Racoons

[Blake22]

I have really bad coon problem at all my deer feeders.  Anyone else having this problem?? 
I've trapped a few...not gaining any ground tho.

[Texas Ranger]

Baked coon and sweet taters, back to the old days.

[DelawhereJoe]

.22 mag or a .17 hmr with a red dot sight and a few of the solar led security lights set up. If you have hogs too, well step up according.

[Blake22]

I can sell all I kill or catch...  Its just hard to kill nocturnal feeders.

[Blake22]

I do have a hog problem. Slowly working on them too.

[DelawhereJoe]

Do you have a trail camera set up at your feeders, if so you should be able to see when the little fuzz balls come around and spent a night or a few nights removing your problems. Maybe try some T shot from closer range and get a few with 1 shot. With the hogs maybe wait till you get 2 lined up and use something that will pass cleanly through both....not the most recommend...but it can work.

[thecfarm]

Kinda like gray squirrels that come to the bird feeders. Shot 4-5 one day and shot 4-5 the next and shot 4-5 the next,it never stops.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I have a trail camera on one of my feeders and getting lots of coons at it. I have seen them at my other one at dusk. My hide buyer is not buying them this year so I have not trapped or killed any. They aren't getting that much of my corn. I am seeing tracks in my barn around my mule trough. I need to set a live trap and catch and let them go and let Sampson chase and tree them.

   Doves and turkeys are wiping me out.

[Blake22]

I do have trail cams out.  Just checked 2 of them.... the coons come & go all night long. Had 12 on corn pile in one pic.  I don't mind feeding the coons but with them there all night I can't tell what anything about the deer. I'm sure I'm missing pics of good bucks.

[LaneC]

  There is a huge demand for them for the Super bowl. A lot of folks like to grill them while watching the game. I used to give most of them away when I coon-hunted but have not been able to in a long time. they will not go to waste. Even if you want to give them away, they will be eaten, and the folks you give them to will be happy. Just say around at the feed store or something, that you have some to get rid of and 'they will call".

[Peter Drouin]

Eat the thing,    You guys got to be kidding.

[LaneC]

   Yep :D :D. They usually serve them with sweet potatoes and they say they are good. I personally do not eat them, nor have I tried them, however a lot of folks are happy to eat them.

[Magicman]

 

 

[Blake22]

I can sell or give away as many as I can catch or kill.  I have eaten some a few times.... pretty good but I don't make a habit of it.....

[WDH]

I only had coon once.  I would rather eat spoiled sauerkraut.  But, all sauerkraut is spoiled, right?

[thecfarm]

You Southern guys sure do eat some odd stuff,grits,collard greens,racoons,

[Dave Shepard]

I only had coon once.  I would rather eat spoiled sauerkraut.  But, all sauerkraut is spoiled, right?

I'll agree with you there, although I'm not sure sauerkraut can spoil.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Never tried one baked with sweet potatoes. When we first married my wife cooked a big old boar coon as a roast in a brow-n-bag like a neighbor had told her. It was so bad the dogs wouldn't eat the taters off of it.

   We have taken young coons and boiled them tender and used the meat to make hash (fried up 5-6 diced taters with a big chopped onion and added the meat and seasoned it good) and that was good. Made BBQ out of one one time that we took to a church party and it went over big. (Till one lady figured out what it was and after 2-3 sandwiches nearly got sick thinking about it.)

[LaneC]

 There are a few glands that have to be removed before you eat them. I am sure you removed them :D :D :D.  Wait a minute, grits and collards don't have a dog in this fight :D :D. Nuttin rong wit grits and collards ;D

[LaneC]

  I like the CA mount. worked with them all my life. A lot of good folks, as long as they are "registered" :D

[DanG]

I et some coon one time. Ol' Earl Williams(R.I.P.) brung a grill to work one day and cooked some for us. It weren't all that bad, but it ain't something I would go out of my way for.  You can get good money for a dressed coon in certain parts of Tallahassee, but you gotta leave one foot on to show that it ain't a house cat.  ;) :D :D

[Blake22]

There are a few glands that have to be removed before you eat them. I am sure you removed them :D :D :D.  Wait a minute, grits and collards don't have a dog in this fight :D :D. Nuttin rong wit grits and collards ;D

You're right about those glands. "musk glands"   They're about the size of a pea located in the leg and shoulder joints.

[Magicman]

You Southern guys sure do eat some odd stuff,grits,collard greens,racoons,

Nope, I do not eat raccoon or collard greens, and I have not eaten grits since tonight with my supper.   

[DanG]

You don't eat collard greens????  You gonna lose your Southern Gentleman card if you don't watch it!  : :D :D

[doctorb]

Brazen little buggers.  One night, I watched one sitting on a picnic table as my friend approached.  The coon just sat there hissing at him.  Didn't move when he tried to shoo him away, so he hit him on the head with a long-handled flashlight.  Coon just slowly walked away.  Never tasted racoon.  Have no great desire to do so.

[coxy]

Kinda like gray squirrels that come to the bird feeders. Shot 4-5 one day and shot 4-5 the next and shot 4-5 the next,it never stops.

I like eating gray squirrels send some my way we don't have many here anymore every thing but me is eating them use to see 40-50 a day while deer hunting but if you see one all day your doing good  my grandma use to make gray squirrel and sauerkraut yum yum  ;D

[landscraper]

but you gotta leave one foot on to show that it ain't a house cat.  ;) :D :D

A discerning clientele requires assurances as to the authenticity of their purchases.  Who can blame them, cat only tastes good when it is labeled as teriyaki chicken  :D

[WDH]

Coxy,

Squirrel eater  :D. 

[coxy]

some one has to do it     and they don't taste like teriyaki chicken

[Blake22]

Limb rats make the best gravy....

[coxy]

Limb rats make the best gravy....

come on now you just had to say rats didn't you 

[DelawhereJoe]

Bushy tailed tree rats thats what I call them, I think its an appropriate name. Mind you they are more colorful then rats but still a tree rat.

[DelawhereJoe]

For the raccoons we have around here you more or less only have 1 chance to catch them in a cage / box that sits naked on the ground. If they go in and set it off and it doesn't lock them in you now have to put something around the cage to hide what it is. My in-laws had a problem with them eating all there cats food in there garage it would even lift the door to get in. She wanted me to use all kinds of different things as bait, I told here none of it would work but tryed it anyway. Once I went to what they were coming for, cat food, I trapped out 4 or 5 of them in a week.

[gspren]

  The "dog proof" coon traps work quite well if you are worried about your or your neighbors dogs, they are not cat proof but I don't really care for cats.

[hopm]

ultimate coon bait is honeybun sprinkled with grape koolaid mix. its like coon crack....they cant resist

[coxy]

ultimate coon bait is honeybun sprinkled with grape koolaid mix. its like coon crack....they cant resist

:D :D

[Dave Shepard]

They can't resist Golden Malrin fly bait either, but that goes for cats and dogs, too. They only make it a few steps away.

[coxy]

They can't resist Golden Malrin fly bait either, but that goes for cats and dogs, too. They only make it a few steps away.

[hopm]

They can't resist Golden Malrin fly bait either, but that goes for cats and dogs, too. They only make it a few steps away.

Yeah thats exactly right....

It is a violation of Federal Law to use this product in a
manner inconsistent with its labeling.

GOLDEN MALRIN, Fly Bait is a fly bait formula
containing Muscamone®
, Fly Attractant which
encourages both male and female flies to remain in
the treated area, thus feeding on the bait.

GOLDEN MALRIN FLY BAIT IS NOT TO BE USED INSIDE
OR AROUND HOMES, OR ANY OTHER PLACE WHERE
CHILDREN OR PETS ARE LIKELY TO BE PRESENT.

Do not apply this product in a way that will contact
workers or other persons. Only protected handlers
may be in the areas during application. Do not
contaminate feed and foodstuffs. Do not use the can
opener used to open this product on food containers.
Use a separate can opener. Do not apply where
poultry or other animals, especially dogs and young
calves, can pick it up or lick it. Do not use in homes
or where milk is processed or stored. Do not feed
treated garbage. Use only in areas inaccessible to
food producing animals, children, and pets.

[coxy]

They can't resist Golden Malrin fly bait either, but that goes for cats and dogs, too. They only make it a few steps away.

I way miss read that post I though it said Marlin  :

[terry f]

Poison is never a good idea

[Blake22]

I'm against poison also.   No good can come from that.

[Jemclimber]

The dog proof coon traps work very well.  Cats won't try to fish out a marshmallow with some sunflower seeds in them and the curious nature of coons make them work awesome.  I had a problem with coons on my back porch this summer till I bought a few a these traps.  I think 21 in 21 days was the total before they were no longer a problem.

[Blake22]

I set a dozen dog proof traps today............wish me luck!!!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

My dad (90) has 10 traps. Its the type that the door slams when the Coon goes in the trap to 
get the bait.
Thats his thing checking the traps in the mornings.
He has caught a lot of cats. Just open the door and the cats run away. In fact it scares the cats so bad they don't mess with the traps anymore.
He has a guy that picks the Coons up that uses them to train Coon Dogs for hunting.

[WDH]

David,

Don't get caught yourself.  Sardines are good, but not that good that you get hauled off and chased by coon dogs. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

David,

Don't get caught yourself.  Sardines are good, but not that good that you get hauled off and chased by coon dogs.

say_what Never thought of it that way.  :D

[Blake22]

Had a good week trapping.  I caught 14 coons!!!!!!

[Ron Scott]

Midnight Marauders, Robbing the Bear Bait.


 

[timberking]

Got a new crew showing up on my feeder.  Gonna knock the rust off the DPs.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I heard Sampson, my 13 lb Rat Terrier, barking about midnight last night and told my wife he must have chased another coon away from his dog food feeder as he quit barking pretty quickly. A few minutes ago I walked out of the house then when I walked back up on the porch I looked up and this little guy startled me. I guess he spent a long night there in the rafters on the front porch. I took this picture then grabbed him by the tail and tossed him on the porch for Sampson to chase. Sampson is a real good knock around buddy but he is no fool and just watched him run jump off the porch. After he cleared the yard Sampson would go smell his trail but did not put himself in harms way.