Ammo for the Racoon

[p8riot]

We've got coyotes pissing all over Iowa but the ratcoons are still here.

Guess they're more jaded than Virginia raccoons.

 

[catadjuster]

If you plan on releasing the coon, then go ahead and get a hav-a-heart trap. If you plan to kill the coon anyway, don't bother with any of the box traps. They are often too picky to keep them running when you have an animal as strong as a coon in it. Get some of these:
Amazon.com : Duke 0510 Duke Coon Trap, Pack of 2 : Clothing
I set them out with some canned cat food in them with a marshmallow tucked into the top of it. It cannot catch a dog or a cat, but can catch a coon or possum. I attach it to a fire log with a stout deck screw (3.5"). If you have a family of coons, you will catch one a night until they are all gone. Ask me how I know that.

Then, when you catch one, your backstop is the ground.

 

[bearfoot]

oh yea! rabid coon on corner house out of the coldersac last week. he sat in yard while women cut her grass, she called the police, coon walked back into the woods before they got to the house, they told her to shoot it when it came back to her yard, and then they'll picked it up. they picked it up a few hours later.

 

[MRB1]

Most effective round I ever used on raccoon was the Winchester Black Talon load in 45ACP. Fired through an open window inside the house and the bullet hit him like a ton of bricks. Dead right there. It was a little loud in the house but my hearing was already wrecked. All the kids were out of the room.

I now use .177 spring loaded pellets when the neighbors are home and MiniMag JHPs when they're away.

Yes I know it's a zombie thread but people are reading it. Killing raccoons is important business since they live in the towns now.

I went the 45ACP route one time on a coon in my hen house. I shot - he ducked - bullet went through the back wall of my hen house and into the rear tire sidewall of my new tractor. Use pellets or shorts - cheaper that way.

 

[ExcitableBoy]

Ammo for the raccoon... ???

Please, God, don't give 'em any! They'll start shooting back.