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While I expect more'n a few raccoons end up compacted every year, this one in DC appears to have made a narrow escape. Great photo tho....  ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Sharpshin/raccoon-png-1487375943_zpsncq6nw7l.png)
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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I have no love for them varmints. I had one challenge me yesterday morning. Puffed up like a bodybuilder when I opened the door on the way to work.
I caught him in a trap last night, but somehow he tipped it over and got out.
Got that situation fixed, if he wants those marshmallows tonight, he's buzzard bait.
No mercy shown to them. None. .22 Short HP to the head, adjusts their attitudes accordingly.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
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I hear ya.....
I use a 17M2........lights out.........
means more pheasants in my fields........
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I have no love for them varmints. I had one challenge me yesterday morning. Puffed up like a bodybuilder when I opened the door on the way to work.
I caught him in a trap last night, but somehow he tipped it over and got out.
Got that situation fixed, if he wants those marshmallows tonight, he's buzzard bait.
No mercy shown to them. None. .22 Short HP to the head, adjusts their attitudes accordingly. Cinder block on top, after you set the trap will put an end to that. 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Campfire Kahuna
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Killing varmints just because they are that doesn't work for me perosnally.
Doesn't mean I don't shoot them though....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I'd much rather have songbirds...meadowlarks...pheasants & rabbits
than skunks...coons......feral cats.....ground squirrels...
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Killing varmints just because they are that doesn't work for me perosnally.
Doesn't mean I don't shoot them though.... agree. Killing any animal, just for the sake of killing, does not interest me.
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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You have never hunted prairie dogs?
and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) d.v. Musings on TDS
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I have no love for them varmints. I had one challenge me yesterday morning. Puffed up like a bodybuilder when I opened the door on the way to work.
I caught him in a trap last night, but somehow he tipped it over and got out.
Got that situation fixed, if he wants those marshmallows tonight, he's buzzard bait.
No mercy shown to them. None. .22 Short HP to the head, adjusts their attitudes accordingly. If you place the muzzle of a Savage Stiker 10 inch in HMR through the wires of the cage, the raccoon will actually place the muzzle in his mouth.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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You have never hunted prairie dogs? That is for the sake of pink mist--never gets old
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Indeed! 
and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) d.v. Musings on TDS
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I like trapping coons, watermelon works as bait.
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You have never hunted prairie dogs? do not hunt them....... just shoot them.....no hunting required.......
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sorta growing up in No VA, the District was full of them... started in the early 50s and by 1970 it was pretty much overrun with them... white gals, especially blondes seem to attract them a lot...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
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Early to mid 1970's I drove garbage trucks. Raccoons are notorious dumpster divers. When the truck backed up to the dumpster they would often "sit tight" in the dumpster, thinking they were safe if they stayed hidden. By the time the dumpster is leaving the ground it's usually (but not always) too late for them to escape and they wind up going for a ride. In a compactor type truck it's usually fatal for them. In a large non-compactor scenario, like a large roll-off box unit, they will often ride all the way to wherever it gets dumped. The container will tip up; contents will all come falling out; next thing you see is a raccoon crawling up out of the contents, looking around with a "where am I" look on its face. Have seen that many times.
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Nearly every trash truck down here has one or more riding on the back... 
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Nearly every trash truck down here has one or more riding on the back... Are they 'ring-tailed' or just regular 'coons'?
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sorta growing up in No VA, the District was full of them... started in the early 50s and by 1970 it was pretty much overrun with them... white gals, especially blondes seem to attract them a lot... >>>>>>>>LMFAO<<<<<<<<<<<
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I have no love for them varmints. I had one challenge me yesterday morning. Puffed up like a bodybuilder when I opened the door on the way to work.
I caught him in a trap last night, but somehow he tipped it over and got out.
Got that situation fixed, if he wants those marshmallows tonight, he's buzzard bait.
No mercy shown to them. None. .22 Short HP to the head, adjusts their attitudes accordingly. They don't tip over a conibear 220. Got one last night.
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