Things that go bump in the night

[xring]

I sat on my stand last night armed with a model 17 S&W, a 4 cell Maglight and a grudge.

The past couple of nights I had heard a bump or two originating under my house, I decided that a verbal warning would not get the job done so I assumed the position,,Yep, I sat a fairly comfortable chair next to the back door and patiently waited for the uninvited guest to make his appearance, when I first saw movement I turned on the porch light and almost felt undergunned, this was a trophy possum, (not the one on here), he turned at the sound of the door opening and I fired, Matt Dillon style, from the hip as this is a blue gun with iron sights, The shot took him a bit low and center of his chest, although it was not instant, it was almost,,a few kicks of his legs and no blood trail to follow. I skinned him and prepared him for baking for the dinner tonight,,ah,,,life is sweet, baked possum and sweet potatoes....I know the guests at our dinner table at Browns Catfish will be delighted, a royal Yell Co. Favorite,,,xring

[snydedawg]

Brother...I'm 'bout as redneck, white-trash as you can generally find....but I can't EVEN begin to think that 'possum and sweet taters are gonna make my menu!!! I may get hungry enough someday, so I can't say never.....but damn, I shoot a 'possum and "Food" never enters my mind!!!!!

Must be a Yell Co. thing!!! That may explain why I don't understand!!!! Happy eats though!!!

[reflex1]

Dayam X!!! Shooting yer own kinfolks for supper nowadays? graemlins/smack.gif Musta been quite the lowlife for you ta do that!!! :D

[WarblerWatcher]

Possum on a Stick YC Style!

Ingredients:
1 Still breathing young fat Possum
3 Ripe but firm tomatoes
1 Large white or yellow onion
1/2 pound large mushrooms
2 large green peppers
1 package meat marinade
1/2 cup soy sauce
12 freshly cut pine sticks

Preparation:
The possum must be alive so that you can scare it, giving you the "wild" taste from all the adrenaline it produces. It is best to hit it over the head with a large object 8 to 10 times (in a humane manner). Boil the possum for 3 minutes to loosen the fur then skin and gut it.
De-limb (chop the little knubby legs off) the possum and cut the meat into 1/2 inch square chunks. Marinate overnight in a mixture of meat marinade and soy sauce. (Texas residents who have no fridge can use an ice chest and may use radiator coolant instead of soy sauce)
Thread the meat and veggies onto your freshly cut pine sticks in alternating sequences to distribute the delicious flavor evenly. Cook over a barbecue pit, 50 gallon drum or any other fire till you get the desired result. For added flavor it can be cooked over burning tires.

[Ty-Bo67]

man xring that sounds good im gonna have to try it

[LX Shooter]

Originally posted by snydedawg:
Brother...I'm 'bout as redneck, white-trash as you can generally find....but I can't EVEN begin to think that 'possum and sweet taters are gonna make my menu!!! I may get hungry enough someday, so I can't say never.....but damn, I shoot a 'possum and "Food" never enters my mind!!!!!

Must be a Yell Co. thing!!! That may explain why I don't understand!!!! Happy eats though!!! Yep I am with you on this one...... graemlins/thumb.gif

[Rattle-m-up™]

Originally posted by LX_Shooter1:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by snydedawg:
Brother...I'm 'bout as redneck, white-trash as you can generally find....but I can't EVEN begin to think that 'possum and sweet taters are gonna make my menu!!! I may get hungry enough someday, so I can't say never.....but damn, I shoot a 'possum and "Food" never enters my mind!!!!!

Must be a Yell Co. thing!!! That may explain why I don't understand!!!! Happy eats though!!! Yep I am with you on this one...... graemlins/thumb.gif </font>[/QUOTE]i agree.... :rolleyes:

[reflex1]

Leeeeetle Rattle - you would agree with anything!!!

