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Trapping

SNIPERBBB said:
Dogproofs are great but I am not a fan of them in most situations even though I own 4-5doz of the things. I almost never set them in nuisance situations because a caught raccoon will tear up everything in a 4-6ft radius assuming it's staked down and using stock chain. Plus you miss soooooooooooooooooo many coon with em.
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Nutterbuster has cats, dogs, and chickens plus he doesn't cut his grass or worried about his lawn, sooooo.........Dogproof traps! lol
 
Nutterbuster said:
After the untimely reduction in production of our Alternative Protein Factory (dead hen in coop) Her Grace commissioned me to wage Unholy War against the masked denizens of the night. Full lethal force against the heathen forces was authorized and encouraged, due to us being greatly outnumbered. Only one man of fighting age in the castle, against a solid 4 or more raccoons...

Initial skirmish last night resulted in one casualty. A rooftop sniper was able to take out a scout shortly after sunset. Further skirmishes resulted in questionable results. It is possible that, assured of a quick victory, a premature celebration at the mead hall impaired our troops' marksmanship.

As a precautionary measure, a cunning trap was laid. From our rations we spared bread of corn, onions, and oily fishes. We placed this offering in the trap, and with the rising of the sun were heartened to find that our fiery eyed foes were considerably less intimidating when not veiled by night.
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Man my buddy Mike has been dealing with the same problem for a couple years now. He’s been trapping, unfortunately as soon as you remove one or two, a few more end up replacing them! I have a really awesome blue tick for just the occasion of raccoons and opossum and of course hawks. They tend to avoid our yard when an 80 lbs long eared loud mouth comes running up in full baye
 
I have read somewhere and tried , never shoot a skunk in the head always heart shot, head shot makes them spray.
 
gumby said:
I have read somewhere and tried , never shoot a skunk in the head always heart shot, head shot makes them spray.
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Head shot =100% spray
Chest shot=about 40% spray
Acetone injected into the lungs via a pole mounted syringe=about 2% spray

I have a hole cut in ALL my cage traps just large enough to get a syringe through. Covering the trap also helps prevent spraying during this maneuver.
I used to nuisance trap for a living.

One story: I was trapping 'coons in a suburban neighborhood one time, it was early morning, just beginning to see some daylight. I was still about half asleep while checking the first trap which was tucked in some bushes. I heard the trap rattling and saw black and white fur, for some reason, I thought I caught one of the neighborhood cats. As I quickly walked up to the trap and bent over to release the "cat", I got sprayed by the skunk in the trap at a distance of about 18 inches. Rude, sudden awakening!

My wife still brings that one up 20 years later.
 
Skunk story: Quail hunting with a friend and my dog locked up on point and would not move, as we walked up to him my friend's dogs moved up with us and past my dog, all the while he was yelling at them. All at once his dog jumped right where my dog was looking and dead on a skunk. Yep he got sprayed big time, my dog just eased back, looked at him as if laughing.
 
Rooftop sniping netted me one more dead egg thief. Trap didn't get hit. Up here again tonight. Rezeroed the 512 with some vmax since the 40 solids seem a little lackluster on small critters
 
Nutterbuster said:
Rooftop sniping netted me one more dead egg thief. Trap didn't get hit. Up here again tonight. Rezeroed the 512 with some vmax since the 40 solids seem a little lackluster on small critters
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Get you a cold steel hunting blow dart gun, maybe you can get more than one at a time with a silent approach lol... you could be the next Tim Wells if you record it!
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Get you a cold steel hunting blow dart gun, maybe you can get more than one at a time with a silent approach lol... you could be the next Tim Wells if you record it!
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Just shot 2 coons. I feel like 50 yards with a blow gun would be tough.

Side note. I gotta build a better coop. A few nights on patrol have really opened my eyes as to the number of egg bandits out there. Maybe Amos will deter them when he's big enough to mark all over the yard and bark
 
Ended up with 3 dead raccoons and 3 dead possums last night. Female possum had 2 babies in her pouch that made for a bit 9f surprise when I went to haul her to the body pile.

Gotta get a coop built, but the Buffalo gnats are so bad here right now I get hammered just walking to the pen.
 
A small electric fence around the coop, turned on at night, goes a long way toward saving chickens. You can even get battery-powered fencers.
 
Had a coon problem a few years back when I got a new bunch of pullets that decided to sleep outside In the run. I was woken up from a deep sleep from all the noise my chickens were making. Didn't think anything of it till I heard it a few minutes later and realized they were under attack! Jumped up and ran out onto the deck to see a fat masked mofo reaching through the run fence grabbing a pullet. Ran for the 10/22 and crashed through the door only to see fat azz already gettin outta dodge. Chased him around the house and lost him in the darkness.

So the next night I set myself up on the deck with my .17HMR topped with a red predator light about an hour before the time he came the previous night. I catch a shadow in the moon light and sure enough it's him. I send it, ending his pilfering ways and sit back to bask in my success. I started to txt my buddy when I hear growling at the coop, ***?? Shine my red light down there to see a second coon had come in and got caught in one of my 1.5" four coiled bridgers I put in front of the run door, which I happen to have left ajar...The .17 barked again sending another to the eternal dirt nap. Not ten minutes later and a third shows up! Hit him a touch low and he took of dragging his entrails into the brush. Found him a few days later when my daughter said it smells disgusting by the wood pile, guts hanging out and maggots feasting.

Pretty sure they hunt in groups so I must have gotten all in that bunch or the rest decided it wasn't worth it. Haven't had a coon problem since.
 
I don't anyone but in the single days I kept bantam chickens and possums were worst than coons at my place.
Ammo is so hard to find I think I would make a coon size squirrel chucker... After the local con population gets launched into the river a couple times I bet they leave u alone....


I'll subscribe to ur utube for flying raccoon content
 
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