Normally this time of year the pig business usually picks up. It has been slow so far! With corn piling up under some feeders the coons have been really eating well. Usually I set at time deadline; if its still here after ten I'll shoot it. Not anymore if they show they get shot! One showed up the other night, I was aiming at its nose but shot a little high. Scalped it but did not break the skull. Two nights ago at 8:20 one showed and I touched off the 375. Somehow it got up and staggered off. I waited awhile and two more showed! One went right to eating, the other would stand on its back legs and stretch as high as it could and I guess smell. Finally one got behind the other and I touch the 375 off again. only got one. Last night one showed early so I flipped the legs on the Harris bipod and squeezed the 375 off again! hoping the pig will appear soon!


I have always heard they taste like pork!

Raccoons must be edible as according to my folks, during the Great Depression,lots of people lived off them.
SOME FOLKS STILL RUN THEM WITH DOGS, SHOOT THEM, AND EAT THEM.

A last thought on Raccoons and corn feeders:

Last new deer lease I was on had a new feeder near a creek and it was plagued with raccoons. One member set four traps below and around the feeder and within a week caught 11 raccoons, solving our problem. From than on, we shot every one we saw and left them for hog bait.

Local folks I know live across from a
big thru town irrigation ditch.
Across the alley is a cafe that throws
their garbage out back for the coons and
feral cats.

Lady said the coons have taken over her
back yard so much she can't even go out
there to water the lawn or the big male
will threaten her. Animal services says
"they live in the ditch area and can't do
anything about it".

CO/wildlife refuses to help. Cafe owners
threatened to call the law if they do
anything about it.

I'll be damned if I wouldn't have some
ring tailed furs long ago.
This is in town. So a .375 wouldn't be
very practical. I'd use a .17M2 or .22.
Likely before a box trap.

George

We have a hell of a problem with them. The worst in on the protein feeders. They pull on the spouts and have even flattened out the lip on some .

We trap a pile of them . New coons always show up to replace those we dispatch.

I drove up to a feeder one day. There were 4 coons under the feeder. I ran them up a tree and shot all four. That night , 9 more showed up.

George, an "adult" pellet gun will quietly make a dent in your friends' problem. But those cafe owners need their thinking "adjusted" with a Louisville Slugger, if you get my meaning -- or at the very least, code enforcement.

Here's my answer--or the box-type live traps. If you order some, be sure and get the setting tool too. As I type, I have one in a cage trap in the yard scheduled for its last "ride of shame" to quote a friend.

I use banana-flavored moon pies as bait because it doesn't attract skunks or 'possums as much.

https://www.flemingtraps.com/d...oof-racoon-trap.html

My daddy was a coon hunter when I was a young teenager and used to tell the story of how they would kill coons and sell them to the local meat markets in South Georgia. Now this was before my time, probably in the late thirties or early forties. He said after they dressed out the coons, the meat market ask them to start leaving the feet on them. It seems he had bought several “coons” that turned out to be house cats. Leaving the feet on the coons helped the meat market guy verify it was coons after all.

In a 10 week period we took 64 coons and put them in the witness protection program from our 3 barns! Plus as a bonus caught 1 young fox 3 times.

They can be a real pain on bear baits also

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Finally one got behind the other and I touch the 375 off again. only got one.

Huh. Next time, try a Barnes TTSX, lol.

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Originally posted by k-22hornet.:

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Finally one got behind the other and I touch the 375 off again. only got one.

Huh. Next time, try a Barnes TTSX, lol.

Hell! I'll loan you my 577 double rifle if the 375 is not big enough!
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