Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: BowEd on May 19, 2017, 11:56:37 am
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Well it's time for me to try to change the habits of these coon around here again.Tonight!!!They wreck my bird feeders.I've shot them with a daisy before lots of times trying to do change it the kind way and it never works.I've set the solution maker by the door now.A .22 with some CCI stinger long rifles in it.That always cures the problem.
Usually they are'nt that much of a problem this time of year with food sources more then adequate in the creek and woods.They are opportunists though so I don't blame them,but it's gonna stop tonight!
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They sure can make a mess
Bjrogg
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I'd bet it's a mother coon with kits to boot.They are half monkey and incredibly strong for their size using their paws.
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Buy a dog proof trap and drop something tasty in it for bait. I use mini peanut butter cookies. They work great. I removed over 20 coons and possums from my yard each summer for the last 2 years.
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That's right I do have a bunch of live traps.Done that many many times though for training and relocating coon.They need to be hauled at least 5 miles away to never come back I've found.I always used large marshmellows for bait.Don't catch as many cats then.
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If you give them a dose of lead you don't have to haul them 5 miles away.
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If you give them a dose of lead you don't have to haul them 5 miles away.
And a nice hat if you're careful with shot placement, lol.
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I solved my raccoon problem by not preferentially feeding other wildlife. ;)
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Call me crazy, but I like my coon skin quiver
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I solved my raccoon problem by not preferentially feeding other wildlife. ;)
I prefer when the wildlife feeds me -C-
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My coon problem was due to them messing with our goats and rabbits.
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A good cur dog will take care of coons. And cats, possums, groundhogs, and anything else it deems dangerous.
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I like my wildlife of all kinds.Birds too.I enjoy sitting still for hours at a time observing.Drives Robin nuts!!!I'll take care of it like I usually do.Too bad their not furred up good.
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Mini marshmellows sprinkled with Cherry Kool-Aid work very well in the Dog Proof traps. I usually use the AR22 - they don't come back :laugh:. Bob
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Trouble solved.
I've counted them before over time here.At least 23 different types of birds feeding.7 different types of woodpeckers,plus a lot of other different types song birds.
My neighbors were into feeding these birds and I just kinda got into it too.
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Ed you should sew the kits together and make a quiver, that way the family stays together for life :)
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Cute Chris.Your all heart.The coon that got shot were'nt nursing anyway.Besides I already got a coon quiver.A vest & another for my Dad too.I was going to make a quilt once out of coon hides.Had it all planned out too.It was going to take 28 coon.Decided to stick with my buffalo robes.I think I made a bag out of one for the christmas exchange last winter too.I have live trapped a mother and her whole litter before though and relocated them.Took some time but they all stayed together.
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Very cool Ed. You do nice work
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Very cool indeed. That vest is sweet.
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I left myself an option with that vest to attach sleeves and a collar too but never got around to doing that.Used to have the surging machine for those projects.By hand can take some time.Made plenty of hats also.Used to sell them for $35.00 a piece.Coon have been good to me.
My Dad used to wear the vest and a coon hat around town which I got a kick out of.
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Hi Ed, We have monkey hands.
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Yep...They're strong little devils.I used to raise them too.Had a breeding pair long ago.Getting amazingly big when fed good old dogfood.40 to 45 pound coons.I used to siene the flooded water holes in the pastures for crawdads.Five gallon pales at a time.Funny watching the young baby coon try to eat crawdads.They would get them stuck all over themselves....lol.
People think coon wash their food.I think they need moisture to swallow it really.
Boar on the right and sow on the left in their early years.
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They are tasty also, as long as the gland is removed.
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I had a coworker who had a momma coon & lil one problem. An exterminator quoted him $700 to remove them. I told him to go to Academy & get some coyote urine .... put it on cotton balls & throw it around in his attic.. they bugged out that night & I only charged him a coke.
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Tower...I'm glad that worked for you.A nice kind way also.Over the years I've been called on to move or get rid of pests people have too.Usually with the live trap.Ground hogs/skunks/possums/coon/and sometimes squirrels too yet.
It's ridiculous the the charge some exterminators charge that's for sure.
mullet...We used to eat coon pretty regular years ago.A friends wife would make tavern meat out of the whole coon.Pretty good really.Yes those lymph glands need to be removed in their arm pits.Practically all of the fat removed also before baking.
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It seems I have a litter of yearlings pestering me here.I got rid of 2.Now a third has appeared.That's ok.I've got plenty of bullets.
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I use to trap about 70 a year when they were worth something. Way to much work for $4. They really do have a very nice pelt and nice leather to. The woods coon are always nicer than the barn coon. Everyone thinks they hibernate but they don't truly hibernate. They come trickling out through the winter and they are very hungry. Looking at that vest thinking dang that looks sweet Ed. Might have to harvest and tan a few next winter. Get some real prime before they rub.
Bjrogg
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When I lived in the city the neighborhood alcoholic once approached me all lit up saying, "watch out for the city coons around here... they travel in herds and they're as big as German Shepherds!"
I payed it no mind until one night I went outside and watched 5 or 6 of the biggest darn coons I ever saw come squeezing out the chimney and onto the roof of the abandoned house next door (A)
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Even the woods coons can get pretty darned big! I went out with a buddy many years ago on a Friday night, and we bagged 3 that weighed in nearly 30 lbs each and were able to get the hounds put up and fed and still make it to the dancehall to party! One of his friends said he thought we were going coon hunting and my buddy said we did, figured 3 was enough for one night >:D! The guy thought we were bs'ng him, because it wasn't even 10pm. That was before the big city moved out to Wright City, MO area. May not be enough room to run a coon there anymore.
Hawkdancer
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This crazy thing keeps vermin out of my bird feeders.
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One day I was waiting for my date on a corner
in Yonkers NYC.
Roosevelt Raceway was across the street.
I watched two big ole coons walk down along the curb
and into the Dairy Queen. As they were searching for
dropped sweets, two youngsters walked in.
The coons left in a hurry with the kids running after them,
one screaming "Get them, they got fur coats."
Zuma
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Well after about a week of quiet now I hope the coon here have been backed off some.Total count at the moment is 4 shot coon and 5 live trapped and relocated.I imagine the low fur prices have a lot to do with the increase in numbers.
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Glad you got it under control. It took me 2 summers to thin them out around my house. So far I've only had to shoot one this year.
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Well I've been here for 14 years.Some years there's more then others but this year the numbers are a bit higher yet.Never completely get rid of them though.I'm surprised for not seeing more opposum.
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I've found that whenever a paticular species gets over populated mother nature has a way of righting the ship too with diseases.Coyotes here suffer from mange badly when too many numbers occur too.With coon I see distemper get them.
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Mother nature does that with humans too
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Yea, but humans often step in and thwart Mother Nature's efforts and the problem only gets worse.
I was going to buy some dog proof coon traps at the Gander Mountain in town that was going out of business. At first they were 10% off, they had at least a dozen of them, then 20% but I knew if I waited a week they would be 30% off. I rolled in on Monday to get the traps at 30% off but I was too late, someone had beat me to them and they all were gone.
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Shoot one, leave it lay around a couple days then get rid of it,before it smells too bad. Always cures them from around my chicken pens for a year or two...
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Shoot one, leave it lay around a couple days then get rid of it,before it smells too bad. Always cures them from around my chicken pens for a year or two...
That doesn't work for the coons in my area.
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Shoot one, leave it lay around a couple days then get rid of it,before it smells too bad. Always cures them from around my chicken pens for a year or two...
That doesn't work for the coons in my area.
No but lead works good eh😉