[NailGun]

The Wife and her beloved "barn gun" drew blood again tonight. Another really fat, cat food gorged possum fell to a single shot from this old H&R .22 lr. I got to be the "back up guy" holding the Maglight and her Smith 908. I pressed the on button on the Maglight, and within about one second, she acquired the target, and fired a single shot right into the possum's forehead! WOW! With all that range time, she is getting to be a pretty good shot :) A few days ago, she shot another possum, at the cat feeder. She said that one was tougher and needed four shots in the head to quell its hunger. Got to love a woman that shoots and likes it. :D NailGun

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c363/TwoSilos/possum.jpg

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NailGun,

You just made my day! Be sure to share with your wife I said so.

Old .22 revolvers, and we just had a recent thread about how neat it would be if these were made again.
Barns, dang there is something about barns, sheds and and all...
Ladies..dang ain't nothing like a lady that can shoot, especially one raised and familiar with barns, sheds, and everything else.

I laugh, folks get so wrapped around the axle about what guns for what, and folks do not realize we have had the answers for years...

I would not doubt there is a single shot shotgun with a coffee can of various shells in that barn as well...:)

Thanks for sharing!

Steve

[kungfuhippie]

:) does you wife have a single younger (25ish) sister? Always nice to have a wife willing to defend the barn/home etc. and a great shot as well. I really dislike possums:mad:

[crebralfix]

Nice shot!

Oh, wait...

You evil @$#$%%^! You murdered that poor, innocent possum who was only trying to feed his family! You OWE that possum that food because he lived below the poverty line.

[00blkgt]

Thanks for sharing this event with us and including the picture. You should promptly take her out and buy her something nice... after all she knows how to handle a gun.:D
J

[Gordon]

Love it !:) My wife uses a 20 ga. however.

[NailGun]

00blkgt, After she shot the first possum, she decided that she needed another gun for a reward. Last Saturday, she picked out her Smith 908 (9mm. 8 shot auto). She hasn't bonded or practiced enough with it yet, so she used her H&R .22 on the beast tonight. The possums out here are really large...like panda bears. In WI, they were much smaller, even when feed large quantities of high protein cat food.

Thanks ALL for the positive feedback :)
NailGun.

[saltydog452]

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salty.

[Swamper]

Excellent!!!!
Great little rimfire, greater pastime and the greatest wife!

Life is good.

Swamper

[wooderson]

You should have gotten the head mounted for her for Christmas.

[bpisler]

Great shooting,any chance of making some
possum pie:eek:

[ScottsGT]

Great shooting,any chance of making some
possum pie

I knew Jethro Bodine would chime in sooner or later :neener:

[Sistema1927]

One question: Do the cats lick up the possum blood, or do you they avoid the blood contaminated cat food in the bowl?

[asknight]

Wow! Looks like the .22 blew the possum about 3 feet off of the feed bowl!

Seriously, good shooting..

[Blackfork]

Possums live about three years, max. A two year old possum is an OLD possum. The males have big blocky heads.

I shoot a lot of coons but generally pass on the possums. They may hiss and gape at you but will not even close their jaws on a stick. If you push a little, they play dead.

They do love the cat food, but after a bit they seem to get tired of it and go on to something else.

Coons though, are tough and aggressive characters.

[jondar]

Yes, I always put some cat food out for them. They cause no trouble, unless eating cat food is trouble. My wife says I spend too much money on feeding cats, possums and in some cases coons, but I don't eat out much, got to movies, do drugs, buy hard liquor, chase women, (much) buy expensive cars etc. so I have to have something to spend money on. No es verdad?

[Vern Humphrey]

We have a stone flowerbed right under our bedroom window, and for some reason whip poor wills like to perch there, right under the window and call -- for those who don't know whip poor wills, go to a bird book. Even bird lovers admit whip poor wills call forever.

Every night, they'd wake us up. Now I can sleep, but my wife can't -- so I'd have to go drive the whip poor will off. This got increasingly harded to do -- at first, I'd turn on the porch light and he'd fly. Then I had to open the door. And then go out. Finally I could stand there only a few feet away and cuss him, and he still wouldn't fly.

So I got some rat shot and loaded up my old Stevens #26 Crackshot.

The next morning, my wife said, "Honey, I thought you scared that whip poor will away -- but he's still out there."

And darned if he wasn't -- stiff and cold on the coping.:p

[TWeatherford]

thats the fattest possum I have ever seen. surprising that one shot did it, what was she using?

[TMM]

that's one FAT possum! personally i don't shoot them because they aren't a pest and they're very docile. coons and woodchucks, however, need a few grains of lead.

~tmm

...and i'm suprised you got 'em with only one shot - even woodchucks take about 4 rounds in the head in my experience.[.22]

[Husker1911]

Holy Cow, that's one well (catfood) fed 'possum. Are you sure he's dead? :D

[kungfuhippie]

well that sure trumps the cat in photo 1 bringing you dead mice. "Hey kitty here's a dead possum twice your size, see who's master":neener: