I made a possum leghold trap in 15 minutes, this along with flour as bait can give me 5$ per possum selling the fur and free meat to eat.
I made a possum leghold trap in 15 minutes, this along with flour as bait can give me 5$ per possum selling the fur and free meat to eat.
>when the trigger is stepped on
Holy based. Frick possums
How did you make it? I want to start trapping around nz also
fork of a tree for the base, a closed loop of cord around the ends of the forks, put stick between the loop and spin it around for energy, trigger is also a fork of a tree just short, engine stick and a another stick sideways on the bottom of the trap go in the trigger fork to block it till the trigger is stepped on. loop is hitched to the engine stick, one end ties to something solid and other end has a slipknot sitting over the trigger
Leave the possum alone, they eat ticks and dont carry rabies. Possums are friends.
kill rabbits and shit
im in new zealand, they are pests here
you are the pests
this is correct
they are actually nature's night time garbage crew
if they are "pests" where you are- you are in a garbage dump. killing them will only make it worse, Mao
They're invasive species and don't belong there. It doesn't matter what role they fill in their native ecosystem on the other side of the globe.
> They're invasive species and don't belong here.
Anon... let me tell you about humans, and your dog.
Send them back
I beg your pardon, I mistook you for an american.
Frick rabbits too lmao
That's a big bunny
Thank you for your service to our native birds, Anon.
>t. cuckhold
What stops the possum from chewing the string off?
low iq
I love Possums, but if you're actually using the meat for food, I don't really see a problem. Better than buying shit from Walmart.
Haven't met many people who eat it but it makes good dog tucker
In Asia they eat it. Inb4 Asians eat anything. But the same guy who came up with possum dog rolls also sends some meat to South East Asia and calls it kiwi bear. Both are only taken from Tb and poison free places of course
Pro tip, if you use two wires twisted together, as the trapped animal spins around it unwinds the two wires and effectively locks the wire around it's foot.
You can also place these traps on standing trees if you just hammer a peg into the tree to put the loop, trapping the possum off the ground means it won't be fouled by other animals and also you don't have to waste time hacking the fork off a tree.
Also did you see /misc/NZG? Why do you c**ts hate possums so much?
I'm a big fan of the standing indian bird trap because of how many you can carry, lay 10 out in a bluff and catch 5 random birds while you're getting water.
>Why do you c**ts hate possums so much?
They're shit in NZ, they have no predator so they can get way out of control, they chew up masses of foliage in the bush fricking it up and eat the eggs of rare native birds etc and spread TB to cattle as well. You can get a job going around nailing poison bait stations to trees and leaving them to rot let alone trapping but the fur is worth a fair bit just plucked out and there's a company buying carcass for dog food, you can make a living trapping them if you can travel around a lot (poison control methods mean sometimes they dissappear from an area for a while even deep in the bush they sometimes aerial drop it), can tan the skins and make stuff out of those too
>I'm a big fan of the standing indian bird trap
I recquire more info of that
Very cool anon. Trapping thread? Trapping thread.
Any anons have experience owning or running a trapline? Been wondering how viable it would be as a side business if I ever moved up north (western Canada).
Just in case you haven't seen this dude's channel.. he's in your area too. https://www.youtube.com/c/TraplinesandInlines I frickin love this guy and he's like 19-20 or something.
trapping for money is Black person-tier behavior. It always amazes me how people be like "coyotes kill livestock" but then b***h about "invasive species" as if their livestock is natural. Hunting for food perfectly normal, trapping/killing for money is what someone who is out of touch with nature does. Doesn't matter how deep in the sticks you live if you can't live amongst animals without killing everything you see like a low IQ moron.
In the case of possums they were literally introduced to set up a trapping industry. People take maybe a couple million a year. Probably 10s of millions more are poisoned. With nothing else killing them they'd eat the whole damn forest canopy down and kill off the native birds otherwise
I wonder what it taste like? OP you having a feed on possums?
Did you put it out last night?
>In 2010 the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals criticised a number of New Zealand schools which had carried out "possum-tossing contests", which involved throwing dead possums. The society said that "while it's technically not illegal, it's morally wrong to throw a dead animal around"
I was buying crabmeat at a dinky store near the shore and they had a freezer with possum meat in it for sale. Never tried it. What am I missing?
200 years or so, you'll catch up quick though
Did that dish with the fork on it have roasted possum in it earlier?
Did the possum you roasted come out of that cage in the background?
that's where he crates his dog. it's this new thing young people do instead of training them to not tear up the house when they're gone. ming-boggling laziness of the younger generation. and they wonder why their dog is stressed out.
he is only in there at night time to sleep, only had him in there during the day back when he was being potty trained
virtue-signallers and old bastards who dont even spend time in the woods vs hunters and hippes who actually spend time in the woods and are involved with wild animals
Wouldn't mind tanning a bunch of skins and making a big blanket out of it. I'm pretty sure if you went to buy one it would cost a few grand
Damn people on PrepHole really afraid of small animals who just clean up pests and eat fallen fruit before it rots.
>smack a pest on the head skin it and make it into food and clothing
Damn you're right those folks must be terrified of them
>found one
Nah I can't trap any because I let a crew come in and put bait stations around my place, and there was a 1080 drop out in the neighboring bush too. Haven't seen one for quite a while but they'll be back
>1080 use
>conservationists and livestock farmers on one side and hunters and animal-rights activists on the other
NZ a magical place
Why did wool and fur die out so much anyway? Save a tree use a plastic shopping bag instead?