Can you call coons without electronic calls, I am looking to try if it can be done with mouth calls, etc. anyone do this? what do you use? what time of day? I got coons everywhere around here. Thanks, Plinker

I never heard of calling them ,plink.
Seems they just show up.I know they love dry cat or dog food.
Put some of that out where you can get a clean shot from the kitchen window.

I've had a couple respond to a cotton tail in-distress hand call and several from a squeeker. I have a friend who has used some turkey calls at night with succuss.

Might depend on what you call 'em.

So far I've had not a shred of luck with the following:
Raccoon
Rocky
Hatwear
Coon
Masked Bandit
Masked Marauder
Lizard food
Sorry Sumbitch
Trashcan Pirate
Gol Danged Varmint!

"Come to Papa" don't work too well either.

From all of that I deduce that they are much better catchers than listeners. Futhermore, they are not very discriminating about what they eat. Some folks say "use that" or "use this"....it all works. If you really want to screw with their heads toss 'em a sugar cube. Make sure to have the CamCorder handy when they start washing it off. They are a perfect audience for a magician...

Dan

Pres., TYHC

http://www.CantReallySay.WhatImThinkin

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"Come to Papa" don't work too well either

It actually worked once for me with a sea-trout. It took the fly when I said that, but I guess I can't be 100% sure it would not have taken it anyway...

And it have not worked since, neither with salmon nor sea-trout...

On the farm we useta live on, "calling coons" wasn't the problem; the farmer next door raised sweet corn. During a certain time of the year, it was beating them off from the car to the front door.... I'm talking thousands and thousands of coons, all screaming, growling and trilling throughout the night. What I wouldn't have given for a good Infrared spotlight and a little direct descendant of John Moses Browning.

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Can you call coons without electronic calls, I am looking to try if it can be done with mouth calls, etc. anyone do this? what do you use? what time of day? I got coons everywhere around here. Thanks, Plinker

Oh God!
Don't get me started.

LD

I never tryed to call a coon,,My hounds called me when they found one though As mentioned before,,They bait pretty easily,,maby poke a hole in a tin of sardines big enough to get a light chain through and stake it so they can't take it away,,,cat food works,,but tends to draw in skunks as well,,not so much with sardines,,good luck there Plinker!!,,Clay

Yep, you can call them.

I use a marshmallow.

Then I call them a couple of four-letter words before I drop the hammer.

Kraft Jet-puffed are just awesome. I haven't seen a coon yet that will turn one down.

I hate-them...much worse than crats. I think last year I got rid of about fourty-something in my back yard...It butts-up to the marsh, so I have an endless supply.

My favorite is calling them into a Hav-a-hart trap with about 6 marshmallows. One just outside, one halfway in there, couple wedged in the mesh past the treddle and a couple way in the back.

As far as calling them with a call, never had any success.

Bait...that's another story.

Frosty03

About 10pm at night use a wounded woodpecker call, works great around here anyway.