Hey X - can't you control yer grandson??? :D

[possum]

Originally posted by snydedawg:
Brother...I'm 'bout as redneck, white-trash as you can generally find....but I can't EVEN begin to think that 'possum and sweet taters are gonna make my menu!!! I may get hungry enough someday, so I can't say never.....but damn, I shoot a 'possum and "Food" never enters my mind!!!!!

Must be a Yell Co. thing!!! That may explain why I don't understand!!!! Happy eats though!!! I know what ya mean. How could anyone ruin a good meal with sweet taters.

[reflex1]

Originally posted by possum:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by snydedawg:
Brother...I'm 'bout as redneck, white-trash as you can generally find....but I can't EVEN begin to think that 'possum and sweet taters are gonna make my menu!!! I may get hungry enough someday, so I can't say never.....but damn, I shoot a 'possum and "Food" never enters my mind!!!!!

Must be a Yell Co. thing!!! That may explain why I don't understand!!!! Happy eats though!!! I know what ya mean. How could anyone ruin a good meal with sweet taters. </font>[/QUOTE]Who is this "sweet taters" you be talkin bout? kildog ain't so bad to sit down with at a dinner table!!! :D Although he do git a leeeeetle sloppy at times! graemlins/smack.gif

[Cjdavis618]

Originally posted by xring:
I sat on my stand last night armed with a model 17 S&W, a 4 cell Maglight and a grudge.

The past couple of nights I had heard a bump or two originating under my house, I decided that a verbal warning would not get the job done so I assumed the position,,Yep, I sat a fairly comfortable chair next to the back door and patiently waited for the uninvited guest to make his appearance, when I first saw movement I turned on the porch light and almost felt undergunned, this was a trophy possum, (not the one on here), he turned at the sound of the door opening and I fired, Matt Dillon style, from the hip as this is a blue gun with iron sights, The shot took him a bit low and center of his chest, although it was not instant, it was almost,,a few kicks of his legs and no blood trail to follow. I skinned him and prepared him for baking for the dinner tonight,,ah,,,life is sweet, baked possum and sweet potatoes....I know the guests at our dinner table at Browns Catfish will be delighted, a royal Yell Co. Favorite,,,xring Hey, that's funny. I did the same thing last night. I have one that is somehow getting into my air vent. I saw him last night eating my cat's food. So I tried to lower the boom on it. I missed as I wasn't thinking striaght and my scope is so high on the base and he was 3 feet from the muzzle.

But tonight, I'm bowhunting possum. graemlins/thumb.gif

(Neighbors called the cops on me, I live in the county but it was about 9:30.) You'd think I was killing somebody as quick as they got here. It was funny, this city cop drives up to my house and started asking questions. then he said, "I'll have to wright you a ticket. You shot a firearm in city limits." I said no I didn't. He had to check and he found out my driveway at the end of my property was the end of the city limits. graemlins/thumb.gif graemlins/thumb.gif

He was so disappointed. graemlins/smack.gif


I'll be the silent erradicator tonight...

[D]

I live in Beebe, and it is not illegal to shoot a firearm in the city limits. Fireworks are illegal but not guns. Unless they just passed a new ordinance. We use to joke with the mayor about it. Someone shot between 6-7pm, Cause I heard a shot around that time.

[D]

[Cjdavis618]

That's what he told me. He was a younger officer, maybe my age or younger.

He looked like he just got out of training. Non the less, it wouldn't have done him anygood either way. The face he gave me after he found out I was out of city limits was priceless.

I live on the Post office side of town on Apple street.

I was simply protecting my cat food. graemlins/thumb.gif

[Ginder75]

I think I heard that shot. I am on Louisiana by the Big church down town. graemlins/thumb.gif graemlins/thumb.gif :D

[D]

Hehehe. I bet I know him. I would have paid to see his face. I live on Lemon St for now but, I am building a new house in the Stoney Point area. No worries about city limits after I move. Good luck on the possum hunt!

[kildog]

Possum...you better run and hide...these guys are taking it serious....what did you say to make them mad?

