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We have strong raccoons here. One literally pried open the back of the have a heart trap and squeezed out. Now he's educated and won't go near it. I have the same trap, I wired the back door closed, permanently, I have caught hundreds of coons with it , they are great traps and well worth the money, mine also has a ten inch cement block setting on top of it so they can not roll it over, the only damage to it is the wire that I have shot off killing the damn things, they catch cats as well as skunks so placement is important, marshmallows seem to limit the skunk catches.
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A racoon caught trying to walk through a 220 conibear is dead in a minute or so,. I have seen box traps get round (shaped) after having a coon in it for a length of time.
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We have caught 10 coon out of the yard so far with a live trap and the best bait so far has been a soup can with nothing in it. No kidding. They can't stand not knowing what it is. Next is SMALL marshmallows
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I use a 220 Conibear in a 5 gallon bucket set with dry dog food as bait. (I tried Live traps and the coons destroyed 2 different makes!) Works like a champ. Dead coon almost every morning in the fall. It's nothing for me to get a couple 35-40 pounders every year. This is next to my house in the far suburbs of Chicago!
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I have a squirrel problem this year and have been trapping them in a cheap Harbor Freight live trap. I relocated 31 (so far) of them since I started trapping them in early May. I use a saltine cracker with a good dollop of peanut butter. I usually spring the trap at sundown, but sometimes I forget. When I do forget and leave them set overnight I catch raccoons. I've caught 5 or so this year and the cheap HF trap holds them. Peanut butter gets them every time for me, even though I don't want them.
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Caught 20 coons, 14 skunks and a feral cat this month with DP cuff traps. I just use fish food (pellets) because that’s what I have on hand. I think we’ve got them thinned out, haven’t caught any for a couple of days now.
These DP traps are the schizzle compared to the have a hearts or ordinary leg holds. This is the first time I’ve ever been able to get on top of the coon population around the farm.
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Don’t buy a haveaheart trap. I would suggest if wanting a live animal trap… Wickenkamp. Made in Martinsburg, IA and you will not be disappointed. The coons will not tear them up. 2-3 adult men can stand on the trap and move it around and it won’t go off…lightly touch pan and boom the door is down. Head shots of n the trap are easy. The guy who makes them essentially started the live trap theme with his dad 50 years ago. Leon Wickenkamp. Best trap you ever should have bought.
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Liver sausage and a swift, humane end.
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Fruit cups to avoid feral and house cats.
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I've found them especially fond of M&M's, but I think near anything edible should work.
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Hang a plastic spoon or tin foil from the top of the trap. (Reusable) Then a few squirts of fish oil in and around the trap.
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Just got through setting my dog-proof traps. I used dry cat food this time. Have used marshmellows, added jelly to them. used canned cat food, and sardines. I've also put a few drops of vanilla on the bait, and that works good too.
Most anything will catch a coon, but will also catch a possum and the occasional skunk. Since they all destroy turkey nests, and will eat my chickens, I'm just glad to get rid of them.
I had my son pull the traps last week when I was too sick to run them, and now that I'm over that crap, I'm ready to go back to catching something. Since Thanksgiving, I've caught about 6 or 7 coons, and a few possums.
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I tried sardines and peanut butter, but found they simply cannot resist dog food kibbles. Make a trail leading up to the trap and hang a handful in a window screen bag just behind the treadle. Traps baited this way always had a coon inside in the morning.
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Hang a plastic spoon or tin foil from the top of the trap. (Reusable) Then a few squirts of fish oil in and around the trap. The very first coon I caught was in a small leg hold trap that had the pan wrapped in tinfoil and set under a bridge in shallow water. I was too young to have a gun so I tried to kill the coon by dropping a rock on it from the bridge above. I had wired the trap to a log and it gave the coon quite a range of motion, it scared me as it would lunge at me if I got too close. After several failed attempts with rocks, I decided to walk to my cousins about a mile away and borrow a gun to finish the job. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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for a box trap I used lucky charms worked great they get greedy eating all that sugar and forget about where they are placing their feet spread a little on the outside to tease them and a handful inside
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