Stumbled upon your channel, Thanks for sharing this with us. Great work taking care of the pests! Sorry to see someone nicked your possums. Greenies hate possums too, I think you're more on the money with the farmer taking em for dog tucka! Either way, cool adventure, Cheers for sharing it! Subbed!
Do you keep any to eat. Keeping it wild says it’s his favourite meat. I’ve never understood why people mess with others property. I was taught never touch what’s not mine and I’ve taught the same to my kids🍺🍺
Great video Chrispy only an idiot or a very brave person plays with a possum in a trap to release them. Did you shoot them or give them a little knock on the head so they could have a sleep cheers mate.
Ive walked my trap line and come across a dude plucking the possums off my traps,... and ive had my traps stolen, also had my traps set off and i know they had been because i met a young guy had also ser his own ones not far from mine and the traps were like off but standing up, not on there sides, with a toe, lol. i will say i did get evil thoughts lol, i suppose we dont live in a perfect world. Sometimes we might blase up some trees in a area and go back that night or in a couple of nights later to shoot them, coz its safer than leaving a trap line out
Possums are usually most active after rain on warm nights, the lowlifes come out about $100/kg fur price. They are not rare, and include some remarkable coincidences with some YT contributors & their friends activities, hunter representative organisations etc. Possum hunters have featured prominently among problem back country users forever (cavemen chasing them would have been predominantly the rectums of the tribe), but pig hunters are a close second & tahr hunters earned mention. Still plenty of hunters don't have the entitled attitude that lets some down, the ones that do make up for them and cause all sorts of anti-hunter restrictions & attitudes. Not helped by some poor management actions by landowners, Govt departments & politicians, & lobbying from hunter organisations who represent the minority of hunters & make maximum (often inaccurate) noise. But while they are prevented from imposing their ideals on the hunter that gets their permit.landowner consent & keeps their nose clean & you can shoot whatever (legal & consented) pest desired, we have it good.
Stapling into a crop pruned pine tree above stump height (or anywhere but a root or buttress), and to fences (the escape shows why) isn't good practice. Some people might set traps off consequently. On some it wasn't obvious there had been a possum caught, and missed possum events leaving snapped traps has ranged from 1:4 to 1:38 on lines stats had been recorded (normal being 1:8 - 1:10). The flipped trap may have been a rat or possum, both can do that particularly with spilt bait spread around.
8mm x 400m steel pegs will hold possums in most ground driven right in to prevent leverage. Checked & re-driven if needed after catches. Tracks by fences can be trapped avoiding macramé@@chrispyskiwiadventures3583
So you could clean up a found line with less evidence? It wasn't that rare in the day, although there are certainly more "problem" users of the bush now, hence more chance of ankersw.
