Another one bites the dust

old · May 11, 2010

Wife went out to do her morning chores, (milk and feed the goats) Well she opened up the feed box, ( old deep freeze) and she was getting growled at. So she yelled at me. So I went in the house and got the 410 and flash light to go out and see what it was. There was a opossum behind it, the deep freeze that is. Stuck the barrel of the 410 down there and pulled the trigger, (note to self don't forget the ear plugs next time the tack house it small) Well took only 15 minutes or so to get the worse of the ringing to stop, have it 24/7 any how form the navy. But at least that one will not bug my wife again

RayP(MI) · May 11, 2010

Say WHHHHHaaaaaa??

Never discharge a gun in a small closed in area like a building!

JD Seller · May 11, 2010

22 might have been a lot less noisy/messy. LOL I watched my DAd, years ago, shot at a ground hog out a window on the house. He was using my 30.06 and steadied it on the office desk. Did not notice that the barrel was inside of the window. The office he was in ws maybe 8ft square. When he fired it, was a little loud in there. LMAO He still had ringing ears several days later. I don't think he ever fired that gun again.

Goose · May 11, 2010

I know you don't think much of the VA, but, unless you've already done it, if you go at it right you should be able to get 10% disability for the ringing in your ears. See your local Service Rep.

I shot a possum under our deck with a .22 revolver the other night. They can be the stupidest things.

Mike (WA) · May 11, 2010

Old neighbor used to shoot pheasants out his kitchen window- got a little off in his timing once, and his wife called my dad, all excited- "Pete shot the kitchen faucet off, water spraying all over. Come quick!" After he stopped laughing, he reminded her where the well shutoff was.

Anonymous-0 · May 11, 2010

Huh? Whadjasay?

I shot a possum in our greenhouse once, with a little beer-can-chooter .22 revolver. That was pretty loud. Next possum got dragged outside before I shot him in the back of the head Mafia-style.

fixerupper · May 11, 2010

Old, back in my younger days I shot a runt hog with my grandpa's 30-40 Krag, inside the barn. I heard the beginning of a bang and then there was a kind of a silence for a few seconds before the ringing started. My hearing was kind of numb for a couple of days after that. Jim

glennster · May 11, 2010

when we were kids, we had a possum in the basement of the farmhouse (old stone foundation) mom told my older brother to get rid of it but dont shoot in the house. she went for groceries and he shot it with the rifle, then took it outside and stuck an arrow in in. mom was so proud he got it with the bow and arrow, told all the neighbors about it. couple weeks later, she was in the basement and saw where the bullet riccochet"d around the basement took some big chunks out of the stone!!. boy did my brother catch it!!!!

Flurette Farm · May 11, 2010

I don’t understand you guys using howitzers on something as harmless as an opossum. I just grab them by the tail throw them in the back of my truck and haul them down to my neighbors. He’s kind of a junky guy and never knows they are there until they start eating his dog food which is usually all over his porch.

RN · May 11, 2010

inside varmit control - RG24 revolver with .22 short cartridge. For mice- .177 pellet gun or a CBcap in .22 revolver. Keeps ears from ringing. For hissing possum on porch- Kbar. RN

Anonymous-0 · May 11, 2010

Will somebody answer that darn phone LOL Mike

Ole Shovel · May 11, 2010

You should have caught it you just went and blew supper to pieces.

Anonymous-0 · May 11, 2010

Son taught you to shoot a little when he was home huh?????? :shock:

Woulda been more interesting if you'da told us tou got with an ear shot with a pellet rifle at 50 yards cause you didn't wanna ruin the hide or meat.

Instead of....

"There I was........ front porch, 5 AM, possum hind the freezer....wife was scared, I was half neckid, and the possum was mad......grabbed the ole scattergun and took aim..musta been at least 6 inches so I took a deep breath, steadied myself, and got him with a gut shot.........saved the day.... Planning on throwing the freezer away anyhow............

Maybe youghta give that book another look????????????

