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Nowadays, when I have a live trapped 'coon I need to dispose of (I have found no animal "rescue" groups that will answer their phone when I need them to take one off my hands, and have been told by someone in the Parks & Wildlife Dept that it is illegal to simply drive them down the road and release them), I drive my riding mower up close to the trap, rev the engine up all the way, and pop the critter with a .22 short. Neighbors only hear the mower, no BATF fee or waiting period required.

Good idea!

I like it, but what happens when there is snow on the ground?

Snowblower.

An empty 2 liter soda bottle works fine too. A little debbil told me dat

sounds like a practical use for the assegai I brought back from RSA!


I have always just taken live trapped animals and set the trap in water....return in ten minutes and pour out wet dead victim

Ya....I wanna see you try that one where you live now

Sorry to say that gunfire in town is often a life changing event. Most communities allow firing a pellet gun on your own property as long as it damages no one else's property.

As to snow on the Texas coast - no worries there, that'll be a cold day in hell.

PS I'm sure glad the south invented words like 'I'm, that'll , y'all , you'll, they'll, we'll, and woozum.

Yeah, ever since Doc became a transplant Tejano, he thinks a snowblower is a queer eskimo

CCI CB Longs. Thank me later.

Then wrap in garbage bag, put in chest freezer until garbage collection day.

Ain't much on purposely drowning anything, seems like way to violent of a death to me.

Yeah. That's why I shoot stuff in the lungs. It's violent free.



Travis

Just because I'd rather be shot behind the ear than drown, doesn't mean I won't drown a damn squirrel.

Or something like a Marauder .25 cal air rifle. It has a built in shrouded barrel suppressor system.

Come watch my wife when she finds a snake. Violent does not begin to describe...

I don't think Jeff would make a real good trapper...


Travis

It's a proven fact that most red squirrels cannot out-swim a live trap when submerged. But I keep trying to find super squirrel.

'have been told by someone in the Parks & Wildlife Dept that it is illegal to simply drive them down the road and release them"

Whoever "someone" talked to at the Texas Parks and Wildlife should have been told that it's also illegal in Texas to trap raccoons unless you have a trapper's license.

A real trapper uses a jab stick in the lungs with acetone in the syringe. Its fast quiet and humane.

I was referencing drowning sets.



Travis

I use CCI CB Longs myself. Like a loud pellet gun. Can always crank up a lawn mower, snow blower, or leaf blower. Shoot them right behind the head. Quick and quiet. Haven't thought about bagging and freezing until garbage day.

CB caps here.

Put the barrel in the cage and the 'coon usually bites at it. If you're quick on the trigger it's over in an instant and the coons head works as a muffler.

Saves mower/blower gas....

Same here. 22cb long or pellet.

best silencer is to move out of the dam city so you can shoot when you like

They ain't no match for a 200gr cast flat-nose bullet from a .44 Special, either. Proved that again over the weekend.

Pellet or even high powered BB to the lungs is very effective and can avoid the complication of using a 22.

We killed a truck load of grinners, skunks, feral cats and the occasional raccoon with our pump Crosman air rifles when we were kids. Don't know why that wouldn't still work, especially on animals in a trap. Give 'em the Lincoln shot and it's lights out.

My .264 turns 'em into bird pickings.

I killed 2 possums and a coon with my pellet gun the week before, but with mine you often have to shoot them several times. Wanted to just get this over with, and my suppressed .44 mag is not THAT quiet. That the small city I live on the edge of doesn't like me to shoot pests with a firearm was the point in using the mower to mask the sound of the shot, of course.

Not going to comment on the trapping license comment, but as to snow on the Texas coast, a few years ago we got 10 inches at Christmas time here in Freeport - had snow on the beach for a day or so. (I did like the Snowblower joke, though).

I also don't care to drown animals. A buddy of mine used to live trap cats and drop them in the trap off his dock. He didn't drown them, though, just sort of water boarded them several times. He said when he finally let them out, they NEVER came back to his place again!

Oh, you better be fast with that acetone filled syringe in Texas in August! Acetone don't stay liquid very long in this heat!

Just for the fun of it and for educational purposes...a South Australian company used to provide an item that would be of use here, it consisted of a blued steel fitting with a female 1/2" SAE on one side and a female coke bottle thread on the other.

It cost a couple of dollars.

That device would be necessary to use the plastic soft drink bottle as a suppressor. I tried as a teenager to tape them on the end of a .22 barrel, but the muzzle blast "shoots" them off before the bottle gets punctured.

Note: Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. Regs. say a property owner or their agent can trap "nuisance" fur bearing animals WITHOUT ANY PERMIT OR LICENSE". They can also be transported and released, with the permission of the department and the owner of the land where they are to be released.

