I'll try that tomorrow. Tonight's menu is breadsticks, pizza and a whole lot of hate.
No sure the logistics of it but my favorite mouse trap ever is the electric one. It has two metal plates that are close but don't touch each one has a lead connected to batteries. I smear a little peanut butter in the back of the trap and when those little feet touch the front and back plates its instant game over. If you could make a large scale one that would be BA.
Yeah I'm not going in there after it with a gun. I don't see that ending well for me, the coon or the house. The door broke this winter without my knowledge, and by the time I realized it, it was too late.
I should have been more specific, what I was thinking was sit at the entrance with a .22 and a bright flashlight. Not crawl in there with a .357
'guns are bad, mkay'. Knife? Pepper spray? Paintball gun? BB gun? Anything to skirt him toward the opening?
scurry around and flank him out the opening?
It's just a coon. Hell I'd give it a whirl. I'll try anything once.
If that doesn't work, drop something soaked with coyote urine down there. Hopefully it's not a mom looking to have her babies under there. We had a momma coon crawl in our chimney and into the attic to have her litter. Three sides of the chimney were doused with yote urine. She got the babies out overnight. Then we replaced the chimney cover.