Racoons
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Posts: 63
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.
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hillsdale,IN
Posts: 552
RE: Racoons
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.
#5
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 151
RE: Racoons
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
#8
RE: Raccoons
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.