Raccoon Hunting Tips?

[The Chicken Lady]

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That trick is also mentioned in Where the Red Fern Grows (awesome and sad book, by the way!).

 

[yotetrapper]

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It depends on your attitudes towards what you consider unreasonable cruelty.

But if you're not, then it is a real good idea (and required by law in some places) that you think ahead to take care of the problem BEFORE the babies are born.


Pat

Are there actually ANY states that prohibit you from shooting an animal destroying livestock??

 

[Miltonchix]

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I watched last week a report on FOX News where a guy here in FL is being prosecuted for shooting dogs that had been attacking/harrassing his cattle.
Somehow a tourist saw the action and shot video. He is being prosecuted because, from the video, it appears he shot them running away. He shot the first one, the second one starts to leave and he shoots it. Therfore, according to prosecutors, there was no longer a threat because the dogs were trying to leave. He'll probably get off when he gets to court and proves that this has happened over and over. But in the meantime he has to go through the legal hassels and has had his good name destroyed on national TV. Both dogs survived by the way. Evidently he needs a larger caliber weapon. So now, even he if is acquitted, he will probably have to pay vet bills.

 

[HillCountryMomma]

Oh gosh, this thread has me giggling away.

Not at the predator losses, but at the lovely 'I'm gonna kill things dead' sarcasm.

I'm right there with y'all. Heck, I'm probably worse cause I'm female and supposed to be the 'gentler' sex. To heck with that!! When the wild pig was terrorizing our place *I* was the one that went out in the dead of night with my Ruger Redhawk, took one heart/lung shot and dropped the thing dead. My pro hunter neighbor had tried to kill it a week earlier and only managed to shoot it's jaw while going for the more esteemed head shot. Really ticked the pig off.

Now I have something tagging chickens. Took a couple of my young birds, and one of my big Barred Rock layers. Just as soon as I can come across its path at night it's history. I think it's probably a raccoon.

I have a 12 ga and my .44 Magnum. What would y'all suggest? I think I only have low recoil and 00 buckshot for the 12 ga right now. I really was just kinda wanting to pepper it's behind in hopes that it'd either kill it, or convince it to never come back again (and tell all its friends not to come back either).

In all honestly I love our local wildlife. I just wish the critters would be happy eating other native wildlife, then we could all go back to living in peace and harmony.

Liz

 

[yotetrapper]

Being a trapper, one thing I can never get across to non-hunter/trappers is that I DO love the animals. And I've seen firsthand what unchecked populations of animals can do. The diseases.... mange, rabies, distemper. Have you ever seen a coyote die of mange? It is horrible. Or a coon slobbering and walking into trees? If hunters/trappers dont reduce numbers, ol Mother Nature will in a much harsher way.

Then there's the damage caused by overpopulation. Thousands of acres of timber land in the south LOST to beaver damage. Millions of song birds, gamebirds and rabbits lost to coyotes, fox and feral cats. Not to mention livestock.

And the attacks. Ever notice most coyote attacks on humans (usually children) happen in either CA or MA? Those two states have outlawed trapping.

Sorry for the rant, but I DO love watching a coon work the bank of a creek, a fox gliding over the snowy fields, and a beaver slapping the water with his tail as much, if not more, than those who do not ever kill animals.

 

[patandchickens]

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It depends on your attitudes towards what you consider unreasonable cruelty.

But if you're not, then it is a real good idea (and required by law in some places) that you think ahead to take care of the problem BEFORE the babies are born.


Pat

Are there actually ANY states that prohibit you from shooting an animal destroying livestock??

I have no idea, though it wouldn't surprise me <rolls eyes>.

However, AFAIK the laws generally pertain to killing the animal WHILE it is harassing livestock. Not just (trapping and) killing a critter because it happens to belong to the same species as you saw one of 'em harassing your animals the day before. You know?


Pat, NOT opposed to killing predators when necessary

 

[Cetawin]

I'm right there with y'all. Heck, I'm probably worse cause I'm female and supposed to be the 'gentler' sex.

Liz

hehehehe same here and I am about as weak as a cornered tiger (or so my husband says)...I am the first one out the door with a 9mm and my bow or a rifle.​

 

[Kentucky]

Last evening then again during the night was another attempt to breech my defenses by wildlife; first a hawk and later a coon to "kill and/or eat" the wife's chickens.

Obviously it was a bad decision for both and this morning I'm pleased to report that all (8)eight of her precious little flock remain safe.

Kentucky

 

[Cetawin]

Well done....watch killing those aerial predators...5,000.00 fine and or 5 years in jail for killing any birds of prey. So I am assuming you meant you killed the coon.