Had a double header tonight. Plus may have taken the hog

old · Jul 29, 2012

When the wife and I went out to put up the animals she yelled 2 coons. I came a running as fast as I could getting slow now days but hey I try. I was packing the 410 tamer with me single shot but it has a place for extra shells. Popped the first one right between the eyes and the other one right behind the ear. Both where young ones but the wife said I thought the cat food was going to fast guess we found out where it had been going. On a side note this morning I was out and the wood chuck ran by me and I jacked up its butt so I may have given it a lead butt have not seen it since

ShadetreeRet · Jul 29, 2012

If you filled the wood chuck's backside with lead, if it didn't kill it, all that extra weight will sure slow it down!

fixerupper · Jul 29, 2012

Rich, when I was a kid we were sitting outside the house at about dark when we heard a chicken squawking in the chicken house. The 12ga was handy so dad grabbed it an I grabbed the flashlight and away we went to the chicken house. By the time we got there a civet had drug a live chicken out the door and was headed for the cornfield right behind the chicken house. I aimed the light on it and dad shot but he shot toward the back of the civet to save the chicken. After the blast the civet dropped the chicken and took off, leaving it's tail laying there on the ground. By the length of it, it looked like dad shot it off right at the civet's butt. It was right by the corn field and a couple of corn plants were sawed off too. Never saw the civet again. Jim

old · Jul 29, 2012

Well if it slows it down I guess the first shoot just gave it a turbo boost since it sure as heck did not slow down but it sure did do a butt jack up thing as I shot

GeneMO · Jul 30, 2012

My dad always talked about Civet cats, but I have never seen one. We just have regular skunks.

Gene

fixerupper · Jul 30, 2012

They claim civets are extinct today. Haven't seen one for many years. Their spray smells a little different than a skunk and they are smaller than a skunk. When I was a kid I caught one in a trap in the machine shed and the smell didn't go away for a very long time. Jim

RayP(MI) · Jul 30, 2012

Wife came home from work one night, teported that she ran over TWO possums...... To which I replied, "Must have been a mean night at work, HuH?"

Now days, a "two possum nite," around here means it was a pretty tough nite!

old popper · Jul 30, 2012

I hadn't even thought about Civet Cats for years. Back in the 50s we used to have some around the barn pretty regular. I think they made dens back in the baled hay in the loft.

toadady · Jul 30, 2012

we don't garden, but i've got the population down to a crawl, after all the trapping and shooting, I finnaly learned not to dump food scraps after the chickens went to bed, just leave it in a old icecream pail and dump it in the morning, or if not much put it through the garbage disposal, same with the cat feed, wait until morning. last weeks whistle pig was the only thing since spring i've seen.

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