take a shotty for back up , open sighted .22 will be hard yakka especially in the likes of macrocarpa or large natives were you can only see an eye , that said my old man grows passion fruit with...
Liked On: 31-05-2018, 11:50 PM