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MR. GADGET

MR. GADGET

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They will steal anything they get there paws on.
I'm going to shoot them, one of these nights, if I catch them...
 
All my corn and salt blocks at the farm where I hunt.
Got about 5 of them or more that you can hear running around when I'm heading out. Walked back in one night to put more corn out and had to chase 3 away, they went up a tree 20' and and know I can not shoot them, I head out and they go back to eating. Think I'm going to get a trap a get them that way, then look for a house to drop them of at........:rolleyes:
Think it would be funny someone opens a mail box and finds a coon......
 
MR. GADGET said:
All my corn and salt blocks at the farm where I hunt.
Got about 5 of them or more that you can hear running around when I'm heading out. Walked back in one night to put more corn out and had to chase 3 away, they went up a tree 20' and and know I can not shoot them, I head out and they go back to eating. Think I'm going to get a trap a get them that way, then look for a house to drop them of at........:rolleyes:
Think it would be funny someone opens a mail box and finds a coon......
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RACCOON AND OPOSSUM
OCT. 15 (at sunrise) – Feb. 29
Opossum; No bag limits
Raccoon Daily limit 3; Possession 6; Season 30
Exception: Raccoon Daily limit 1; Party 2; Possession 2; Season
20 in and west of Stokes, Forsyth, Davidson, Stanly and
Union counties.
Exceptions: These portions of the following counties are closed
to raccoon and opossum hunting:
Haywood: Harmon Den and Sherwood Bear Sanctuaries
 
Yes ,yes but you better have a coon dog with you or you are spot lighting deer and now that deer is out it is hunting deer out of season and so on, Trust me I had the game warden out the other day asking about it. You need to hunt in daylight, when you never see them or night with a dog or you get ticket. He said it would be best if I traped them. Owner does not want dogs used for hunting other then labs as bird dogs.
Because I have several hundred acres for free, to hunt, I do what they say......
 
Of course your lab could be a coon dog....
It would be interesting trying to get the DNR official to prove otherwise....
 
I've yet to see a Lab dumb enough to climb a tree after anything, let alone one dumb enough to chase a Coon.

they make real nasty sounds when you electricute them ( the racoons ) dad and I got 2 when I was in highschool, trapped them and instead of making them someone elses problem, thats how we handled it. Smells kinda funny too.
 
Use 4 and 6 shot in a shotgun. Know judge will convict you of using that to spotlight deer.
 
They have been getting in to my trash alot around the house and stealing gallon jugs of catfood. I set up a game camera at one of my corn piles earlier this year and got a pic of 5 coons in the corn with a 10 pointer. 95% of the pics were coons. The only thing Ive been able to do with them is trap them.
 
2KFLEXJ said:
Do you have the option of using a steel box trap?
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Better yet, store your bait & salt in a steel container... like a steel open top drum w/ a lid! (should keep out the rats too! :lol: )

Check that... just realized they're eating the stuff your setting out, not your storage stash.

What about one of your "little" handguns with shot shells? A .357 + pellets will wear them out!
 
I think that a trap is in the works.....

Any gun at night without a dog and you are going to get a ticket.
You only see them at night and coon hunting with a dog is the only thing that you can do at night.
If I see one in the day it's dead, other then that looks like a trap. If I had power at the farm it would be fun like you do stuff around the house if needed. Take an old shop cord and strip sections of it then staple it to paint sticks and lay it in the yard for things to run across. Never thought one of those little grey things could fly, but they can, bout 15 feet......
 
i'm not a hunter, and i've always wondered this....why must you have a coon dog? what does it do. I know duck hunting, the dog gets the duck so you don't have to....dog get the coon too?
 
Yet to have any coon problem, I have a fat possum that comes in the garage through the cat door and eats the cat's food.

Picked him up by the tail and showed him the door one night.
He still comes back, so I named him George Jones, just to have a name to yell at him.
 
