Raccoons

[rjthehunter]

If you do 1 DP, do 3. Once 1 is in the trap, there's usually more nearby. I've seen plenty of pairs and occasionally triples caught together!

I wouldn't use anything sticky personally. No reason to make a mess of the DP right away. Dog food in town would likely work really well. Throw a golfball on top if the mice keep eating all the dogfood.

 

[Steiny77]

It's a full time war around here with those varmints.
Caught 14 in the yard this spring in dog proofs and introduced them to Jesus.

 

[buckbull]

My dad would dispatch with a hickory stick.

 

[coleslaw]

 

[NEWHunter]

Make sure you get a good anchor on that DP. If it's not anchored down well you'll see your traps disappear real fast.

I bought the 2 foot rebar rods on the shelf next to the DPs. They held well. I don’t have any experience, but it didn’t seem like a coon would be able dislodge that stake.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I’ve lived trapped them successfully w/ a brushed-in cage using peanut butter & peppermint extract. Keeps possums, cats, and skunks from going in the trap.

 

[homestead]

I know you're in city limits, but you might consider using 22 cb shorts in a rifle. When I was a teen trapping, I'd use them behind a couple homes I trapped around and never had a problem with noise.

 

[Sheltowee]

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Dammit, you beat me to it!

 

[O C Hunter]

For cage traps, use hamburger grease on a piece of bread for bait.

 

[JDH]

We have the same rules regarding "humanely euthanizing" raccoons so I called my state's conservation officer once about what to do and they said if I lived in city limits one acceptable method was to drown them if I had a container big enough to drop the whole trap into. Luckily I don't live in the city so I never had to go that route.

I do have close neighbors however so I ended up buying subsonic .22 rounds.

 

[outdoorman]

I plan to kill several of the pest raccoons in my suburban backyard that backs up to the woods.
Would a crossbow kill them quickly enough? What organ/anatomy to aim for if using a broadhead tip?

 

[outdoorman]

It's a full time war around here with those varmints.
Caught 14 in the yard this spring in dog proofs and introduced them to Jesus.

I just got 5 dp traps and have a couple of cage traps so plan to thin out some around me.
I hate to waste the coons so what predators in the south would scavenge a dead raccoon ( fox, coyote, vultures)?

 

[338Sh00ter]

Yep, 22 shorts from a revolver, no one will be the wiser

 

[millerkiller77]

Yep, 22 shorts from a revolver, no one will be the wiser

.22 shorts are 5x louder than the CCI "LR quiet" fragmenting rounds.

 

[Jbotto]

A good solid tap on the head cures most raccoon headaches permanently. Surprisingly doesn’t take as much as you’d think.

 

[Mallardsx2]

Fill half way with Cat food and place a red solo cup on top.

One crack with an ax handle across the eyes tames them down pretty good.

 

[F250]

Was it over- kill to nail one in the horsebarn yesterday with 12 ga. 3” #2 steel ???

 

[Jbotto]

Was it over- kill to nail one in the horsebarn yesterday with 12 ga. 3” #2 steel ???

Depends who’s horsebarn it was….

 

[F250]

Depends who’s horsebarn it was….

Wife’s horse barn. Three opossums last week, one coon so far this week. I’m her hero at the moment !!

 

[TrapperJ]

When it comes to foot traps I personally go with dog food any kind would work I do see they like old Roy dog food pretty good I also mix some honey in there and get good results. If you got a cage trap which is what I always use then dog food is good aswell as sardines but I imagine you got cats in the area so get some chicken feed and put in there it works wonders I've caught 2 coons at the same time with chicken feed. Next as most are saying a Hickory stick or a metal rod or whatnot will dispatch a coon but I recommend Going to Walmart and buying a air rifle needs to be 1200fps or more and some good heavy pellets since that's what I trap with and it's great and you can later use it to plink around the house or dispatch squrriels or whatnot. Just my recommendation good luck on them coons