was driving to work or a party one night and smoked a big one with the tires right in front of a long line of tourists with the camper trailers. the brake lights in my mirror made the night.
Raccoons
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was driving to work or a party one night and smoked a big one with the tires right in front of a long line of tourists with the camper trailers. the brake lights in my mirror made the night.
badgreenbird
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- Location
- Dawson Creek, BC
I kinda miss them. I used to trap the odd one when I lived back east (especially when they caused trouble around the house) - but generally left them alone. Too cold & snowy for them in northern BC
I used to keep a koi pond in my back yard. Guaranteed draw for raccoons. I was in the city so couldn't do anything except turn on the hose. They hate the hose. BB guns, pellets just bounced off them and they'd stare at you like you were just an annoyance. I finally gave up the koi pond when the bald eagles got the word.
Yeah, a koi pond out here is a lesson about the food chain. Hey, that's life, all's fair...
I had raccoons using a part of my backyard as a toilet. Ammonia soaked rags didn't work. They pooped right beside it. I made a puree of scotch bonnet peppers and spread that around. That seems to be working. I have a trail cam set up and there's been nothing.
On a side note, the smell of the scotch bonnet puree made me cough and my eyes water. I don't know how anybody can eat those things!
On a side note, the smell of the scotch bonnet puree made me cough and my eyes water. I don't know how anybody can eat those things!
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
This gaze moved into the wrong barn. This was at my brother's place this morning. He used a 12ga.
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New Camper
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lurking in the woods near SFRC.
If you ask around the grapevine, you're sure to hear of a few "elixers" that will not attract anything but raccoons and that when consumed they never get a few feet from.
Necessity is the mother of all invention, and the guy who keeps losing to the mask menace is not averse to employing the most effective sentry devised from common beverages and other pest controls.
I have heard that fly bate mixed into cola to form a slurry kills them dead. BUT it also kills dogs, cats, birds and anything else that gets into it. I have never done it and wouldn't recommend it. There's lots of posts about this on the net.
My friend had the same chicken coop raiding going on. He lives on an acreage in a small town. He sat in a tree with his .22. Shot one the first night and nailed him to a post nearby. No more problems.
If you want to be really silent, try getting a crappy little crossbow for $100. Warning, racoons have a very loud scream when wounded, but at least the neighbors won't be calling the police due to gunfire.
Or invest in a powerful (subsonic) pellet gun. 1000 fps will get the job done.
Good luck, sorry about the livestock loss.
New Camper
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lurking in the woods near SFRC.
WASNTME said:
see what I mean?
I've seen the Flybait and tuna mixture work fabulously, but for a short time and maybe still now there was a new Flybait formula: If you try this method, make sure you buy the kind that is yellow (the old formula, as the new purple? stuff doesn't work) I've only heard about the Flybait and cola method working and I understood it didn't attract cats, otherwise it can be placed out of reach of most other animals. For the sake of birds, just don't leave the elixir out during the day. If cats aren't a "problem", I've seen the one can of tuna mixture version wipe out five coons in one night - they didn't get five feet from where it was set.I really don't give a crap if people think this cruel or inhumane: They certainly don't think about the expense to the victim of these saboteurs, who must work more to replace what was damaged.
Dominion Link
CGN frequent flyer
I can't speak from personal experience, but my father tells me that young, farm fed coon is very good. As well, there's a lot folks on the UKC Coonhound website who claim to eat, and enjoy, coon regularly.
