Racoons
 

I would like to try and harvest some racoons to see the grouse numbers go up. Anyone have any advice on how to hunt them? I have some coyote calls and I have called them in before with a wounded rabbit sound but looking for a different approach. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

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I use coon cuffs or egg traps they work good and there is no pelt damage. They will run you about 15 to 20 bucks each but that is here in CANADA. Good luck hope this helps you a bit...:D:D:D

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IF it is legal in your state,which Im not even sure if it is legal in my state, just drive around on a four wheeler or walk around fields and creeks and use a spot light to locate glowing eyes in trees and walk up to the tree and use a coon squaler call to get them to look at you and pop them with a .22 or any other weopen of choice. This can be very effective, but my favorite has to be just trapping them. Set the trap, bait it, and wait.

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You may be too late to hunt them now You might want to check your regs just to be sure. I know Iowas coon season ended a couple months ago

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trap them, most places you can hunt or trap varmits in the offseason as pest control, ask some neighbor farmers if they want them to keep coons away from the sileage piles, one guy would use roadkills for this, maybe they would even pay for the dead coons

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I think I will try trapping them. Thanks for the info everyone!

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hand traps work well

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I like using a live trap baited with sardines, a honey-bun or peanut butter. It is getting hotter now so the honey-bun or peanut butter may work better. I know a few coon hunters and they are always looking for a live coon to help train puppies.

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What makes you think that will increase the grouse numbers?

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Im just trying to get all the grouse predators that I can off my property. And since racoons do go after grouse, I figured it would be a few extra grouse.

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feral cats or "barn cats" as people like to call those efficient little wild game killers and skunks and opossums are probaly the biggest grouse predators but to call in the coon there are tapes for electronic calleers that have coon kittens and things like that

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We have been plaqued with racoons getting in to our bird feeders, tried everything including wiring up 120 volts. Zapped one but I think he was
the one that returned and figured out how to get around it.Tried a big box trap, he wouldn't go in. Finally took plywood and inserted short nails through it every square inch. That kept him but it was a pain settting it up every night. Last ditch effort I took two packs of rat poison and mixed it up on a paper plate and slid it under the porch. I haven't seen him since.

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They eat eggs.......