Here ya' go. This was almost city center Olympia, 2006. I really was happy to just watch the thing, but when I realized it was predating our training pigeons, it had to go. I was sick of losing $5 stupid pigeons every other day - and apparently this thing was just eating the heads. That stopped completely once the opossum was gone. Where we live now, happily, if we put up another pigeon loft I can just use the Remmie .22 or, if i am feeling rather cool like, my bow. Tool was a Gamo with the scope it came with, and I thought I was using the red light on it but the photo shows it without, so I must have been using the surplus flashlight with red lens. Was about 10 yards, from prone. Awesome gizmo, the Gamo. I bet it took out over 100 rats that year. I do want to reiterate, though, that it was too little gun for the possum. Live and learn. Although a vet friend of mine told me that possum are too stupid to realize when they are dead, so in her opinion it WAS dead with the 1 shot (dead center forehead, the other 2 shots there were my attempts to finish it off) but just hadn't realized it yet. What can I say,
she's the vet!
If only it had been eating the damn rats....
