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Thanks. When I have to cull, I just take them off the roost at night. No chasing, no catching, no struggle. I'm too old for all that! 😉 ETA. However, I really like the rest of your advice and will probably take it, thanks!

Thanks.

So after you shoot it, how do you bleed it?

Can you eat a bird killed using this method, or is this strictly for putting down a sick or injured bird for humane reasons only? And I was going to ask if, using the following method, can you bleed out the bird thoroughly, but I think you answered that. But ... do you fire down into the ground?

I got rid of my 9mm with the slide that my arthritic hands couldn't operate and purchased a .22 revolver. It's just for dispatching varmints such as opossums. We had one helping itself to our chicken feed last week and I suspect it may be getting eggs. Next I suppose I need a camera.

Thank you, I probably will. But I'm not totally ignorant. My first DH was a marksman in ROTC and taught me a lot. I've handled guns before and was a pretty good shot, although our targets back then were aluminum cans on fences or hung from trees. I've just chosen not to have guns while raising...

Oh. And it lives in a safe in my bedroom.

Newbie poking nose in. I had to have my BIL come shoot an opossum in my hen house the other day because we don't didn't own any guns. But our youngest is 17 now and I can no longer claim he doesn't have a lick o' sense, so I purchased a little 9mm at Bomgaar's the other day. It was much less...