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Well around 10:30 PM looked out the front door and saw 4 Racoons on the porch. 1 mom and 3 young. Grabbed the 410 and tried to get them. My have hit mom but not sure but know she did a bunch of yelling. Did get 2 of the young ones but also took out part of a board on the porch. Shot 4 times and know for sure I got 2 but the 2 I got was with one shot. Oh well the 410 is by the door right now.
 
Well, isn't that what the vice president said? Something about goin' out on the porch and firing a volley?
 
Racoons are tough.I used a 50 cal flint lock on the last one.410 aint enough gun, just makes them growl at you.
 
Hitting you porch reminds me of last fall. I came home and saw a big coon by the front porch. I shoved the clip in my 22 auto and emptied it, I never was a good shot. The next morning my wife started raising heck. She said I shot a hole into her little pumpkin flag she had in the flower bed by the porch.
 
That's what they say about rattlesnake meat. Only thing I've found that tastes like chicken is a C H I C K E N !

Seriously, are racoons edible? or is the meat tough like a Jackrabbit.
 
It just stuck with me, makes no sense, cannot believe our VP would make a statement like that, then again, what else is new in Washington LOL !
 
At least you are hitting some of your targets. Darned woodchucks have me surrounded, but the fence is secure and the grass cut short, all the trimming done, weed whackin or what have you, thats when you have to watch for em once the forage is cut or it gets dry. Well there's plenty of purslane, that edible weed in the corn patch, and he seems to go for that, which is fine, they love the top of pigweed for some reason, he's still getting warning shots but not by intention LOL ! Just received a new extractor and front blade sight, better watch out 'chucky ! LOL !

Even with all that, I've just never really disliked the 'chuck, for what they are, I tolerate them to a point and do what I have to, but raccoons, however zero tolerance.
 
My Aunt and Uncle had a grand opening for their
Tavern, featuring "Coonburgers" They had to cook,
(heat and cool) it several times, to get all of
the fat off the top. With some barbque sauce,the
sandwhich's were pretty good !
 
Possums are scavengers they will eat anything. A friend was hunting with a group of guys and as they were leaving the woods they passed by a dead cow that was bloated up real big. Well one guy shot it and a possum crawled out of it all slimy and nasty. Therefore I wouldn't eat possum stew!
 
Ya been playing cat and mouse with ground hogs this year. Been seeing a good many but 99% of the time no gun in hand and when I can get to the gun they make small targets out at 50 yards with a 22 with no scope. Had one the other day so close if I had, had a bat or some such thing I could have killed it with a stick
 
They are always on the watch, I had a friendly non trouble maker under the front porch for 8 years, he was something else, but even while feeding him, he was always scanning around, he could see the neighbors dog 150+ yards away. The funny thing about it, in all those years I never had trouble with any woodchucks at all, even him. In the beginning, the upper garden was not even fenced, no chuck's, rabbits and no deer browsing etc. Must be the population increased quite a bit, soon as its planted, if the fence does not go up, it will get hit immediately.

When I see one here, I can open the back door slowly and rest up, or leave a screen out of a window, keep the track lubed with silcone to keep it quiet, but you can't be making any noise or have been outside for awhile, elusive they are !
 
Couldn't get to the gun fast enough. This is the sight just outside our picture window at 5pm.
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Yes, you can eat coon meat. There are a few glands within the layers of muscle that must be removed and to me the flavor is better with all the little pieces of fat removed as well. BT
 
