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Posted: 9/16/2024 5:38:07 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Raccoons acting "weird" is honestly a good reason TO shoot it. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 5:38:57 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 5 gallon bucket works very well when releasing incidental catches… Blankets are ok, but buckets work the best. I have released lots of incidental catches that way. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Funny but letting him go means getting him out of that snare. You going to risk getting bit to save a trash panda? 5 gallon bucket works very well when releasing incidental catches… Blankets are ok, but buckets work the best. I have released lots of incidental catches that way. I’ve done the 5-gallon with a crow and possum in leg traps. Not sure I’d have the balls to do it with an angry raccoon. 
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Posted: 9/16/2024 5:41:21 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have caught dozens of coon in that trap and I have never had a mangled paw. It is probably the nicest trap out there for not mangling paws. Lots of surface area to hold the arm, but not enough to cause mangling. Leg hold traps are a different matter… Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Those traps mangle their paws. He'd be maimed for life. I have caught dozens of coon in that trap and I have never had a mangled paw. It is probably the nicest trap out there for not mangling paws. Lots of surface area to hold the arm, but not enough to cause mangling. Leg hold traps are a different matter… My impression is the opposite but I don’t have the experience you do. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 5:42:54 AM EST
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That raccoon must have seen a lot of death. How does it get to that point? Maybe saw something at a young age that never left it's little brain.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 5:44:01 AM EST
[#5]
I love raccoons
Would never kill one |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:10:13 AM EST
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They are eerily smart. Smarter than dogs.  Attached FileThree enjoyed cherries from my wild tree this spring. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:12:41 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s true. I’m the toddler,I was there. We shot him right in his furry fucking face huh dad! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you must know, I was out trapping and shooting raccoons with my other toddler. It’s true. I’m the toddler,I was there. We shot him right in his furry fucking face huh dad! 
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:30:45 AM EST
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I didn't think of them as being a pest, in that case, I'd have popped him too, admittedly I don't hunt, I'd like to though.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:35:37 AM EST
[#9]
I fucking hate and love raccoons at the same time.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:35:42 AM EST
[#10]
I put cages on my feeders to keep the coons out. I’ve had the fuckers empty a feeder full of corn overnight several times.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:42:46 AM EST
[#11]
I'd get a can or spray paint to give it a little mark then let it go. If it is caught again, bye.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:43:34 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That is gay and you should feel gay. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Zero reason to kill that. I would have fed it first, then let it go. Dad of this kid, if he even has one, is a fuckstain. That is gay and you should feel gay.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:44:50 AM EST
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When we lived in west TX one of our neighbors was a very old lady. She told us about having problems with the raccoons getting in her chicken coop at night. One night she heard the chickens raising cain and grabbed her shotgun and lantern and went out to the coop. She said she opened the door and there was a raccoon inside. She raised the lantern up higher and braced the shotgun with one hand/arm to take the shot and the raccoon turned to look at her and then put it's hands over it's eyes. She said she couldn't pull the trigger and was waiting for it to drop it's hands. She got tired, lowered the shot gun and the raccoon lowered it's hands. She raised the shotgun up again and the raccoon covered it's eyes with it's hands again.