On an unrelated subject, there is no bounty program for feral hogs in Texas, as reported in the latest American Hunter. The County Hog Abatement Matching Program (CHAMPS) provides aid to COUNTIES for removing hogs, not to individual hunters. The county has to apply for the program and be approved, also.

Aquila Super Quite Ammo. It only has a priming chage, no gun powder. Fired out of a rifle barrel, it's almost silent. Buddy uses them to dispatch squirrels in downtown Austin. Says it works great at close range.

I caught 19 in a row with a box trap & cat food at my old place, bastards were out of control.

You forgot, disposing of the bodies is illegal too

Buy an adapter to fit an oil filter on the muzzle!

Somebody posted (and then removed the post) that Texas Parks and Wildlife says it's legal to remove nuisance fur bearing animals but it's way to complicated for me. From their website:

NUISANCE FUR-BEARING ANIMALS

Landowners or their agents may take nuisance fur-bearing animals in any number by any means at any time on that person's land without the need for a hunting or trapping license. However, fur-bearing animals or their pelts taken for these purposes may not be retained or possessed by anyone at any time except licensed trappers during the lawful open season and possession periods.

Nuisance fur-bearing animals may be captured and relocated if the person has received authorization from the department and the owner of the property where the release will occur. A monthly report is required and must be submitted to the department on number and kind of fur-bearers captured, location of release site, name and address of person authorized to release.

Cats hauled azz? That is funny.

Reminds me of when my older cousins would turpentine a cats rear.

You could, of course, just drop a canvas over the trap and run a hose from under the edge to the same revved up muffler.

Brilliant!

Thanks, Birdy.

The suckers hit around it all day long.

if you want to be real humane, feed them McDonalds french fries until they die of a heart attack. Fer cripes sake shoot them with a short out of a long barreled 22 rifle, if your worried about the neighbors drag the trap into the garage, put it over a tarp, wack em, and clean up with pine shavings

A .22 short fired single shot in a .22mag rifle barrel is real quite. But the case will split from firing in the oversized chamber. You'll need a screwdriver or a cleaning rod to eject the spent .22 short case. Learned that one from a old time cop who used to be our neighbor in College.

What a waste! Put them to good use. Live trap and release near a Democrats or PETA's members home, especially if they garden. GW

Why go through that fuss, some neighbor will all ways leave their can out. Let it stink if they can't put it back in their yard.

Clunk behind ears with baseball bat, then lay bat across their neck, stand on it, and pull up on their hind legs very quickly to snap their neck.

Same here...I can still see those bubbles from my second wife...

How the hell do you get the raccoon in there to shoot it? It'd rip your arms off, and besides, alot of them are bigger than a 2 liter pop bottle.

Victoro, my post containing the info from TP&WD about trapping 'coons was not removed, it is still there. Not that complicated, really, unless you are trapping and relocating a lot of animals, as a city or county department might do. My reason for posting that information was to point out that a trapping license is NOT required for "pest control" on private property.

Personally, I don't like to kill ratcoons, and when they roll those big eyes at me and look apologetic, I sometimes don't. They can be big time pests, though, and the ones who growl and snap at me, while I might understand and sympathize with their attitude, often receive the death penalty. The two I disposed of recently were trying to get into our attic, crawling all over the roof at night and getting into other stuff. They had also eaten a nest of baby birds my wife was watching on our back deck. I think some might call it evolution?

Jeez.

I feel the same way about orphans, but I manage to get through it.

I had a buddy use a chain saw as a noise distraction to dispatch a raccoon. Works as great "noise camo" for your bunny hugging neighbors!

Put the trap under water until the bubbles stop.

Yea a baseball bat works real good except first you have to get them out of a live trap which should be interesting and second you need to wack them without the help of a trap. And to the gent that likes to look into their sorry eyes, send me your address and I will ship you a big box of pissed off coons to keep you company Russ

Green Mountain sells a 28" sporter barrel for the 10-22. I forget what I paid for it but it was well worth the cost in backyard practice. With Rem Sub-sonic ammo it's about as loud as a hand clap. Cycles the action 100% which is good cause I frequently have to hit em on the run at night which usually takes a couple shots.

100% legal.

My gallon jug test had it stopping in the third jug with .35 expansion, exits possums most of the time, kills em everytime.

My favorite suppressor is a room with a window or an outside door open just two or three inches as I shoot through the crack from the far side of the room.

Louder'n the crack o' doom inside but mighty quiet � and brief � outside, even with high-speed Long Rifle hollow-points.

Release the critter in the Parks and WIldlife building some night. This will give them a thrill.

My feelings too. That's a long suffering period, relatively speaking. Just MHO.

I have a 22 caliber pellet rifle that has a 10 round magazine and it has no problem taking out anything from squirrels to rabbits to possums with very little noise

Necropost much?