Ugh! Reminds me of a couple or years ago, my wife had just bought a brand new ($70) ice cooler to bring cold stuff home from the store without items melting in the summer... think yummy ice cream. Well said ice chest was sitting on the back porch and a opossum was making friendly with it about 10pm one night. I heard the commotion and grabbed my 22 pistol revolver (9 shot). Threw on the back lights and took careful (yeah right) aim and promptly shot said opossum. I chased it around the backyard a time or two and eventually plugged it enough to kill it. Bunch of little opossums came out of the pouch btw. Should kept one to raise, knew a guy that did that once, said it made a good pet and would ride around on his shoulder everywhere. I disposed of said opossum in the woods behind the house and everything was Jim Dandy...except for the next morning! My dear red headed wife came in boiling mad about 6 am and disturbed my delicious dream with this blonde...and was yelling something about the new ice chest. I finally figured out that I had shot 2 holes through said ice chest and she was rip roaring mad about it. I did fix it with some epoxy so it still works to date. But my hunt and kill tactics have been called into question by said red head. I am no longer viewed as the great white hunter I once "thought" I was. :oops: Notice I kept using "said" as in witness testimony. I do not admit to above alleged events and wish to plead NOT-Guilty your honor sir. :wink:

The last opossum I killed has scooted up a tree right by my almost new F150. I took careful (yeah right) aim with the trusty 1966 special anniversary (150th) Remington 12Ga and boom. Opossum fell right out the tree and right on my white pickup splattering blood everywhere. Yep, I had to wash my truck right then and there as blood does harm paint. Fun in the dark.
 
You know they say practice makes perfect don't you??? Sort of like my dad years ago with my old 22 bolt action repeater sold back in the day by Sears. He shot a mouse out of a tree at around 30 feet one shot by the way but boy oh boy was that over kill but also the only gun he had on hand
 
Saw a bunch of badgers out Saturday morning. I shot one a couple winters ago, stood by the open truck door, about 20 yards, 12 gauge 3 inch magnum buckshot. The thing looked at me like he was cussing me out about how that stung, then ran down his hole. A friend tells a story about someone he knows got chased into the back of his truck one night, blew half its head off with the 20 gauge, then ended up crawling through the back window, driving away on the flat tire that the badger was still chewing on.
 

Yes. In the older days there weren't all these scoped rifles that came with them. Had to add one if so desired and then they were single power and no ring to twist to adjust the view. The old fellers really knew how to shoot and many of them were in WWI (grandpappy) and WW2 (daddy) and the Korean conflict. They didn't get the fancy scopes and could shoot just fine. I still have an old .30-.30 from Western Auto that my dad bought brand new in the early '60's that has the single powered scope on it (first one I had seen with a scope and I was about 10 at the time)and let me tell you I have downed many a buck with that, on my 80 acres back in the woods. I don't get the need for some fancy adjustable super duper scope unless someone is hunting elk or mountain sheep at 300 or 400 yards or such. WTH, I can either hit the dang deer or not..('bout 75% for me...lol).but a fancy scope ain't going to make that much different than the single powered scope.
 
Ya learned at a young age to steer clear of them when I lives in Leigh NE. Do not have to worry about them down here in Missouri at least not at this time but who know with all the thing going on now days. Shoot we have armadillos now and bears and big cats so what next elephants???
 
I collect a lot of old Military guns and boy oh boy some of them with iron sights are tack drivers. Have a Mosin Nagant 91/30 that if you can see it and you get the meters right it will hit what you want out to 2000 meters or more if you can hold it still enough that is dang is is about 4 foot long to boot and that is with out the bayonet on it. Put the bayonet on and it is about 5 foot 6
 

That is cool. I also have an old .303 that daddy had from before I was born and it has the elevated type of rear wight that has yards (?) on it. I can't hit squat with it thought, kicks like a durn mule (as they use to say). I still remember that we use to go to an old gravel pit and he would shoot his guns prior to hunting season. I (about 5 years old then) just had to shoot that gun and pestered him until he let me. Whoa, I was knocked flat on my tail. Scared me bad...he never flinched when he shot it and I guess I thought I could do the same. lol I do remember him telling me that it had been "sporterized" to a shorter barrel and what not. It's still a good looking gun.
 
Never have liked the Royal Enfield 303 be it 303 or 308. Yep most any old WW2 rifles kick like a mule but boy oh boy do they reach out and knock down what you hit if you can hold them true
 
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