She said she shut the door to the coop and went next door to get her neighbor to come over and kill it. He opened the door, put the flashlight on the raccoon and raised up his gun and the raccoon once again covered it's eyes. She said he turned around to her and said he'd never seen anything like that before. The raccoon lowered it's hands as he turned away but raised them again as he turned back towards it and raised the gun up. He killed the raccoon anyway and she carried it out to the property line and tossed it into the brush. It would be tough to kill something that seemed smart enough to know it was about to meet it's end. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:45:01 AM EST
[#14]
maybe he fainted
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:52:53 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Zero reason to kill that. I would have fed it first, then let it go. Dad of this kid, if he even has one, is a fuckstain. First part, agreed. Second part.... Why? |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:55:09 AM EST
[#16]
It’s Franklin! Seriously i wouldn’t fuck with him because i don’t want the Kid and the BUFF mad at me.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:04:13 AM EST
[#17]
nice acting
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:23:53 AM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @Clarinath Any luck drawing the big guy in? I went on Saturday and a small guy came in, ate for 40 minutes, then left. Nothing big on the cameras yet. We’ve had 4 separate sows come in, a yearling and a 2 1/2 year old. @c-4 Sure, comes in every night, well after dark. Mrs_Clarinath is the one with the tag and she has been a trooper. 14 hours a day sitting at a shooting bench, waiting for him to come in…  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:26:22 AM EST
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve done the 5-gallon with a crow and possum in leg traps. Not sure I’d have the balls to do it with an angry raccoon. Try it with an Otter!!!! Those bastards are slippery. Fox get kinda bitey too, but you know how far they can stretch, so you just gotta time it right. One of the old guys I get help from has two poles with a net between them, making a basket about 2 feet square. He opens the poles, puts the net in the air over the animal, then steps on the poles to trap it. Works pretty well. Another guy uses a long handled fishing net. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:28:57 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I love raccoons Would never kill one I love them too, I have raised many orphans up and released them around my place. But life in the country is not as happy and easy as citiots like to believe. Sometimes, certain animals become pests, and when they do, they have to be dealt with. Sometimes, animals, domestic and wild, get sick and you have to put them down. Nothing hurts more than shooting a 5 day old Holstein calf with a broken leg, that you pulled from its mama and bottle fed, but that’s life, and sometimes it sucks… |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:32:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ITT, we learn who would save a drowning dog over saving my drowning toddler. Nope, I'd save a toddler over a dog, but I'd save a dog over an adult liberal or any adult not yelling for help in English. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:49:25 AM EST
[#22]
It would be a very different video if the kid took the safety off before getting a sight picture.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:53:34 AM EST
[#23]
At first I thought, I'd let him go, that was super smart. Then I thought about it. I would euthanize that dirt ball with a vengeance. Racoons are destructive enough and I don't think humans can let ones that smart live. They'll take over the world.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:57:59 AM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:17:19 AM EST
[#25]
still no reason to kill it champ...you wouldn't want to do that in front of me
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:21:17 AM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: still no reason to kill it champ...you wouldn't want to do that in front of me  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:24:35 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ask me how I know you've never owned a deer feeder. Or chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits. Coons and coyotes receive no quarter. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:26:48 AM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Try it with an Otter!!!! Those bastards are slippery. Fox get kinda bitey too, but you know how far they can stretch, so you just gotta time it right. One of the old guys I get help from has two poles with a net between them, making a basket about 2 feet square. He opens the poles, puts the net in the air over the animal, then steps on the poles to trap it. Works pretty well. Another guy uses a long handled fishing net. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I’ve done the 5-gallon with a crow and possum in leg traps. Not sure I’d have the balls to do it with an angry raccoon. Try it with an Otter!!!! Those bastards are slippery. Fox get kinda bitey too, but you know how far they can stretch, so you just gotta time it right. One of the old guys I get help from has two poles with a net between them, making a basket about 2 feet square. He opens the poles, puts the net in the air over the animal, then steps on the poles to trap it. Works pretty well. Another guy uses a long handled fishing net. OMG, an otter!  You may have seen the video in another thread here where an otter is dragging a raccoon into a hole in some drainage system. Scary as hell! |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:28:59 AM EST
[#29]
Is that an air pistol?