Another troll, just too friggin obvious.

BTDT

In my experience, inadequate for humanely dispatching anything larger than a chipmunk.

Good one.

Not a single one of you know how to have any fun with a live trapped coon.

Put your thinking caps on gents, here I'll help. Put one in a corn sack and ease it through the door of the womens sheiter at your local KFC.

first coon of 2023.....

Guy near me had some mule deer busting down his garden fence. He got tired of fixing it and popped one with a 177 springer....killed it with a lung shot.

I spoke with the enforcement guy who didn't press charges. The offender had tried to haze them ineffectively.

Lol, good one.

How do you like the Swampfox? They are competitively priced and look ok.

CB long straight down into the brain pan between eye and ear is efficient and quiet.

My Neighbor had a good sized possum take up residency in the engine compartment of his RV.
He had a 17 cal Pellet Rifle and I have a 22 cal Pump Pellet Pistol.

We shot that Possum in the head and in the chest to the lungs probably 10 or 15 times each point blank.

I felt bad for the little guy.

We finally reached his lungs.

Next time we will be a little more humane and us a real 22 to do the deed.

Get it over quick.

Why would a new member, Squrrelnator, make his first post, on a thread that was over 9 yrs old?

I smell a rat

The spelling challenged sockpuppet/troll went straight to ignore on his first post. laughing

I've killed lots of stuff with CCI CB Shorts.

Bingo, noticed it right off too

Snow? On the Texas coast?
...and "Slick" Willie did NOT have sex with Lewinsky! LOL!

Before Federal bought CCI, they made a short round called a "CB Cap". I used them in my Ruger "Single Six" and an old Marlin 39A. The hammer falling made more noise than the round going off. A good friend had squirrels chewing into the eaves of his home in White Settlement, Texas. A suburb of Fort Worth.
I have no idea how many squirrels Steve killed with those things before he passed away.
His neighbors never suspected what he was doing.

Federal still makes a "CB Cap", but it isn't as quiet as CCI's original CB Cap.

Store owner got some Sheridan "Silver Streak" .22 caliber pellet rifles. Guy buys one and says he's tired of his neighbor's German Shepherd turn his garbage can over. Figures one pop and the dog would stay away.
About a week later, the guy comes in and wants to know if we'll buy the Sheridan back. The dog got in his trash. He popped the dog with the pellet rifle and the dog dropped dead in it's tracks! 😳!
Then he asked, "Ever try to stuff a dead, 80 pound German Shepard into a trash can before your neighbor catches you?"

Would that be a tree rat ?? You have to admit, the guy has us talking about him. Good or bad.

kwg

What ever happened to live trapped dunked into a trashcan full of water?

Ya know, since you don’t have a horse trough at your fàggie HOA condo



Edit:

After further reading, I see that this method is sort of frowned up on.

Ok…add some kittens then.

I found this site when I searched 300RUM, It took me to an old post in the Alaska forum, so yeah a new guy could end up on an old thead.

Worse than giving it to the dogs?

I found this site when I searched 300RUM, It took me to an old post in the Alaska forum, so yeah a new guy could end up on an old thead.

CCI CB shorts, CB longs, Quiets, Quiet semi-auto and I’m sure there are several more. A well placed shot and it’s all over. A member here kills hogs with a 22 CB shorts.
Rick

I was using CB Longs on raccoons in 1996.

CB shorts have a higher expansion ratio, so they get more velocity for a given noise.


CCI CB shorts have ~ 0.45 gr of powder and require ~ 24" or barrel to be BB gun quiet.

The expansion is needed to get the muzzle pressure upon bullet escapement below 1 atmosphere above ambient. That is the threshold of supersonic gas.

Even then, if the bullet strikes plywood, they are very loud. The plywood is compliant and closer to the impedance of air. This allows mechanical energy to be coupled to the air.

CCI has a segmented bullet in the Quiet line.

It's LR but is pretty quiet without a suppressor.

CCI Quiet segmented.

They kill big hogs at butchering time when hit between the eyes.

Well I shot a big raccoon right into the top of the head with a Winchester 22 short last year and the bullet actually stuck in the top of the skull. It was real old ammo and it could have been a blooper but I was unimpressed completely.

I usually take the trap and haul it off down the road about 10 miles, and kill the coon and dump it in a ditch. Problem solved, no noise within city limits, etc. I have popped a couple here in town, usually with CCI Short HPs or Quiets, but prefer to haul them off. A single shot can usually be ignored, though, as most people don't associate one quick, sharp pop with a gunshot (at least city folks don't). Gotta use quieter ammo, though, a crack from a LR HS will attract unwanted attention.

That's a lot to spend just to kill an occasional coon. OTOH, it is a gun and that's often worth the money no matter what it's use.

lmao