Dave

cadet trooper · May 11, 2010

Jeez Old you remind me of my brother, he shot a roosting pigeon in our big barn during a pest hunt one night with a sweet 16 put a massive hole in the cedar shake shingles. Same bro shot a rat one night with a 22. in our cellar/part dirt and stone I even ducked and was only seven years old it seemed the slug bounced around forever I was laying on the mud floor mom freaked. Great training for Viet Nam.

Fergienewbee · May 11, 2010

When we lived in town a woodchuck moved under our shed. An ally ran behind the houses and basically separated the back yard on one side of the block from the back yard on the other side. I shot the woodchuck out the kitchen window with a .22. Waited a few minutes and walked out and picked him up and put him in a trash bag. Gun fire wasn"t that unusual in that neighborhood.

Larry in Michigan

JDNewbie · May 11, 2010

Dad told me opossums have thin skulls. Last one I did in I just hit in the head with a shovel. However, I was then left wondering if it was really dead or just playing "possum"!

kyplowboy · May 11, 2010

I will tell one on my wife.

Last fall me and few hired help were unloading tobacco in the barn behind my house. I heard gravel slinging and one of the high school boys said "your wife must really have to go the bathroom, she just came in the drive way side ways, and ran in the house. Nope now she is running back to the car with a gun." I asked which way is she going? Yall might want to hide." He said she is getting in the car and going back down the road. I climbed down out of the barn to see what was going on. She stopped down the road and that is when I saw the coyote. She shot out the passanger side window twice before the car stopped. We all agreed she hit it with the 4th round. She came back up the road to the house and the boys wanted to congradulate her and the first thing she said was "That mini14 sure is louder inside a car than it is shooting it out the kitchen window." The help went and told all their buddies about how crazy my wife is with a gun and late night trafic on our little dead end road has slowed down a great deal.

old · May 11, 2010

As i sad Dave care to test how well I shoot???????? Bet you would loose big time dude so give me a brake or maybe I'll see if the people you rent from are family if so they might raise your rent

old · May 11, 2010

Shoot I only blew its brains out the floor of the tack house

old · May 11, 2010

I have a 10% for my belly problems and another 10% for my ears so yep have the hearing thing covered already and that is in fact a big part of my ringing 24/7 the sub I was on and the 400 cycle hum and on the carrier the air plane noise

Anonymous-0 · May 11, 2010

(quoted from post at 19:36:19 05/11/10) As i sad Dave care to test how well I shoot???????? Bet you would loose big time dude so give me a brake or maybe I'll see if the people you rent from are family if so they might raise your rent

Where's your sense of humor???????????? If you can't read about your little critter episodes without laughing, there's sumpin bad wrong at ya........

barn E · May 11, 2010

Pull him out after he conks out and then shoot him. He does play possum ya know.

Steven-Id · May 11, 2010

I went to school with a kid back in 77. In the fall he went out hunting antelope, he saw a nice one and decided to lean across the hood to steady himself. He didn't realize that the scope looked over the opposite door mirror but the barrel didn't. He bagged himself a nice chrome truck mirror. Steven

rbel · May 12, 2010

Father in law's coon hound starts barking tree in the wifes rock garden. She checks and he is nose to nose with a big old possum. She hollars at me to get the gun and shoot it. I walk up behind the possum, grab him by the tail and give him a big fling up into the air. Coon hound grabs him mid air and takes off to the woods. No more possum nor noisy dog. No ringing ears either

spacechem · May 13, 2010

When I was growing up, our farm was the first one up a hill toward town from a creek bottom that evidently people thought was far enough from town to dump unwanted dogs. The strays would wander up to our place, and we would try them out. One or two over the years stuck around, but mostly we were left with the dubious duty of putting them where they belonged.

Dad and I were on that sad task one day. I drove the little Ford, and he had his 22. Got the dog to follow us about 1/4 mile from the house and stopped. Dog seemed to suspect something was up when Dad drew a bead on him. Pulled the trigger and just grazed his head. Dog gave a yelp and, of course, lit out for the house- bleeding. Turned the tractor around and high-tailed it after him.

Got to the house just after the stray, and found my little sister in her summer shorts coming out with no idea what was going on. She's trying to come out, dog's trying to get in, and blood all over the front sidewalk. Dad finally plugged him on our front step. What a mess!

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