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Post by rangersedge on Oct 31, 2016 6:10:56 GMT -5
That is a huge one.
FWIW: I hate possums too. Many a time, I had a perfect raccoon or fox set messed up by a possum.
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Post by bulasteve on Oct 31, 2016 7:42:24 GMT -5
They have LOTS of teef ! Usually a million or so fleas too. I had to deal with a few when I ran traplines too. Hit one on a Honda 750F one night. It was like running over a half inflated basketball. Not sure how I stayed upright.
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Post by bulasteve on Oct 31, 2016 8:52:54 GMT -5
'Possum Ka'bobs ? Anyone can bone out something "questionable" and make stew, let's get creative here ! How about cubing or chunking the meat, then wrapping with bacon and deep frying ? Put bacon wrapped cubes/chunks, in a cooking basket and then over a fire ? OK, so most likely use will be to stake down in the far back corner of a field for coyote bait.
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Post by contender on Oct 31, 2016 9:53:36 GMT -5
Boy,,, no love for a possum huh? I LOVE possums myself. People pay me to catch them for them, and they are easy to catch. I call them "easy money!" Plus,,, they are one of the few animals the state of NC says I can relocate,,, due to the fact they rarely, if ever, get rabies. And if you are trapping for coons or fox,,, there are ways to keep the possums out of the traps. Plus,,, if you are catching the grinners,,, the coon population is a bit low there. And yes,, as a teen, I ate possum. Being a hillbilly and all, the mountain folks used to eat them,, so I had to try it. Not bad,, but I prefer OTHER critters. Too much work in cleaning, & cooking for an "ok" meat. Looks like that Alaskan did the job quite well on that old boar grinner too!
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Post by magnumwheelman on Oct 31, 2016 13:05:50 GMT -5
I'm afraid you'd have to fight off the outside dog to make Kabobs there STEVE... we have an agreement with the coons & opossums... he finds them, & tells me where they are... I kill them, he gets them afterwards... he shakes them & tosses them in the air for a day or two, then burries them out in the woods... in fact MRS had to hold him back... just long enough for me to get a picture without him in it
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Post by Alaskan454 on Oct 31, 2016 16:08:25 GMT -5
That sucker was pretty big!
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Post by medicdave on Oct 31, 2016 19:51:40 GMT -5
First animal I can remember shooting was a possum in the hen house with an Astra Cub in .22 short. Had possum a few times growing up in Florida, hair singed off and slow roasted basted in orange juice concentrate. Like contender said its ok.
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Post by bulasteve on Nov 17, 2016 9:43:18 GMT -5
On using the 480 to whack the 'possum, one of the quotes at the bottom of AWP101's posts covers it nicely !
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Post by bulasteve on Nov 17, 2016 10:14:02 GMT -5
MWM, off top of your head, do you know what that Alaskan weighs ? Figure the 480 has to be the lightest Alaskan ?
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Post by magnumwheelman on Nov 17, 2016 10:18:55 GMT -5
I've never thrown it on a scale... curious if Ruger's website lists a difference between calibers, or if they are all listed by whichever came 1st & they just list them all the same...
... I have 2... a 454 Casull & the 480 & don't "notice" a weight difference between them... it may be more noticeable between the .429 & the .475 bores though???
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Post by magnumwheelman on Nov 17, 2016 10:24:25 GMT -5
a quick check of Ruger's website shows the listed weights as
44 Mag... 45 oz 454 Casull... 44 oz 480 Ruger... 44 oz
there obviously has to be a difference in weight, but Ruger doesn't show it...
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Post by Alaskan454 on Nov 17, 2016 11:24:33 GMT -5
My 44 weighed 45.0 oz, the 454 weighs 43.1 oz but that might have been with my compact grips. Here's a little math since I was curious: Carpenter 465 is listed as 0.2822 lb/c.i. and each hole of the Ruger cylinder at 1.75" length would be about 1.53 oz in a 480 Ruger, or 1.39 oz in a 454 Casull assuming the dimensions of the cartridge and throat were replaced by steel. So the difference between the two in a 6 shot gun would be about 0.85 ounces for the cylinder. The barrel would account for around 0.18-0.20 oz depending on rifling depth. So we're talking a little over one ounce between a 454 and 480. You'd get similar numbers going from a 44 to 454 but the cylinder is fluted so that makes it tricky. I'll toss my 454 on a scale tonight as see if that weight was with the standard grips of Altamonts.
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Post by Alaskan454 on Nov 17, 2016 19:15:10 GMT -5
Factory grips put the 454 just under 44 oz, so my my math seems reasonably close on a 480 being around 43 oz.
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