Moving a young raccoon

[Sigarms]

I'm getting everyone the last day...

 

[dodge man]

I get up close to raccoons all the time, you know to pick them up with a shovel to throw them in the end loader bucket.

 

[BackRoad]

Shouldn't have read this thread. Bad karma! Haven't seen a coon in 3 years.

Then Sunday night...biggest I've ever seen was on the deck...I went out the front door with my .22 Glock with mounted green dot and spot light.

That coon took off RUNNING and I couldn't keep up with it, much less draw bead.

Next time, think I'll go out the backdoor, sneak into ambush position, then have my wife open the deck door to get him running my way...

It might not fit into a bushel basket, it is H U G E !

 

[WinterDeere]

I skipped a few pages in the middle of the thread... what happened to the coon, Sig?

I tried relocating a groundhog once, and the bastard came back! Right back to the same damn hole, under my fireplace. Apparently that's common, if moved less than 3 miles.

Since I didn't know of a second place I could easily move him, without chance of getting caught, a .22 LR had to be the "final solution".

I still remember the first time I set a trap for a groundhog. At some point my wife said, "Cassie [miniature Pinscher] didn't come in when I called outside for her." Let's just say, I sure am glad it was a "have a heart" type trap.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

My grandmother cooked a coon for my dad and my grandfather. My dad said that by the time he had chewed on a bite for a while, it was as big as a lampshade. He was not a fan.

 

[Jstpssng]

I skipped a few pages in the middle of the thread... what happened to the coon, Sig?

I tried relocating a groundhog once, and the bastard came back! Right back to the same damn hole, under my fireplace. Apparently that's common, if moved less than 3 miles.

Since I didn't know of a second place I could easily move him, without chance of getting caught, a .22 LR had to be the "final solution".

I still remember the first time I set a trap for a groundhog. At some point my wife said, "Cassie [miniature Pinscher] didn't come in when I called outside for her." Let's just say, I sure am glad it was a "have a heart" type trap.

I set a #1 1/2 double longspring for a woodchuck next to sister's house; and caught the neighbor's cat instead. My father put a burlap bag over it's head, released the trap- and it was gone!!! He didn't get a chance to check it for injuries but the way it was moving it had to be OK.

 

[masseyrider]

I remember as a kid my father shot a huge Garbage Panda in the chicken shack. He was eating eggs.
Fortunately he hadn't killed any chickens.
He threw it on the brush pile and burned it the next day.
When he told the Native guy he worked with what had happened the guy was so disappointed.
He said they cooked it down for fat and his kids loved it cooked over an open fire.

 

[WinterDeere]

I remember as a kid my father shot a huge Garbage Panda in the chicken shack. He was eating eggs.
Fortunately he hadn't killed any chickens.
He threw it on the brush pile and burned it the next day.
When he told the Native guy he worked with what had happened the guy was so disappointed.
He said they cooked it down for fat and his kids loved it cooked over an open fire.

Plus... he burned up a perfectly good hat!

I throw all of our dead chickens, ground hogs, and other animals onto our burn pile, with the intent of burning them. But it's never actually come to that, they're always gone by the next day, before I've had a chance to build and light a fire. I've never seen who's carrying them off, but we have Turkey buzzards the size of Volkswagons, so they're my first suspect.

 

[masseyrider]

Plus... he burned up a perfectly good hat!

I throw all of our dead chickens, ground hogs, and other animals onto our burn pile, with the intent of burning them. But it's never actually come to that, they're always gone by the next day, before I've had a chance to build and light a fire. I've never seen who's carrying them off, but we have Turkey buzzards the size of Volkswagons, so they're my first suspect.

At the old farm I had a local chicken farmer bring 150-200 tons of manure several times a year.
Late one summer it was very hot, 90s everyday, and he started trucking.
The manure was full of dead chickens that had succumbed to the heat. I thought this is going to smell double strong.
Wrong.
The coyotes and other scavengers must have been walking around burping and farting they were so stuffed with chicken.
Well... unless the Colonel snuck by at night.
The chickens buried in the pile were totally decomposed by spring when I spread it out.

 

[gstrom99]

I set a conabear (sp?) type trap for a/some critters that insist on getting under the sliding door into my pole barn. I've gotten several - 'coons, possums, groundhogs and a couple feral cats. The cats were collateral damage. I need to remember to set the safety on it, when my house/barn cat goes out. I caught him once, looking through the opening at the trap, and shooed him away just in time. Living "out here" brings conflict management into play almost daily.