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He got one of mama's laying hens yesterday in broad daylight.

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good job............

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A 22 long rifle in his left ear from my Ruger Single-Six did the job.


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Looks like judgement day found him...


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I had one kill 6 pullets last summer. I hate a dang coon.

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Caught this big one today.

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Ongoing process here. Caught dozens of them in that trap.


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shame their hides are next to worthless now a days. I wack about 40 a year here just to keep them down

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Originally Posted by blanket
shame their hides are next to worthless now a days. I wack about 40 a year here just to keep them down



That it is.

That's the reason we have so damned many here.

Back when a prime coon would bring $35 or so, they weren't nearly as plentiful.

Damned treehuggers.


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I trapped the first one today this year. What a nice fur but not worth 5 bucks. A little story here. I like rabbit hunt'n, and had problems keeping rabbits on a few acres in my back yard, full of brush, spruce and pine trees. So, in 2014 I started trapping those things in the spring. Season is closed but if I forget to lock the chicken coop , there will be a dead chicken or two come morning. I dont even bother planting my beloved sweet corn , strawberries or raspberries anymore . The coons even clean up on the cherries. So in 2004 I geave them the whole nine yards. I trapped 23 , the next yr 17 and in 2016 I got 23 , all in the spring. By fall of 2016 I had rabbits all over the place . I shot 7 rabbits in about 3 acres behind the house. I only trapped 3 coons in 2017 and last fall I barely saw a rabbit and didn't even shoot one last fall. Rabbit hunting was like the 1980's . They were all over. If we would trap them there would be rabbits and pheasants here and most likely why I have scouted a piece of public land about 5,000 acres for 51 miles this winter and never kicked up a single rabbit. I'm trapping the heck out of them this spring and Roundoak, if you dont have a coon cuff trap , for 20 bucks you might be surprised how well they work.


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last year2017 I shot and trapped 11 raccoons,1 woodchuck , 5 rabbits,many chipmucks, one wild cat by my bird feeder,its still winter here in northern Minnesota and I shot 2 icky opossums 2018 ,last year 2017 no opossum

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ihookem, I have several Duke traps and used them with success around the buildings, however quit their use when my wife began boarding horses and holding juvenile horse care and riding camps. We did not want any unnerving events for the guests.


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Coons kill chickens??


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Originally Posted by Reloder28
Coons kill chickens??

Eat their little heads right off!!


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Take him (and the trap) swimming.

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Take him (and the trap) swimming.

Yep. That's what I do.


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Loved the pic of the coon in a HAVAHART TRAP; used to to several a year with them. Figured that they were named Havahart cuz you could walk up to the trap and plant a 22lr behind the earear with no response from th SOBs.

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Nice work!!


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Buddy was losing chickens. He made some coon sody-pop. Killed 20 some a a couple weeks.
Stuff works, but I don't like poison.


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Originally Posted by Reloder28
Coons kill chickens??

Eat their little heads right off!!



Never knew that.


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