Boudreaux's possum

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Boudreaux sure has a disliking for possums. This is about the 5th he has "treed" this year. He assured me, just a little while ago, there was something under the fish pond liner by the back fence and made a couple of forays under there to make sure. Finally I lifted the side of the liner and found the "booger" he was so upset over. A .38 Special 125 gr Golden Saber with a goodly amount of SR 4756 made short work of the threat and here's the results.

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Possum, the other other white meat. (actually it is). I had possum once, very briney, very salty, it tasted like spam dunked in salt. One little fact on those things, possums have 52 teeth in that head, more than any animal in North America, and most have a disposition to want to use it.
 
Nope, coyote bait!

BTW, here's Boudreaux (Boo-drow) when he was just a pup.

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He's about beagle size now and not a bit gun shy.
 
With that light of bullet Paul are you sure he ain't just a playin 'possom?

I've had a little one do that when trapped, fainted or whatever they do. He became a really easy target at that point though!
 
When I was growing up my Dad sported an "Eat more Possum" license plate on the front of his pick-up.

Yes, we are rednecks.
 
I saved this photo from another poster a few years ago. Apparently grilling with the hair on enhances flavor:)

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Whomever put that possum on the grill like that obviously has no wife, no girlfriend or any other woman in his life. My better half would have shot me with whatever I killed the possum with for putting it on her grill!
 
I don't bother to shoot opossum unless they've been injured. As someone else pointed out they don't taste very good so hunting them is a waste unless I was really hungry. Also they are migratory and will usually only stick around for a few days. While they are here the most damage they do is eat the grubs and such that live in the mulch and compost piles.

I know it looks scarey when one opens its mouth and hisses but it's just a threat display -- opossums very rarely bite. It's not that they're not aggressiveness, it's just that they're too stupid to even manage to bite. I've grabbed a couple while wearing heavy gloves and all the suckers did was hiss with their mouth agape. Didn't even try to bite. I suppose if one did accidentally bite me it would be infectious -- they dont exactly brush and floss regularly -- but their body temperature is too low to support rabies.
 
I grew up in southern MO. so we ate about everything. At a aftermatch BBQ another shooter asked me what possum tasted like , I replied that it was alot greasier than racoon. She looked at me kinda funny and said that really didnt give her any point of reference. Nobody ate any of my crock pot food after that.
 
How do you guys do your possum innards???

Hand slung and creek washed, stump whipped, or dog pulled & deep fried? :rolleyes:

Possum innards....It's whats for dinner! :D:D:D
 
....another shooter asked me what possum tasted like , I replied that it was alot greasier than racoon. She looked at me kinda funny and said that really didnt give her any point of reference.
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Thanks CALREB - I needed a laugh!
 
Too many people think possums are harmless, but you know better if you raise any poultry.

Prey: Omnivorous. Eats carrion, poultry, eggs, insects, snails, rodents, berries, fruit, grass, snakes, frogs, birds, small mammals, cat and dog food.
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It's the egg and chicken eating that makes them undesirable around the farm, so they just have to go and that doesn't mean making groceries out of a carrion eater.
 
Late at night a couple years ago I heard a ruckus on the back porch which obviously involved our mother cat. Expecting to find a tom cat after the kittens I opened the back door 32 J frame in hand. Much to my surprise a pair of opossum had backed the mother cat into a corner where she was straddling the kittens. Apparently 32 S&W Long wadcutters work as well as 38 Special 125's on vermin.
 
The fellas I worked with in North Carolina, back in the 90's, told me how to "fix" possum. They said they "ketch 'em" (don't ask me how). Then they cage them for about a week, feeding them on stuff like old lettuce, and other vegetables, even cooked corn and some fish worms thrown in once in awhile. This "cleans 'em out". They then butcher 'em and stew 'em and eat 'em. They cringed at the idea of fixin possum without "cleanin' em out". Don't any of you guys down South know about this? Were they pulling an old yankee's leg?
 
I suppose that method is supposed to make chitterlings (chitlin's) edible too? I don't think so!
 
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