Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Possums

19 February 2013

Re: [DIY] Possums

One of our daughters recently bought a house in the country and I do believe she will have a small brass mine out by the fire pit before long. They buy shells like we did (by the 500 round brick) and when the weather is warm will with their friends go through a couple of bricks in a weekend. We have a Remington Nylon 22 in the attic which is presently buried somewhere under the plastic that was used to cover everything when the old wood shingles were torn off, but it is in the plans to clean that mess up and perhaps it will surface. I owned a Winchester 74 back in the 50's and that was a sweet little rifle, but I'm sure it must have been a smooth bore after the many thousands of rounds I put through it.

Dale in the Flatlands.

mountain953346 wrote:

--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, freespirt2050 gdb7edc wrote:
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> Wow, that is a great story...Plenty of reliving that over the yearts, what memories...
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> From: Dale S
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> Cute, and it reminds me of our days when we were at war with the possum's down in Oklahoma.

Back in 1958 when .22 long rifles were like 50 per nickle
I learned to shoot trimming branches off our walnut trees
with a .22 rifle and small scope...later the Viet Cong
became a nuisance and I thanked God for my father teaching
me to shoot when I was a youngin!

When I got back to the USA the possums and other critters robbing our
chicken (well we had geese for thanksgiving also) coop
never had a chance!