Yeah I used to save money and get rat, mouse, pocket gopher, and mole traps at Fleet Farm and set em out. Only caught 1 pocket gopher before but I've shot a bunch of 13 lined ground squirrels though! (they're good for improving accuracy )

Nice! I ain’t skinning a filthy rat, it burrows in pig crap lol

Yea no thanks, i already clean pig pens.

lol, cleaning pig pens isn’t horrible if you do it consistently and if there in a barn and not outside

Sounds like great fun!

Yep they're pretty fun!!

It's definitely worth it to be able to have the title "Farm kid"! Although I've never cleaned pig pens before but I get hay and stuff for our horses

I will help my uncles bail hay in the summer a couple times. When the hay is stacked up in the straw barn then the coons will go up there and crap all over it so I trap the coons out of the barn

Nice! We have a horse who had a disease called EPM (Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis) which affects the spine, and how they get it is from eating hay that has possum droppings in it. I bet if trapping was banned, there would be a lot less horses around, 'cause EPM can be fatal if ya don't treat it.

But i don't think coons carry it

Woah I take that back. It seems like coons can carry epm...

I know I’ve had people tell me to kill every possum I catch because of the disease they carry so I do

Yeah

I've been trying to catch this one possum, his tracks are everywhere. My #1 coilspring froze over and I could see where he stepped on it. I've got 2 cage traps out for him too but he just avoids them. I have decided to sit up all night with the .17 and a flashlight and blast him if he shows up near the barn

Yeah I would go out at 10 or 11 with a shotgun and shine around till you see him, that’s what I do when I go possum or skunk hunting and I’m successful most of the time

Cool I'll probably try that

Heck yeah, it works like a charm. Not 10 or 11 during the day but at night, clarifying just in case

Also use a full choke with your shotgun to really make sure it hits em hard