A coon dog is alot like a bird dog.... It will not get too far from you. When you are hunting with a coon dog it isn't anything like hunting with deer dogs. Go to www.ukcdogs.com and make a "log-in name" for the forum (message board). Ask someone to come trap them for you. I ask that you don't kill them for no reason. There are coon hunters out there that will gladly trap them to train puppies with. Raccoons are scarce enough we don't need to kill'em for no reason. If I was closer, I would come trap them for you. They are mean as hell and they are more than likely carring Rabies in a dormit state. Just be careful if you go to messing with them.
 
xjsaretheway said:
i'm not a hunter, and i've always wondered this....why must you have a coon dog? what does it do. I know duck hunting, the dog gets the duck so you don't have to....dog get the coon too?
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Coon dogs are born with the instinct to "tree" game. You basically turn the dog out and wait. He/she knows what to do. When they are puppies, you have to work with them and encourage them to tree coon and coon only. Some dogs will mess up from time to time and tree possums or squirrels......... That's when you beat his ass them let him know he is wrong. But to make a long story short. You turn them out he looks for the scent of a raccoon, and trails him to a tree. The coon climbs the tree and the dog stands at the bottom and barks until you get there. You take your light and shine the tree until you see the coon........ Shot him and leave. I hardly shoot any because every coon that you shoot is a coon that you will never tree again. Most coon hunters like to tree the coons and not shoot them. They hunting is mostly for the hunter to work his dog. Kinda like 4x4's messing up public areas and the areas getting closed. Every place that closes is one less place to ride.

So, again...... I ask. Please don't kill the Racoons for no reason. Ask someone to trap them for you. Agri-supply sells traps. Use peanut butter, grape jelly, or honey buns to trap them.
 
mmmm....honey buns

Edit: situation sucks Jon, sorry no tech.
 
I don't kill just to kill.
Thats the main reason I was waiting was they get better color in the cold, Jan and Feb... There are many reasons I want to get them but after I get them I will keep the fur, cant bring myself to eat them, I know there are some people that do but not me. If you know about traping and coons, NC will not let you trap and transport live game, you would need a lot of permits or have wildlife do it and I dont think they would want someone traping and then giving them to dogs to play with if they have rabies as you say.
The thing about this property is that I'm the only one to be on it and if any traping is to be done then I need to do it. If someone had several traps then that would be cool we could get them in a few nights but other then that I'm going to get one trap 60$ to 80$ and get one to two coons a weekend because of the drive from the house. I need to check the traps each day and would set one Friday and Sat.
 
Sir, no one said you were killing to be killing. Ok..... lemme clarify the whole trapping and giving to dogs comment. Coonhunters trap them SHOW them to puppies to get them interested. Turn the Raccoon out in a place where they can live and survive and then you let the puppy try to follow the scent. I have been coon hunting and training dogs for many years. A puppy is not capable of defending him/herself against a fully grown or even a kitten coon. Coons are nothing to play around with. If someone pays big money for a pup, then why in the world would they let the coon harm the puppy? Trapping and transporting happens all of the time. Trap your coons drive out of your hunting area and turn them loose some where else, or register at UKCdogs.com and find someone in the area to take them. You trap, and transport to the end of your hunting property and trade the animal off to someone that will see to it having somewhere to live.

I am just trying to help you out. I am not trying to be a know it all of animal activist by any means. I have just as strong a passion of Coonhunting as I do about offroading. Maybe, you can understand it if I put into those terms.

If you trap the Raccoons and transport them....... do it at night and turn them out. Unless your driving like an idiot, or drunk, or your vehicle is falling apart...... I highly doubt anyone is going to stop you to see if your transporting raccoons. Hell, any sheriff or town cop that pulls you will not even know what you have anyway. Put the cage in the back of your truck and throw an old burlap sack or blanket over it to cover it. I promise the cop will not say...... "Hey, what's under the bur-lap sack? LOL.............. Lemme know if you really need help with this. I am just trying to help you out.
 

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Just put the corn or other bait in a steel container take a extentin cord and cut off one end and attach one wire to the steel and plug in the other end when the coons touch the steel they will ground it out and it will shock the hell out of them better yet try to get this on tape they will not come back used this on my mother in laws trash can and it worked
 
better solution yet....go to gander mountain and get the semiauto Crosman Nightstalker .177 pellet rifle with the "destroyer" pellets.....and get a laser while ur at it....i bought me one for xmas and its fun as hell.....12 pellets off as fast as you can fire em....i paid like 130 for it....but its a blast....just sit out there wait for the noise's hit the button for the light and light em up :lol:
 
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