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opossum breaking

has anyone ever done any proactive opossum breaking with there pups or young dogs? another words broke them before taking them out hunting or before it becomes a issue. i would like to hear any good or poor results from your experiences.

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what your asking is can you break a pup before you hunt it !! lead/load/sit/come when called about all !! try to yard break one from off game is a no winner BEFORE its hunted !! they will just get confused !! JMO dosnt mean much tho !!

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C.JONES

Kill one and cook it for them maybe it will have the same effect it did on me eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyuk !!



Tar

Hey Carson don't you have the drugstore coonhunters bible, Walk with Wick? Now Uncle John would just take a possum and hang it from an electric fence........

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Originally posted by yadkinriver
Hey Carson don't you have the drugstore coonhunters bible, Walk with Wick? Now Uncle John would just take a possum and hang it from an electric fence........

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C.JONES

I thought about asking Mr wick.
I don't know about you fellows but the pups I start that stay away from possums have a easier time progressing. The pups or young dogs that gather a liking for possums it seems like thay get set back 1 way or another. Mostly from me trying to break them I understand but none the less set back.
Maybe it can't be done? Idk

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Originally posted by yadkinriver
Hey Carson don't you have the drugstore coonhunters bible, Walk with Wick? Now Uncle John would just take a possum and hang it from an electric fence........

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C.JONES

I did too. Hung'em all around the pasture. Broke the pups from going in the pasture.

I don't care if there 6 weeks old, or 6 months old I catch em under or around a opposum I beat them like I got beat for being around the well box. I don't go around the well box no more

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jason

Jason would you agree that it can be the thing that is most difficult on many of these young hounds not all youngsters but plenty of thems progress?

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Originally posted by yadkintar
Kill one and cook it for them maybe it will have the same effect it did on me eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyuk !!



Tar

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I start mine on possums!

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If It Climbs, It Ain't Trash

Do you break them later

These world hunts ain't worth watching without the possum element lol.



Tar

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Originally posted by pamjohnson
Do you break them later

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If It Climbs, It Ain't Trash

When I have a hound that trees a griiner I knock it out, beat them with it while my partner lights them up, then I take it back to the truck throw it in the box with them and light them up every mile on the way home... After 1 night of this they are usually broke

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Todd Byers
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Opossum

Seems a little excessive

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Originally posted by MR.RATMAN
When I have a hound that trees a griiner I knock it out, beat them with it while my partner lights them up, then I take it back to the truck throw it in the box with them and light them up every mile on the way home... After 1 night of this they are usually broke

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i was on a cast years ago . caught a possum on the ground . one of the guys with drew . cut the possum belly open held his dog down while holding the possum over his nose and mouth till dog passed pumb out .lol we all just stood around not saying anything cause we didnt want to be next .lol drew the same dog and man about a month latter . 2 possums were treed on the cast and his dog had no part of them .lol must have worked .lol i have found most will quit on their own after getting a few coon down on them . i just leash my young ones up give them a good scolding and go on .

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Originally posted by pamjohnson
Jason would you agree that it can be the thing that is most difficult on many of these young hounds not all youngsters but plenty of thems progress?

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jason

Competition coon hunting has made the lowly possum one of the most hated animals on this planet.

Hey Hoss, would you define junk? Kinda like Bill Clinton saying "define sex". Just wondering what catagory possums fall in.

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Originally posted by thomasg
i was on a cast years ago . caught a possum on the ground . one of the guys with drew . cut the possum belly open held his dog down while holding the possum over his nose and mouth till dog passed pumb out .lol we all just stood around not saying anything cause we didnt want to be next .lol drew the same dog and man about a month latter . 2 possums were treed on the cast and his dog had no part of them .lol must have worked .lol i have found most will quit on their own after getting a few coon down on them . i just leash my young ones up give them a good scolding and go on .

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Originally posted by yadkinriver
Hey Hoss, would you define junk? Kinda like Bill Clinton saying "define sex". Just wondering what catagory possums fall in.

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I see what you're saying. I always considered anything but a coon as junk but I can understand why some think a possum is in a category of it's own. But it's still junk to me.lol

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Originally posted by yadkinriver
I see what you're saying. I always considered anything but a coon as junk but I can understand why some think a possum is in a category of it's own. But it's still junk to me.lol

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