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Old 10-26-2005 | 06:48 AM
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Default RE: would you shoot a possum

I was hunting PA Saturday evening in the downpour just a few hundred yards in the woods from my parents barn. They have LOTS of problems with them getting into the barn and eating grain, bothering the barn cats, eating the chicken's eggs, etc. My dad kills probably one a month in there with a huge pry bar he has in the barn. I had a huge possum come in slowly just before dark heading towards the barn, and after pulling the rules and regulations manual out of my backpack and flilpping through to see it was legal, I decided to shoot him.By time I realized he was legal, he was at about35 yards and I decided if I could hit him at that distance, he deserved to die.........lol. I waxed him right behind the shoulder with a field tip. Unfortunately I wrecked the insert end of the arrow when it hit a rock burying itself into the mud under him, but that is one less possum to steal eggs from the barn.
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