[possum]

Actually, I thought I was pretty well behaved at the Russellville fish eatin :confused:

[reflex1]

Yeah right possum!!! Yer time is coming! Well behaved - hawwwww! If you call crawling around on the floor and picking everybody's chicken bone well behaved - you got another think coming!!! graemlins/smack.gif

[possum]

If ya'll weren't so messy :rolleyes:

[xring]

Well Friends, here it is christmas morning, I've spent the better part of two hours looking to see if ole Saint Nick brought anything to my humble abode,,If'n he did,,he hid them well, Sometimes I doubt there is a Santa :( But looking back over the past year,,maybe I didn't have it coming :rolleyes:

Anyway to all of those of you who were really good this past year, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! graemlins/thumb.gif
xring

[DODGEMAN]

Well X you know I was good this year, like every year. graemlins/thumb.gif

You know you would think those X wives of your would have sent you something since you did give them all that money. graemlins/smack.gif

[mossyoak_archer]

x you aint right,man do you know how a possum eats. i found a dead doe in the woods one time and she was all swollen and stinkin i didnt see a hole on the side she was layin on so i decided to roll her over to see if she was shot or just died,just as i kicked her a possum came barreling out of her a**hole and scared the fire out of me.i thought i was being attacked by a zombie deer, i was just a young kid then and ever since i have had a new way to look at possums.NO WAY WOULD I EAT ONE OF THEM THINGS.and i have eaten everthing there is wild to eat and like most all of it,but never a possum.but i guess you like a little shi* as seasoning graemlins/smack.gif :eek:

[Hill Farm Hunter]

Dad used to coon hunt with a guy that would hang a possum around his neck with a hay string and skin it while he walked through the woods. :eek:

[snydedawg]

M.O. archer... found an old dead horse one time when I was a little tike and it was moving around, so I kicked the hell out of it and had a whole family of possums come barrelin' out it's a--!!
All stinkin' and squallin' and raisin' hell like I had just farted in the Vatican!!!
I ain't never forgot the scene nor the smell....all the sweet taters on earth ain't gonna take away that image of a possums nasty a--!!

Oh, by the way possum; I reckon you're probably a pretty good feller....I just hope YOU don't have a habit of crawlin in a horse's a--!!! I've been called one (alot) but ain't never felt inclined to explore around inside one!!!

[xring]

I don't reckon you boys care for pork chops either? I doubt that the lowly Possum would dine on anything that a nice clean hog would pass up, I see that some of you have finer tastes than I realized, sorry for the uncouth culinary dish mentioned in my post, I can see that yall use fine linen table cloths instesd of oil cloth on your dining room tables, probally wear dinner jackets for your evening meals, and never drank your buttermilk from a snuff glass..Oh, heck, yall probally never drink buttermilk,,vintage wines from cut crystal decanters,,,, :rolleyes: ;) x

[Sister]

How about turtle? Anyone on this site eat soft shell turtle (sometimes called leatherbacks) caught right out of the ole Arkansas River?

My Grandpa fished the Arkansas with nets, trot lines, cane poles, and probably lots of other ways too. He hated them turtles to get into his nets, almost as bad as those big ole gars, you know the ones with scales 1/8 inch thick and teeth like an alligator???? In fact Grandpa called them alligator gar.

Well, let me tell you Grandmother knew how to cook those turtles, battered and fried....fooled a lot of folks into thinking they were having fried chicken.

One of Grandpa and Grandmother's favorite sayings was "Waste not, Want not". They lived through the depression and raised five mighty healthy younguns while doing it.

Couldn't tell you if they ever had possum, but if they did I bet Grandmother could pass it off as something entirely acceptable to the group...now that was folks made out of strong stuff. None of these wimpy sissy folks in their day and time...they just didn't last long in those days. Only the strong survived.

I came from strong stock, the best! Good God Fearing Folks who took care of themselves, their family and their neighbors.....wish I thought I could be half the character of my ancestors.

