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Trapping

Weldabeast said:
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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I wonder if I can build one big enough for my wife.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I honestly think having chickens and shooting predators off of them is more fun that turkey hunting. Is it bad i was pricing predator lights and the cost of building g a staircase up to the roof?
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I have a green light, clips on scope and it is some kind of bright, adjustable beam. Amazon $26, it is super well worth the price. I also use a motion dect batt light to let me know when something is in range. Critter problem also.
 
Coons are definatey tough bast*rds. I shot a rabid one 6-7 times one night with 22cbs with my handgun and the 4-5 were directly into his head. The amount of blood I can’t fathom how he was still growling at me thinking he was a tiger
 
JC3 said:
I like the "service loop" you included in your design, do you do panel work?
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Hahaha this was not my work...

"You'll be shocked when you find out how bad of an electrician I am..."

Found the photo on the internet. :p
 
boyne bowhunter said:
For the record, I "relocated" the skunks much the same way Sir @Nutterbuster dealt with his chicken thief but I had to transport them away from the house to do it. I just couldn't bring myself do that to some kids pet though. I have to admit though I did consider it after it caught me a couple of times while trying to release latch and dump it out.
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That's why you need to invest in a "Williams Style" box trap. To release the critter, all you have to do is slowly roll the trap over and the doors automatically slide open. There are two steel rings that slide down to hold the door shut..... no stupid latches etc. like the TSC traps. If you're finding yourself doing a lot of trapping or relocating, invest in a couple of these Williams style box traps. Great way to easily and odorlessly release the occasional pole cats you may have find in your traps. Yes for marshmallows to just get coons but you have to use the normal sized ones and just pull them apart. Also, I wire a tin soup can in the corner, keeps you non-targets down too.... the coons can reach in where the others can't.
 
5mm or .20 cal pellet from a Benjamin-Sheridan Silver Streak to the head takes the coons out fine and a lot quieter than the firearm. Best way to euthanize skunks without smell is to inject acetone into their chest cavity. You can then harvest the "pure quill" essence and get up to $25 per ounce. With the Williams style traps, just throw an old blanked over your caught skunk, move and talk slowly and calmly and you can take that beautiful two-toned critter for a ride with you in your front seat if you want. If they don't see or get jostled around too aggressively they stay pretty calm. Once you get to your destination, slowly take your new found pepe' le-pew out and set your box trap down, move the blanket from the door opening, roll the trap over slowly and the door will open and your musky critter will find its way out and onto greener pastures. Have fun. If you have NWCO license you can actually charge a pretty handsome fee for this. Most people freak out about skunks. Just have to know a little bit about them. They are pretty low key.
 
Oh, trust me, I have no problem dumping a relocated pole cat from the trap once he's taken an .45 pill. :tearsofjoy:

I do move them exactly as you suggest, blanket over the trap so they can't see, place the trap in the bed of the truck and just drive smoothly to the relocation area. Have yet to get the truck stinky.
 
woodsdog2 said:
That's why you need to invest in a "Williams Style" box trap. To release the critter, all you have to do is slowly roll the trap over and the doors automatically slide open. There are two steel rings that slide down to hold the door shut..... no stupid latches etc. like the TSC traps. If you're finding yourself doing a lot of trapping or relocating, invest in a couple of these Williams style box traps. Great way to easily and odorlessly release the occasional pole cats you may have find in your traps. Yes for marshmallows to just get coons but you have to use the normal sized ones and just pull them apart. Also, I wire a tin soup can in the corner, keeps you non-targets down too.... the coons can reach in where the others can't.
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I have 3 of them traps, there the best, bought them at the nys trappers convention, I was going to recommend them also and I couldn’t remember the name.
 
boyne bowhunter said:
Oh, trust me, I have no problem dumping a relocated pole cat from the trap once he's taken an .45 pill. :tearsofjoy:

I do move them exactly as you suggest, blanket over the trap so they can't see, place the trap in the bed of the truck and just drive smoothly to the relocation area. Have yet to get the truck stinky.
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Send me your address to me so when my nuisance trapping friends catch a skunk that's been relocated so they know who to send skunks or cleaning bills to. Relocated (illegal in most states FYI)skunks don't take kindly to being caught again. They'll spray anything alive that comes near them. No chance at all to calm them down. They stay pissed off.
 
BackSpasm said:
@Nutterbuster what is the total body count at this point and do I even want to know what a "buffalo gnat" is?
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6 raccoons and 3 possums. Buffalo Gnat is what happens when a regular gnat and a tiger screw in the woods around Chernobyl. They can bite through a leather jacket and swarm a man so densely he dies of suffocation.
 
Weldabeast said:
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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I don’t know man, raccoons swim in the river and marsh by my house. A contraption like that might encourage them more. Just imagine they grab a hen or a couple eggs then purposely get on the chucker for a fast escape lol
 
Nutterbuster said:
I honestly think having chickens and shooting predators off of them is more fun that turkey hunting. Is it bad i was pricing predator lights and the cost of building g a staircase up to the roof?
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I’m the same way. I offer to cur the coyote problems in the neighborhoods in my areas. People cry about them eating their cats and small dogs. I say I have a non evasive approach. A tree, some bait and a predator light for the stabilizer of the bow
 
SNIPERBBB said:
Send me your address to me so when my nuisance trapping friends catch a skunk that's been relocated so they know who to send skunks or cleaning bills to. Relocated (illegal in most states FYI)skunks don't take kindly to being caught again. They'll spray anything alive that comes near them. No chance at all to calm them down. They stay pissed off.
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Did you miss the .45 pill? Relocating LIVE nuisance animals without a permit is illegal in many states. Nowhere in his post did he say he relocated a live animal after it took a .45 pill. Or did I miss something?
 
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