My dad said that my great-grandpa used to smoke coons out of hollow trees, but he wasn't sure how he went about it. Anybody know anything about this?

Isn't that bad for your health?

get some of your military buddies give you some smoke canisters

Build a small low intensity firs in the hollow of the tree with the fire on the ground and keep the fire nearly smoothered so it smokes a lot. That'll get them out .

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
Isn't that bad for your health?

Yes, smoking is harmful to your health according to the Surgeon General

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smoking coons

Do you light the tail and draw on the mouth? Or vice versa???

I used to get them out of big cottonwoods, but the holes in the trunk, above ground, went down and not up, it would have been hard to try smoke, I would climb up, put my ear to the hole, listen for noise, haul a chain saw up, cut a hole big enough to stick my arm in with a .22 pistol, empty a magazine or two, shimmy down to the approximate bottom of the hole, cut another hole with the saw so I could pull them out. Worked every time. I was making big money, $6 each unskinned! THat was in the Republican River valley!

said on the news he was trying to quit

Hey Lloyd-----

I think smoking coons might give you rabies!
LOL

I'll let you guys know how I do.....hope I don't get hooked on em.

I think I will leave this one alone!!!!

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Originally posted by OLBIKER:
I think I will leave this one alone!!!!

Probably a good idea!

Naw, keep it going, this could be the most fun post ever! I can't think up a lot of funny stuff but some of you are GREAT!

I want my coons dead before smokin' em! Have you ever tried to light a live coon? Better have stock in Band-aid and plenty of Peroxide. Merry Chistmas and God Bless, Louis

nope but knew some boys down south that had a rig for holding them. It was cross shaped. Alot of them held bottles of something too looked like peroxide but i dont think thats what it was. They said it made a good antiseptic though.