Betcha Old X can say the same!! JMHO

[Ty-Bo67]

Sister, I have not had softshell turtle due to NOW they are illigal and also the gars you were talking about are called Alligator Gars and are an excellent game fish for a big fish angler.

[Sister]

You kidding???? Illegal.... I guess that shows how out-of-touch I have been. So, are they endangered or what?

[Ty-Bo67]

Yes they are endangered due to people eating them. graemlins/thumb.gif

[xring]

Sister,

Sounds like you are from the same kind of people I am from, We didn't have anything to waste, but we had family values, A father who would strap your butt if you needed it, a Mother who knew no bounds when it came to loving her children,,and man could she cook..I can't remember any meat coming from the "store", we killed hogs, had chickens for eggs and meat, a milk cow for butter and milk,,lots of wild game,,few deer, as there was few in Arkansas at the time I was growing up, lots of squirrels and rabbits,,quail, and every kind of fish that swam in the arkansas river, I never remember a rabbit, squirrel, quail, or any other game animal that was not truely appreciated at the dinner table,,oh, and that duck and dressing that I loved so dearly,,ah, those were indeed the days!I hate that the generation that is growing up now never got to see the miles and miles of free hunting land available to all, no purple paint, no, no trespassing signs, A farmer might stop for a few minutes to chat and see what you had killed, then tell you where he had been seeing a bunch of rabbits on his place,,or a covey of quail,,can you imagine that happening today??? Life was hard,,BUT it was simple and good back then. On and On he rattled,,so sorry,,,x

Tybo, I reckon if you ate them turtles,,it'd certainly endanger them!!!You right on Young man!!Tell old remington I'm going to come up that way one of these days and see if that squirrel dog will hunt!! x

[Remington]

Come on up you old fart.....That old dog is ready and waiting....Snow been on so long he just antsy to get outta the pen.... graemlins/thumb.gif

[xring]

Careful there, I'll take you up on it one of these days!!! I really want to if my old body will let me!!! thanks Xring

[DODGEMAN]

Hey they were squirrel hunting on AETN tonight, just ride the 4-wheeler till the dog strikes, let him off and he trees'em and you just go over and shoot them. Heck me and X could do that. graemlins/thumb.gif

[Remington]

when me and my grandpa go that is how we hunt except we let the dogs run in front of the 4 wheelers at all times never on a leash...they smell one and run him out in the woods and put him up a bush and gramps dead eyes with his trusty old 22 and knocks the eyes outta em....got to love it...gets me in the woods with him and get to hear a dog treed all at the same time....he only goes with me to Harold E Alexander though cause they got roads to ride on and all....hard for him to keep up down here on the place...

[Sister]

You gotta be a good guy Remington....enjoying the company of your Grandpa hunting and doing it in a way to enable him to participate.

You're probably too young now to even know how much that is worth to him. But, being a member of the "Grand" folks, I can tell you it is priceless. And I'm sure it enriches your life as well.

[Remington]

I am only 25 yrs old and that man taught me a many things out in the woods from listening to his old deer dogs on a cold trail and the difference to when they were running a good trail...simple things like where deer are more likely to cross in certain times of the year and when they are not...My father taught me alot too but I have always enjoyed being with my pawpaw as i call him....he has all but give up deer hunting since he says he cant sit a stand without hearing a dog run...just another reason for me to enjoy the woods that i love with him....he is my pawpaw and always will be and if i can hunt with him just one more day then i am satisfied...Yes i do realize how much this means to him...from watching the smiles on his face when my dog trees or his outdoes mine on a tree....these expressions are priceless...well anyways im off topic but its easy to ramble on topic like this for me...

[xring]

That was a dang good post Remington, Good to know that there is still some young folks out there that have some feelings for family!! He is a lucky man,,your PawPaw!!! xring

[deerhunter]

I'm with you X,great post Remington. :cool: