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DMiller 
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 Topic: Coon has become a real problem
Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 3:23am |
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Live traps NOT working, seems to know what will happen and skirts around them. Gets on the house decl and schitts, all over the place. Wife had enough the other day gave Okie Dokie to drop the woodland rat.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 7:48am |
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thats what i do... Introduce them to 22 ... No Repeat offenders.... Wife has cat food on the front porch... If they come at night to eat, i bring the food in at 11 PM... Within a week the rats figure out to come at 10:30 .... Problem solved... I go to the side door 50 feet away.. clean shot right off the end of the deck...... same with possum.
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 2:36pm |
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2-3 large Marshmallows in live trap usually work?
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DiyDave
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 4:13pm |
I prefer Duke's dog proof hand hold traps, and shoot at your leisure, steada waiting in the dark... 
I use stinky fishy cat food, smear some in a line, perpendicular line to a path he walks, about head high (coon's head) on objects like shrubs, trees, fence posts, etc, at the far end of the line, put the trap, at a 45, as shown in the vid. A spoonful of cat food, then a jumbo marshmallow, spiked on the trigger of the trap...
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 4:17pm |
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son used one of them... caught the kids CAT in it..
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55allis
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 6:24pm |
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Shoot them and get a coon hat….
Your wife would love that!!!
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jvin248
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 8:48pm |
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Some coons get too big for the regular "have a heart" live traps, so you can never catch them.
My father ended up building a bigger copy that caught the whoppers.
If yours is double ended, wire one door and put the bait there so they have to cross the trigger pan twice.
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Posted: 17 Nov 2024 at 8:51pm |
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 7:29am |
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Google dog proof coon trap . We have been using them at my friends 80 acre hunting farm over by Pittsfield Il. Very effective as we have caught over 30 coons and just as many possums. Canned cat food dry catfood and marshmallows work best. While turkey hunting we find the nest get raided and most of the turkey eggs are getting eaten . Hopefully the purge will help.
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You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 8:11am |
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Son does the same thing at they Duck Hunting Club as PAT.... Catch 100 coons a year and that builds up the turkey population ....... BUT.. they dont use them around the HOUSE due to the CATS..
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 19 Nov 2024 at 1:55pm |
Relocate the Possum's a couple miles down the road Relocate the Coon a foot or 2 deep .
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Posted: 20 Nov 2024 at 11:50am |
Anybody have special "STOCKHOLDERS" like O'l Shameless had that might us a critter or 3 in their barn? 
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DMiller
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Posted: 21 Nov 2024 at 8:03am |
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As of last night our Trash Panda departed this world, C/O Remington and Co..
Big Sow, feeding the coyotes and vultures this morning.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2024 at 6:31am |
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I am going to try this. Board ramp to a 300 gal. chemical tank. Stinky bait. A few holes for smell to get out. I don't think they can jump out if they will drop in. 22 extraction method.
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Dave H
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Posted: 24 Nov 2024 at 9:38am |
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Lets give the coons a break. Move on eh!
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55allis
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Posted: 24 Nov 2024 at 11:04am |
Dave, the o’ll coons don’t give us a break!
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Posted: 24 Nov 2024 at 7:02pm |
I built a special cage out of a tool crib, to keep the coons out of my bags of range cubes. It would not be so bad if they just opened one bag but when they open a bunch of bags......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!! They open them all for fun. The storage cage is doing a good job keeping them out of the cubes. Now to build a coon proof bagged cat food storage.
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 24 Nov 2024 at 9:40pm |
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Back growing up on the farm my grandfather did not like hunting. He allowed my brother and I to hunt but 100 percent legal, free chase and you better eat ,use as much as possible. But raccoons were a different story. It was open season year round and he could care less how you did it or what you did with it afterwards. He hated them with a passion. My father claimed it was the coons destroying the sweet corn that really set him off. My grandfather claimed the coons would wait until the night before he planned to harvest to destroy the crop.
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You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails
1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2024 at 2:37pm |
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I used peanut butter in trap and 22 to dispose of them.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2024 at 4:14pm |
This just popped up in my youtube feed:
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