would you shoot a possum
 

just kinda curious cause i see a couple to day and just about shot one,,kinda good thing i didnt cause possum season dont open till nov. 5 but when it does and possum or coon that walks my way may get shot at.

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If it was a slow day I would but I usually dont see them in the woods. Just sticking to the road on some occasions.

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Probably not. Not because I wouldn't get a kick out of it if I tried, but I just don't see the point. You have to either resharpen or replace your broadhead blades now and for what......a possum? Nah.....

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We don't have any possum up here. I wouldn't shoot at a coon but I would shoot a fisher, we have too many and I figure thats why we rarely see any rabbits.

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I probably would as long as I had an arrow to waste with a blunt point on it.Seeing oppossum and raccoon at day time is a bad sign and they may have distemper or rabies. Both of those animals are mostly nocturnal. That said, when I've seen a couple of raccoon roosted in a tree on occasion and I have not shot at them because I didn't want to spoil my hunt. ;)

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I let them go. Saw one this past weekend and just watched him go about his business about 10 yards from my stand. It was cool to watch him climb a tree then hang from his tail.

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What he said.

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What would you do with it after you got it? :eek: Or maybe its just an ego builder.

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WHY ? Unless you are going to eat it

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I'd let it walk. I get more entertainment from just watching. The only way I would would be if I hunted a farmers land and the owner mentioned that the animal was becoming a problem.

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Not wasting an arrow on a possum. Rather pointless.

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Our local game biologist told me that we need to eliminate a number of coons, skunks, possum,etc. as they are nest destroyers and are one of the reasons for low quail numbers. My trail cameras indicate a LARGE number of coons as well as possums. Per the KDWP it is legal to kill them as a prediator as long as you don't do anything w/ them afterwards, such as selling the hide. I have not had the opprotunity yet, but given it I will take them out.

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Yup, I'd take it out. Was hoping to get one the other day, but it never presented a shot to me under an apple tree. Resharpening a blade to me is nothing that 5 minutes can't fix.

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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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If I don't eat it I don't kill it. With the exception of foxes and coyotes, too many of them on the land I hunt and the landowner has told me to take 'em out. I have heard of people eeatind opossum before though. I heard it was real greasy[:'(]

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Right on turtleshell! The only addition I would make to and animal I kill and do not eat is a bobcat! However I will kill a opossum if it getting into my feed barn and/or trash! But not while I am hunting!!!!

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I wouldn't shoot a possum, but I almost shot a raccoon a few years ago. 10 yards away, and when I drew he busted me. I would shoot furbearers.

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Possum, probably not. Armadillo, every time. I keep an old arrow and practice broadhead in my quiver at all times for squirrels and dillers. Racoons and Possums would almost certainly get a pass. Bobcat or Yote will get a good arrow and broadhead.
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Hank

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I'll kill it if it's in season. I can find a use for pretty much anyhting I kill.

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If you had asked me this question about 5 years ago I would have said no but since I've talked to a lot of people who say we have possum and raccoon problems in my hunting area I've killed a few especially possums since they're open season like hogs up here. Possums and raccoon have a tendency to kill off my favorite game bird to hunt....aka the grouse.... so I have a bit of fun trying to whack em with a blunt tip whenever I see a possum. Raccoons you gotta have a small game license and with the amount of them I see and kill every year its well worth it. Ohh by the way if you grind up and cook your possums you can feed them to your dogs.

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If it presented a shot, was in season (of course, we've got to be legal here) and wasn't providing sufficient entertainment otherwise (I find it hard to shoot at things I'm also laughing at), it would be stew meat.

Come to think of it, that goes for pretty much everything I encounter:D

We had one on the porch the other night. The things are either fearless or stupid but probably a bit of both. It was a young one that didn't seem to mind getting whacked with a broom while it hid underneath my gas grill.
(NB> Don't shoot at things under your gas grill )