First thermal kill!

[Rookie]

My daughter said this was after half of them ran away.

 

[bwframe]

[video=youtube;XgNBgyziNrA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA[/video]

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Waiting for Rocky even now....

 

[spencer rifle]

[video=youtube;XgNBgyziNrA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA[/video]

Apparently this guy has never heard of Baylisascaris procyonis. Raccoons carry it. Worms burrow in your brain.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Waiting for Rocky even now....

I hear he's somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota.

 

[boosteds13cc]

Hell ya. Keep up the good work. I trap the ones I have. Dont want them to get into my duck coop n kill em

 

[Leadeye]

I just keep the trap going, keeps the number of raccoons down and you can release stuff that you don't need to shoot.

 

[phylodog]

I’m gonna start stacking these little *******s like cordwood. Got a call this morning (while on vacation) that the same rooster’s coop wasn’t closed up last night and another coon killed him while he was defending his hens. Must have worn the coon out because the hens appear untouched.

He was a very good rooster and I’m not quick to forgive. It’s game on you little bastards.

 

[Aszerigan]

It’s game on you little bastards.

Sorry about your rooster, man.

I shoot them nearly every other day too, keeps them out of our coops. Good luck stacking them up.

 

[Leadeye]

Back when I was a young man you could flatten the local raccoon population in short order with what we used to call "coon cola", not legal these days and the key ingredient isn't for sale here.

 

[phylodog]

I’ve heard fly bait with some cola works extremely well but I have too many other critters around to take that approach.

 

[spencer rifle]

I’m gonna start stacking these little *******s like cordwood. Got a call this morning (while on vacation) that the same rooster’s coop wasn’t closed up last night and another coon killed him while he was defending his hens. Must have worn the coon out because the hens appear untouched.

He was a very good rooster and I’m not quick to forgive. It’s game on you little bastards.

Someone I know had a good rooster like that. Had. They came out one morning to find the rooster dean in the chicken run, accompanied by two dead raccoons.
Didn't go down without a fight.

 

[Leadeye]

I’ve heard fly bait with some cola works extremely well but I have too many other critters around to take that approach.

We set it inside of a pen to keep farm animals out, but raccoons could still climb in. People told us that it was a really long cruel death for the raccoons, part of the reason it was banned, but they were completely wrong. It's as lethal and quick as a two step snake.

 

[phylodog]

We set it inside of a pen to keep farm animals out, but raccoons could still climb in. People told us that it was a really long cruel death for the raccoons, part of the reason it was banned, but they were completely wrong. It's as lethal and quick as a two step snake.

That’s what I’ve been told also.

 

[KJQ6945]

I’m gonna start stacking these little *******s like cordwood. Got a call this morning (while on vacation) that the same rooster’s coop wasn’t closed up last night and another coon killed him while he was defending his hens. Must have worn the coon out because the hens appear untouched.

He was a very good rooster and I’m not quick to forgive. It’s game on you little bastards.

As far as stacking them up goes, Rookie turned me on to the cheap driveway alarm from harbor freight. I would set out some bait trying to get a coyote in the backyard. Set the thermal up in a different bedroom, and turn on the monitor. Never had a yote come in but ended up with a pile of coons and opossums. The ever growing bait pile.

 

[Bigtanker]

I squashed three babies in the road this week. Hit them with all nine axles (17 tires). On the way back it was nothing more that a puddle.

 

[AtTheMurph]

You can't kill them fast enough.. a buddy from Purdue did his thesis on coons. He did a 100% removal from an isolated wood lot and measured how fast it repopulated. In no time flat it's population was back to original numbers.

Same as coyotes. Coyotes actually increase their litter size as coyote populations around them drop. coyotes seem to like a certain number of coyotes per square mile and there ain't nothing we can do to stop it.

 

[phylodog]

Coyotes seem to like a certain number of coyotes per square mile and there ain't nothing we can do to stop it.

Oh no, I think you've brought to light the one and only left wing, liberal viewpoint I have. While your statement very well may be true (and most likely is), my response is "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING". I'm disappointed in myself.

 

[Leadeye]

You can wipe out raccoons, it's not pretty, or sporting, or even legal these days but you can. It's probably the same for any species.

 

[patience0830]

You can wipe out raccoons, it's not pretty, or sporting, or even legal these days but you can. It's probably the same for any species.

been doing my part. Prolly a lot more turkey poults this spring, but I'm still missing a suet feeder.