"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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On Jun 18, 12:27 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
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If you're thinking about shooting them with your air rifle, I'd advise
against it. They are remarkably tough and difficult to kill. A .22 Long
Rifle is considered inadequate, except with a head shot....
Ed Huntress

They have a huge wet-food-filled gut that absorbs a .22 bullet. When
they run away from you that's the only target.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/agricul...-animal-traps/
I bought the small + medium set last year to trap a similar-sized
possum. That is a decent price and they were made well enough to work
without binding, after a little tweaking of the release. The wire
handles need padding, my hand hurt after marching it a few miles out
into the woods to release it. It didn't come back.

jsw

If you trap and release a young one, and his mother is still around, she
will whistle him back -- sometimes from a couple of miles away.

You really have to move them out.

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Ed Huntress