Dominion Link
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Frog legs?
Raccoons
- Thread starter Qhergt
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Frog legs?
Not sure where to place these little bandits in the top 3 of the list along with coyotes and possums... they tend to die of lead poisoning around my place.
As for eating them, a friend of mine's Mom swore by them... I guess the trick is to make sure you roast them on a rack so the fat drips out or it taints the flavour... I havent really been that hungry yet
As for eating them, a friend of mine's Mom swore by them... I guess the trick is to make sure you roast them on a rack so the fat drips out or it taints the flavour... I havent really been that hungry yet
Don't know if it would work as well for coons, (don't have raccoons here) but i used to hammer muskrats with a slingshot that had magnum bands on it, a 3/8 steel ball bearing used to kill a skrat dead every time, most of the time the skrat would be absolute mush all the way from the entry on one side right through to where the bearing was caught by fur on the other side.
I was interested in hunting them to eat, then someone on huntingbc.ca posted this link.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/4/01-0273_article.htm
Its about Raccoon Roundworms, and it creeped me out enough that I dont want to eat them.
For the guys that do kill them (even if you dont eat them), handle with gloves!
And if you have very young kids, take note:
Because the disease is transmitted by the fecal-oral route, human cases of B. procyonis infection typically occur in younger age groups, mainly infants, who often engage in oral exploration of their environment and are therefore more likely to be exposed
Dont let your kids eat raccoon turds.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/4/01-0273_article.htm
Its about Raccoon Roundworms, and it creeped me out enough that I dont want to eat them.
For the guys that do kill them (even if you dont eat them), handle with gloves!
And if you have very young kids, take note:
Because the disease is transmitted by the fecal-oral route, human cases of B. procyonis infection typically occur in younger age groups, mainly infants, who often engage in oral exploration of their environment and are therefore more likely to be exposed
Dont let your kids eat raccoon turds.
Dominion Link
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I would recommend everyone try to get out for an evening of coon hunting with your local coonhound crowd. It may be a one off, but very few hunters who try, don't like it. It can be tough going as the hound(s) is going to go where the coon does- might be up a hardwood next to a corn field, might be in a thick, dirty swamp. Usually you try to avoid casting the hounds near dirty areas. It's generally great fun, casting the hounds, listening as they strike and work a track and then tree the coon(s). There's nothing else that we can hunt at night, and it can lead to a lot of new hunting opportunities on private property as there are no shortage of farmers that will gladly let coon hunters on their land.
Possum have been showing up around my neck of the woods for quite a few years now- more and more dead on the road every summer. I've only seen one live one myself, but I would shoot everyone of them that I saw. They aren't native to Ontario and they commonly carry a brain worm- EPM- that effects horses when they ingest it while grazing where possums have defecated. I'm only aware of one horse in my area that has been infected, but that's one too many.
I have seen possums twice in London. Once on my front yard, and once in my open trash can in the back yard. He was banging around inside the steel can and I thought it was a coon. When I looked in, he politely and slowly climbed out and ambled off. Ugly looking things.
We have had possums around this area and more so south of here on the northshore of Lake Erie for about 10 yrs... supposedly they were hitching rides on the freight trains (was alot of automotive in the area bringing parts up from the southern states) They are marginal for the weather here with a high winter kill if we get a real winter but with last winter being so warm, I think they all survived. I have trapped and shot about 10 so far this year (my kids raise rabbits, so they are "unwanted" around home)... my brother inlaw who is a trapper, had problems this year with them getting into his coon sets.
They are ugly little critters, mean as *$%#, and hard to kill but they do have a nice pelt when tanned out (brother inlaw did a few a couple years ago but oly got 25 cents per for them... hardly worth the effort!)
Thanks for the read. I guess I have to find a coon hunter and make a shooting card for possum lol
New Camper
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- Lurking in the woods near SFRC.
Perhaps this is the same disease that the country refuses to accept is pandemic? Not native to Ontario, brain worm, debilitating EPM disease of the brain ... Sounds like socialism. It affects people who have grazed where mainstream media has previously defecated/deposited socialist tripe.
I've only seen one possum in my life: Travelling a road near Sarnia, this giant rat ran across the road and was taken out by the axle of my car. Quite proud of having killed the only possum I ever saw.
antiqueguy
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nope been there done that only thing you can use to hunt in windsor and lets say it pissed it of more then it did any damage i heard the pellet bounce down the metal fire escape it was on. these where hugh ones and they used to come onto the porch at night
A 3/8 steel ball bearing travelling faster than you can see is bouncing off a raccoon, they must be armour plated!
I am not talking about a normal kids slingshot, the package that came with this one had a warning on it that it could cause serious injury out to 500 yds.
i used to shoot the plastic milk jugs full of water at 20 yds, more often than not the steel ball would go through both sides, i figure if a raccoon got hit by it it would definatly do more than just piss it off.
antiqueguy
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- windsor ontario
i had black theraband tube witch is the stongest tube most people could still pull (i use double theraband gold on my flat band shooters)
i could not see th ball as it was pitch black but it bounced off and you could here in going down stair after stair on that fire escape it mite have broken ribs but that would be about it
i like using lead round balls over steel now ive taken many squirrel and rabbit with them (a .454 round ball will wreck a rabbits day)
Hate them with a passion ! Also a while back had a couple rabbid ones around my place before a I had my pal, took care of them with a shovel to the melon, now i take my 22mag to the giant rats!
A learned passion form my father, I was 5 and can still rememeber watching my dad killing the bastards tearing up our garbage, killed one with a piece of rebar like a skewering
And I dont know about anywhere else but down here i southern ontario they are huge, well fed from all of our garbage I suspect.
A learned passion form my father, I was 5 and can still rememeber watching my dad killing the bastards tearing up our garbage, killed one with a piece of rebar like a skewering
And I dont know about anywhere else but down here i southern ontario they are huge, well fed from all of our garbage I suspect.
antiqueguy
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- windsor ontario
around here i think there reaching 30lb or more
handofzeus
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- Trout Creekish Ontario.
I'm not fond of the bandit-eyed varmints but oppossums are really getting overwhelming in S. Ont. The damn things are everywhere!!!
