I just came from the home of Brother PossumHunter, this evening we discussed at length the culinary habits of Didelphis Virginiana. We came to the conclusion that in all our years of cruising the woods and waters of Southern Illinois that neither of us has ever seen a possum chewing on a dead animals azzhole nor has either of us ever even seen one nibbling on roadkill. I've seen plenty rattling around in the garbage cans but even the most high bred bird dog in the world will do the same.
The animals I've seen most go after the eyeballs of a roadkill are crows, they'll peck an eye out first thing everytime. And the hated coyote will go straight in from the back end just like a female lion on a kill. Think how many possums it would take to hollow out a dead cow, it would take 20 possums a week of steady eating to get something like that done. My guess is it's a bigger predator doing the work and it gets blamed on the lowly possum out of spite.
We like 'em and we'll eat one every chance we get, you boys will not dissuade us from denying our white trash heritage with your fairytales.
DLH
P.S. PossumHunter offered to sell me the "Little Pet" .44XL hammergun but after having recently bought a Greener 8 gauge to further my market hunting career I just didn't have the cash. I told him I'd take it once I sell my first barrel of canvasbacks come fall.
A good icehouse is hard to find these days and proper barrels for shipping completely impossible. We made such a large bag down in Mississippi last season I had to resort to a plastic trash barrel to ship my birds to market in the north. Thankfully there was an all night icehouse in Tunica right across from the street from the bar pictured below.
