Racoons

[Magyars]

Here on the Freehold we have been battling coons for the last month or so.
I have caught 1/2 dozen in live traps and my dogs have dispatched a couple more ( Good Girls! )
Anybody else noticing an uptick in racoon numbers?

 

[yetti462]

My squirrel dog has treed several here lately. Nothing out of norm around me.

 

[larcat]

@jedi

 

[jedi]

At OP keep up the fight.
A dead raccoon is the only kind of good raccoon.

You probably ran into a family of them. Until you dispatch to hell the mamma raccon the family is still going to be around.

Oreos with peanut butter in a trap is one of their favorites.

 

[boosteds13cc]

I’ve had this same problem 2 years ago. Just keep being persistent.
My go to for bait is marshmallows

 

[tmschuller]

same here. A constant battle to keep them out of the barn. Getting ready to clean out the hay mound and start loading it up... I have several bales with crap all over. Awful creatures. Here’s one i shot a month or so back. It was healthy... dead coon is a good one. No love for trash pandas

 

[DadSmith]

Got these on a good night last season. Our Redbone treed all three one right after another.

Also there are so many distemper is killing them off as well. I've seen many with distemper the last few years.

 

[Hkindiana]

A couple of years ago, I trapped 49 in less than a month - with just one trap. My record was four in the trap at once, with several 3’s, and many 2’s.

 

[DadSmith]

A couple of years ago, I trapped 49 in less than a month - with just one trap. My record was four in the trap at once, with several 3’s, and many 2’s.

To bad fur prices are so low the middle coon in the picture got $7 for him. I got him right in the heart so very little damage he was a little over 19lbs.

The other two were around $2.50 each.

Now here is the price of a coon skin coat. Someone is making a fortune off us hunters.

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[bwframe]

Dispatched a few last year. So far this year no signs. Hopefully, saying that out loud doesn't jinx me...

 

[Expat]

I usually trap and kill 4-5 each year and still sometimes have damage to the sweet corn patch. I hate coons.

 

[flatlander]

Had one removed that was trying to set up residence in my attic. Sonsuvbitches need to die

 

[NKBJ]

Pretty sure we have one. What else would have picked the lid on the bird seed?

Going on about ten years ago had a baby coon limping across the yard, little bitty and seriously hurt. By the time it was healed up enough to get around it was coming when I called it. Would come bailing out of a tree for a spice cookie. Finally had to relocate it for concern that the nearest neighbors would kill it when it went to go visit.

 

[KARP]

We've had them break into our attic twice in the last 15 years. I used live traps to evict them. I didn't relocate them because I didn't want them to end up being someone else's problem, I invested in a good pellet rifle.

 

[mom45]

The last year I had my chickens, I trapped 28 coons in 21 days. I still had more after that, but that first month I had the live traps out was insane. I have a bajillion here on my trail cameras but no longer have poultry so don't get too upset about them as long as they leave my bird feeders alone.

 

[spec4]

My routine was to trap them and shoot them in the trap. Then took them to the back of my property and the coyotes and buzzards did the rest. They are miserable animals. Bait was tuna fish.

 

[Delmar]

My routine was to trap them and shoot them in the trap. Then took them to the back of my property and the coyotes and buzzards did the rest. They are miserable animals. Bait was tuna fish.

I used to feed them to my chickens. Circle of life baby!

 

[Delmar]

We've had them break into our attic twice in the last 15 years. I used live traps to evict them. I didn't relocate them because I didn't want them to end up being someone else's problem, I invested in a good pellet rifle.

Indeed, making them someone else's problem is a horrible thing to do.

 

[Magyars]

We've had them break into our attic twice in the last 15 years. I used live traps to evict them. I didn't relocate them because I didn't want them to end up being someone else's problem, I invested in a good pellet rifle.

I have been told that per the DNR it is illegal to relocate.
You catch em you dispatch em.
That is my creed when it comes to the little bandits!

 

[yetti462]

I live close to the white river and have two substantial creeks on my farm. This prime bottom land gives me a year round supply of coons. My feist trees them, my boy traps them, and I call and shoot them.

The coon hunters around me have written permission to shoot year round. Only after a buddy got a ticket for shooting out of season.

I don't think I'll ever thin them out, but it sure is fun trying.