Raccoons

i shoot a few a year and i trap them on my street(big problem right now) of corse here in ontario i have to have the fur tanned

the meat its not that bad

a .22lr or shotgun with a #4 shot works ok but i like #2 shot better
 
I love coon hunting! I have 2 Plott hounds that I hunt with, and several of my friends have Blue Ticks, Plotts and Treeing Walkers. A few of my buddy's are diehard competition coon hunters. Coons are very thick, and grow big, in our neck of the woods. There's nothing else that you can hunt at night, and we can run them all year long. I get a lot of enjoyment out of unleashing a hound to go tearing off into the bush or through a corn field, and listening to it work out a track and finally tree Rocky.

The breeder that I got my Plotts from is in West Virginia- ht tp://pocahontasplotts.com/
 
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Fire at will!
 
Grizzly Adams said:
What kind of call do you use?


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I have my foxpro loaded with a raccoon fight sound scenario. I place it about 75 yards from the edge of a bushlot containing large trees. The little beggers love to live in old hollow trees and blowdowns like Maples. They usually cant stand the sounds of that fight for long, they think they are missing out on something good to eat......LOL! Got the idea from a hunting show a few years ago and it works well. They were able to get them to come out during their hibernation even, I havent been that fortunate but come April it draws them well.
 
I used to have them come up the stairs to my deck.
Since I can't discharge a firearm at the house this was my solution.
Picked up one of those King Arms full auto M1 Thompson airsofts when they were on sale @ Princes Auto
Needless to say they don't come up the stairs any more :D
 
When I detect that they are around I place a dish full of cat food under my yard light. Then I take the screen out of my second story bedroom window. Then it's about a 40 yard shot with the 10-22. My wife sometimes gets mad when I wake her up with gunfire.

In the open field I use my Tikka T3 .204 Ruger.

Last year a few of them over-wintered inside my combine and chewed some wires. I got off easy. Another farmer in the area had some inside when he fired his combine up in the spring. They went through the separator fan and did $30 000 ish damage.

Fire at will!
 
Have them crap on the rad of the combine, there crap is corrosive and eats the steel rad. 2000 dollars latter and a lot of work. Hate the things like rats.
 
WASNTME said:
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I immediately thought of this show when I saw the thread title...

I shot a coon with my bow one time. Tough little bastards. Broke an arrow and tried to attack me afterwards. I'll shoot them with a .22 from now on :)
 
Used to trap most things around here: Southern Ontario had a Raccoon rabies scare when I was trapping but I never encountered anything of that sort.

They are easy to catch using a 220 conibear trap: A simple pole attach to a tree with bait on end, trap part way up works almost flawlessly... there is that one raccoon that thought he was karate kid, instead of walking through the trap, tested his reflexes, failing miserably to beat the trap and had to be dispatched through other means. I've even caught them in sets designed for beaver and otter.

Nuissance and opportunistic scavengers: They raid nests, mess up barns and equipment, a good raccoon is one drying on a stretcher.
 
They can kill you with the diseases they carry. Some people think they're cute and cuddly I don't think so I spray them with a water hose and they keep out of my yard big time I also have a dog that wants to chomp on them when they enter the yard so that helps too they go around the other side of the fence once they get to my yard they hope over so I can't spray them its kind of funny to see them do that they know my yard is a bad area to go in so they go around instead. I can't shoot them city bylaw and that and it could be a saftey issuse don't take the shot unless you know were your bullet is going to go.
 
I was driving turning a corner, this huge fat basterd of a recoon was trying to run but was more like a waddle. He could barely trot away from my car. Made me basically stop and i had to wait till the basterd walked tried to run away. He was so fat I couldn't believe my eyes. That one eats ver very well.
 
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