.177 caliber pellet brain shot for raccoon?
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simple answer is no, also against the hunting regs in BC, and if your in Victoria and use a hockey stick the BCSPCA gets the last word........
live trap baited with cat food and a big drum of water, if no barrel large enough place a cardboard box over the trap and cut a hole in the box at the same height as the exhaust pipe of your car/truck
live trap baited with cat food and a big drum of water, if no barrel large enough place a cardboard box over the trap and cut a hole in the box at the same height as the exhaust pipe of your car/truck
Yodave nailed it- tiny brain lots of bone on a raccoon if you consider it's size, easy to live trap but you gotta let them out more than a mile away... They've got a good sense of direction.
.. I figured It would take more than one to make a hat anyway
.. I figured It would take more than one to make a hat anyway
35 years on a chicken farm (God, has it been that long?) I can't count, literally can not count the number of raccoons I have killed over the years. Hundreds. Pellet guns have no business being used against anything other than pop cans. Just because it "can" be done, doesn't mean it should be done.
Of ALL the methods out there: .22 short, cci quiet or a cb at the very minimum. To the back of the head, 1/4" up from where the spine meets the skull, from behind when in a live trap, is really about the only "humane" death there is for a raccoon.
Hear about the "drowning method" used often enough, but seeing that's, the stuff of nightmares! And would really rather not have to kill them at all, if only the limp-wristed fruitcakes from the city would quit "ethically live trap and releasing" them on our property. I think the pest control companies do it too...
Of ALL the methods out there: .22 short, cci quiet or a cb at the very minimum. To the back of the head, 1/4" up from where the spine meets the skull, from behind when in a live trap, is really about the only "humane" death there is for a raccoon.
Hear about the "drowning method" used often enough, but seeing that's, the stuff of nightmares! And would really rather not have to kill them at all, if only the limp-wristed fruitcakes from the city would quit "ethically live trap and releasing" them on our property. I think the pest control companies do it too...
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I'm with coont except for the fact I hate raccoons and have no issue with killing them (i used to raise pheasants and coons are brutal killers) but I don't have it in me to drown anything. Pellet gun won't cut it. Live trap and a .22 is the way to go. Best coon bait there is is either marshmallows or glazed donuts. Those little buggers have a big time sweet tooth.
Ouch, yer a mean old fart aint you.
Why so inhumane?
Best to teach them swimming lessons ... but dont forget to let them outta the trap first
Rob
I'll give that a try I have a family living under my deck. I trapped one and the rest are to smart to go in. I tried hiding it in leaves, in a garbage bag. I started feeding the regular every night this week so tonight I'm going to sit on the roof with the bow and see if I can get one.
I trapped 7 in one night with a conibear set up in a box, tap was tied to a line that turned my light on so I knew when it was sprung.......had the neighborhood down to just a few after culling over 100 of the buggers. I relocated and talked to the old neighbors a couple years later and they told me the numbers were back up to around 200 in their gabage...........
I had a raccoon kill one of my geese before. The goose was trying to nest under a tarp at night and the coons just ripped it apart. They used to get my chickens and pigeons all the time, but know we have better cages.
Trap animal, put blanket over trap, put hose from vehicle exhaust under blanket. Make sure blanket it is wrapped reasonably well. Simple, easy, humane. Animal sleeps to death. Done it many times with 'coons, skunks, etc. Also has the benefit of being quiet in neighbourhoods where that counts.
