Can you hunt raccoons effectively without dogs?

[flashman2]

Just put out a bag of garbage in Toronto.
All the coons you'd want and then some.

 

[flashman2]

I've had good luck using a Ford Focus. Sometimes taking out three at a time.

That made me laugh in a way that isn't totally healthy.

 

[redbirddog]

Life's just better with hounds....so is hunting.

You can get coons without dogs. You will just spend ten times more doing it.

 

[Neilm]

I agree with hunter 148. I grew up in SW Ontario. On a warm fall day when the sun is shinning and leaves are of I have shot many sunning themselves in the treetops. This good weather for squirrels. The ones I shot were delicious. the were close to corn fields. Racoons eating Freshwater clams an crayfish may have a different flavour.
You can only at night with dogs licensed for night hunting.

 

[titch--]

If you can locate a den tree set up an e-caller a few yards from the base and play raccoon fight on it. They often respond pretty good to it and come out of the tree to investigate the fight.

https://youtu.be/2dIz0PzndGo

Ive used the foxpro and called one out of the den before. Pretty fricken exciting I must say, cause it came screaming out and sounded pissed. Shot it right in the eye with the HMR.

 

[AP]

Does the dog have to be alive???

you got yourself one of them ‘Norwegian Blue Tick Hounds’ ??

 

[medvedqc]

Try a large size live trap with table scraps. Works great. Especially if you are worried about nocturnal discharges....lol.

i did that for few summers for coons control and it worked well but i was following the law under pest control and no it wa snot in the Yukon ....

 

[holzmeister]

Curious to know if anyone here has any effective method of hunting raccoons without dogs, particularly at night. Would definitely be interested in hunting them if I didn't have to use hounds.

I have had great success during the day, or at dusk.

 

[Galt]

the rule says a licenced dog. There is no breed specifications, you can take your neighbours labradoodle mutt, only the licenced dog is mandatory, not a dog with hunting ability.

My Dalmatian is the licensed one for me.. just so I can shoot them while sitting on the picnic table at the trailer.

 

[lbo]

CCI quiet rounds do wonders.... just saying

subsonic

 

[Zantarthewise]

Curious to know if anyone here has any effective method of hunting raccoons without dogs, particularly at night. Would definitely be interested in hunting them if I didn't have to use hounds.

Who are you, evil businessman Cyril Sneer?

 

[holzmeister]

subsonic

If you want to wake up the neighborhood sure.... Oh I do miss my Moderator!

 

[lbo]

If you want to wake up the neighborhood sure.... Oh I do miss my Moderator!

no neighbors to wake up lol

 

[buzzmagoo]

Cat food as bate draws them in( specialy the can smelly stuff ) sentinel light of some kind( doesn`t bother them ) and have at them live traps with strong latches to hold them shut .

 

[uglydukwling]

The best bait I've found is Ramik Green (a brand of mouse poison). I had a sealed 10 kg plastic pail or it in my barn. They destroyed the pail to get to the poison and ate every crumb of it. I didn't find a dead coon, so I guess it didn't hurt them. Now I use it to bait traps. It serves a dual purpose. If the mice eat it, it will kill them. If the coons eat it, they'll trip the trap and I'll shoot them.

 

[Papaclaude]

Sounds like a job for a Master Baiter. Are you one?