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:30:35 AM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Raccoons acting "weird" is honestly a good reason TO shoot it. They have the potential to rush you at close quarters and try and rip an eye out. Stay frosty. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:32:22 AM EST
[#31]
I'd toss him an antique flintlock pistol.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:33:00 AM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They really are smart and have opposable thumbs too. Give them a few million more years of evolution(or a few hundred with an intentional uplift program) and we could end up with some interesting results New gain of function project for Faucci |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:33:33 AM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Or chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits. Coons and coyotes receive no quarter. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ask me how I know you've never owned a deer feeder. Or chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits. Coons and coyotes receive no quarter. Or a house in the country. They cost me a new roof on my house and killed a bunch of my chickens in the same week. I've been on a raccoon genocide mission for months. I walk the property with NVGs and a rifle two nights a week and kill every raccoon and possum I see. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:35:46 AM EST
[#34]
Curious, how would you let him go? Getting that snare off his arm isn't going to go well
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:36:23 AM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Zero reason to kill that. I would have fed it first, then let it go. Dad of this kid, if he even has one, is a fuckstain. You sound like my dumb ass brother, he fed one by hand and later it ripped through his screen door and wrecked the kitchen looking for more food. They all get one to the dome. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:36:32 AM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They really are smart and have opposable thumbs too. Give them a few million more years of evolution(or a few hundred with an intentional uplift program) and we could end up with some interesting results That's only like 12% of a plan. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:36:49 AM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: still no reason to kill it champ...you wouldn't want to do that in front of me
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:39:52 AM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Didn't realize we had so many elderly lesbians on this site... A bunch posting in this thread.  |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:40:55 AM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: still no reason to kill it champ...you wouldn't want to do that in front of me lol |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:40:57 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ITT We discover city people Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Zero reason to kill that. I would have fed it first, then let it go. Dad of this kid, if he even has one, is a fuckstain. ITT We discover city people But Disney told him all aminals are cuddly wuddly creatures!!! City folks are so fucking lame. I hate it when they enter my world to play "homesteader" or "hobby farmer". |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:42:17 AM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Raccoons acting "weird" is honestly a good reason TO shoot it. Yup. We'd get them walking up to you in the daytime then turn around in a bunch of circles and other weird shit. BOOM! |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:47:56 AM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn sure looks like his left leg is in some sorta snare or something. I'm letting this feller go and IDGAF what any of the GD hardos have to say about it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Is it trapped? Damn sure looks like his left leg is in some sorta snare or something. I'm letting this feller go and IDGAF what any of the GD hardos have to say about it. Dog proof trap. Put a few mini marshmallows around it and one inside of it. Marshmallows are racoon crack. The amount of damage coons do to our corn is why they are a 'shoot on sight' critter. They'll climb up a cornstalk, ride it to the ground, take a bite or two out of the corn, and move on to the next to do it all over again. Fuck em. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:48:18 AM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: still no reason to kill it champ...you wouldn't want to do that in front of me I haven't felt so frightened in quite a long time. It's exhilarating. Please do it again! |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:51:19 AM EST
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It’s stories like these I would like an update on. He deserves a pass, and nomination for an academy award. I’ve lost several chickens to coons, but this one would get a pass.
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Posted: 9/16/2024 8:51:35 AM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup. We'd get them walking up to you in the daytime then turn around in a bunch of circles and other weird shit. BOOM! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Raccoons acting "weird" is honestly a good reason TO shoot it. Yup. We'd get them walking up to you in the daytime then turn around in a bunch of circles and other weird shit. BOOM! I had a turkey in my yard do that years ago. I'd never seen anything like it except in a sick coon. It was very strange and I promptly put it down... from about 10' away because it wasn't scared of me in the slightest. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 9:04:05 AM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: still no reason to kill it champ...you wouldn't want to do that in front of me   I shot raccoons when I lived in the fucken suburbs. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 9:06:39 AM EST
[#47]
I like raccoon
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Posted: 9/16/2024 9:07:49 AM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @c-4 Sure, comes in every night, well after dark. Mrs_Clarinath is the one with the tag and she has been a trooper. 14 hours a day sitting at a shooting bench, waiting for him to come in… https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/254555/IMG_1658_png-3323830.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: @Clarinath Any luck drawing the big guy in? I went on Saturday and a small guy came in, ate for 40 minutes, then left. Nothing big on the cameras yet. We’ve had 4 separate sows come in, a yearling and a 2 1/2 year old. @c-4 Sure, comes in every night, well after dark. Mrs_Clarinath is the one with the tag and she has been a trooper. 14 hours a day sitting at a shooting bench, waiting for him to come in… https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/254555/IMG_1658_png-3323830.JPG @Clarinath That’s awesome! I hope it comes in during “business hours”. The waiting is soul-crushing at times. But he only has to show up once!  |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 9:10:23 AM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Curious, how would you let him go? Getting that snare off his arm isn't going to go well Put a bucket over him with the arm sticking out. Release the trap from his hand. Hope he doesn’t come after you when he gets out of the bucket. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 9:13:53 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ITT We discover city people |
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