Raccoon hunting with hand held call

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Any tips and tricks on calling in Raccoons but with a hand held call ? My neighbour is starting to have Raccoons coming around his place and I'd like take care of the problem. I would like to use a call to bring them in so I'm guessing it would work best at dusk. The trees in his area aren't that big so I'm not sure where they are hiding. He does have cattle shelters but I don't think that's where they are located.
Also, if the call works do they come in quick or cautious ? I wanted to use my 22 mag as he has cattle in the area and don't want to spook the cattle with loud shots like from a shotgun or centre fire rifle. I have shot Raccoons before but never by calling them in.
The weather is mild so I'd like to try and hunt them before it gets on the cold side and they disappear. Any ideas on how to take care of the problem without using traps ? Anyway, thanks for any tips.
 
i've never tried it my self, but i've heard if you can get close to where they are spending their days and call, you can get them to poke their heads out long enough for a shot. good luck.
 
Haven't had luck with a handcall but guys in the states are having some pretty decent luck with E calls and coon distress sounds. Look up MC squallers on YouTube and you will see what I mean.
 
I’ve never used a hand call either, I have used an e caller to coax a sow out and dispatch her. I used baby raccoons distress. She came running out of an alfalfa field in the middle of the day. This was on a friends farm and she was killing chickens. You could go to the foxpro website and listen to the samples of coon pup distress and try and mimic them. Not sure which call you’d use though. Maybe a jackrabbit distress call?
 
If handcalls are the only option then I'd get my hands on a "coon squaller" closed reed call and probably a bite reed or open reed call that can mimic bird distress. I make a few that will do bird distress but have yet to make a coon squaller that sounds worth a dang.
 
I’ve actually never heard of it until now, I’ve always had better luck baiting them than anything else, like others mentioned cat foods, cooked eggs, anything pungent. One night I left one of my hens out in a dog crate, she kept calling out to the coop and eventually the bastard showed up. Last time he killed any of my birds, fed him a little 000-000-Slug from the ole Turkneli M4.
 
When I have a problem with coons I setup live traps and dogless leg hold traps with a cellular camera ‘overwatch’. 90% of the coons are trapped between 11pm-2am.
I will go out and dispatch the coon immediately because a large coon can damage a live trap in his struggles to escape. Cat food, fish products, table scraps for bait and a .22lr subsonic to the head for attitude readjustment.
 
Mr Bill said:
90% of the coons are trapped between 11pm-2am.
I will go out and dispatch the coon immediately because a large coon can damage a live trap in his struggles to escape. Cat food, fish products, table scraps for bait
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Rarely do we see them during the day.

All animals on our property get a free pass and none are killed unless they cause a problem with the other animals or create property damage to the barns and sheds or damage my wifes gardens.
Killing them just because they are on the property just living and surviving doesnt make any sense to me.
 
coons can destroy almost anything build a coon trap box dog proof cat proof and works cheap and easy .....deadly first set ...no danger of bullets flying around or loss of your time ontario trapping association for plans or contact me..
 
FatCatsDad said:
Killing them just because they are on the property just living and surviving doesnt make any sense to me.
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If raccoon would stay away, I would agree but I know how they become a problem and would rather take care of them before they end up at my place as I do other critters. I've had my share of problem with wood chucks, beavers, squirrel, chipmunk, skunks and the occasional rats. Anything in the rodent family is taken care of but I leave everything else alone.
 
All it takes is a neighbour to put dead stock poultry in a compost pile and your no problem coons are now a major problem, and in massive numbers. Ask me how I know.
 
Caught the cat once in a live trap. No coons. Dog treed a half dozen one time. Kept them in the tree till I finally got up to see what shes barking at:)
 
350tracker said:
If raccoon would stay away, I would agree but I know how they become a problem and would rather take care of them before they end up at my place as I do other critters. I've had my share of problem with wood chucks, beavers, squirrel, chipmunk, skunks and the occasional rats. Anything in the rodent family is taken care of but I leave everything else alone.
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If we all did that, there wouldn't be any wildlife left.

Pre-emptive extermination seems a tad over reaching.

Maybe I'm the odd man out on mass extermination, but I cant be convinced that any animal that happens to cross my property needs to be killed just because they passed the property lines.
 
FatCatsDad said:
If we all did that, there wouldn't be any wildlife left.

Pre-emptive extermination seems a tad over reaching.

Maybe I'm the odd man out on mass extermination, but I cant be convinced that any animal that happens to cross my property needs to be killed just because they passed the property lines.
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Well they ain’t bad eaten and their hide makes a good hat. But they can be a big problem especially groups of them they can eat up and good bit of a grain field in a night. They also damage buildings go after poultry eat your garden. Since I’m in town I can’t choot em but I do live trap them and move these elsewhere.
 
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