How do i kill a raccoon
07-11-2006, 06:17 AM
#21
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NC
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RE: How do i kill a raccoon
BTW just look how cute the are till u get close and they try 2 rip your face off 
07-11-2006, 06:27 AM
#22
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Nekoosa Wi USA
Posts: 6,066
RE: How do i kill a raccoon
What ever you dont do what my wifes cousin did and beat one over the head with your 800.00 bow. Well that is unless its a PSE and is backed wiht a warranty like pse's. Which is exactly what he had.
07-11-2006, 07:16 AM
#23
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 913
RE: How do i kill a raccoon
ORIGINAL: Tigerfan
Depends on what you want to do with them afterwards. My Dad had a coon one time at our camp on the Ouachita river that kept getting in the garbage and tearing it up. He no longer has coon problems anymore. This will also work with cats too so you have to be careful. This is what he did:
He got a battery charger, a 3" nail, 3 to 4 foot piece insulated wire, a BBQ grill grate, 2' 2x4 (optional), big fish hook like you would use worm fishing for bass and a piece of meat (chicken, steak, whatever).
Lay the grill grate on the ground and drive the nail into a wall or into the 2x4 (nail the 2x4 into a post or wall) to where the coon has to stand on the grate to get to it. Take the hook and solder it to the wire or fix the hook to the wire so that it will not come off. Wrap the wire around the nail so that the hook hangs directly over the grate and that it will stay on during contact with the coon. Put the meat on the hook. Connect the negative side of the battery charger to the grate and the positive side to the wire that is hanging with the hook.
What will happen is this. The coon will come up during the middle of the night and smell the food. He will stand on the grate and grab the meat with his mouth, this will hook him like a big ole fish, the positive (hook) will meet the negative (grate) and the conductor will be the coon and that will not be good for him.
You have to be careful also because this could cause a fire. Positive current and negative ground do not do well together with dc current. Have you ever hit the negative post on your battery when trying to tighten the positive post down, big ole spark. When Dad did it he heard it happen and when the coon stopped banging he unplugged the battery charger. Good luck.
Depends on what you want to do with them afterwards. My Dad had a coon one time at our camp on the Ouachita river that kept getting in the garbage and tearing it up. He no longer has coon problems anymore. This will also work with cats too so you have to be careful. This is what he did:
He got a battery charger, a 3" nail, 3 to 4 foot piece insulated wire, a BBQ grill grate, 2' 2x4 (optional), big fish hook like you would use worm fishing for bass and a piece of meat (chicken, steak, whatever).
Lay the grill grate on the ground and drive the nail into a wall or into the 2x4 (nail the 2x4 into a post or wall) to where the coon has to stand on the grate to get to it. Take the hook and solder it to the wire or fix the hook to the wire so that it will not come off. Wrap the wire around the nail so that the hook hangs directly over the grate and that it will stay on during contact with the coon. Put the meat on the hook. Connect the negative side of the battery charger to the grate and the positive side to the wire that is hanging with the hook.
What will happen is this. The coon will come up during the middle of the night and smell the food. He will stand on the grate and grab the meat with his mouth, this will hook him like a big ole fish, the positive (hook) will meet the negative (grate) and the conductor will be the coon and that will not be good for him.
You have to be careful also because this could cause a fire. Positive current and negative ground do not do well together with dc current. Have you ever hit the negative post on your battery when trying to tighten the positive post down, big ole spark. When Dad did it he heard it happen and when the coon stopped banging he unplugged the battery charger. Good luck.
07-12-2006, 06:03 AM
#24
Join Date: Mar 2005
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RE: How do i kill a raccoon
Tigerfan. Do you want to be my new friend. I like you.
I have been haveing problems with crows in my trash. I am wondering if something like this would work. I would have to put the trash out on non trash days so I don't zap the trash man. I don't have to kill them, just zap them. I would reeducate the birds. I could use an electric fence as the source. Ideas.
I have been haveing problems with crows in my trash. I am wondering if something like this would work. I would have to put the trash out on non trash days so I don't zap the trash man. I don't have to kill them, just zap them. I would reeducate the birds. I could use an electric fence as the source. Ideas.
07-12-2006, 06:20 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: How do i kill a raccoon
I got plenty of those buggers, I can't keep them out of my damn deer feeders........
To be honest if I could find a local near my property that had coon hounds and if it wouldn't interfere with my deer hunting I would gladly let them run the dogs for a few nights.
To be honest if I could find a local near my property that had coon hounds and if it wouldn't interfere with my deer hunting I would gladly let them run the dogs for a few nights.
04-03-2010, 06:49 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2007
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The most humane way is to just educate them and not have to kill them! PETA loves me...not! Invite the Rev over and with his bow he will shoot and miss and the coon will run off laughing or possibly die from laughing.He is a armed conservationist....ask any deer in 2 different states!
04-03-2010, 07:17 AM
#29
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Hello
Use a havahart trap, bait it with sardines. Then you can release it at a remote area or dispose of it. A farmer I knew trapped them in his barn and had a 55 gallon drum filled with water. He'd toss the trap and raccoon in the drum for 10 minutes, dispose of the dead raccoon, reset the trap.
Dan
Use a havahart trap, bait it with sardines. Then you can release it at a remote area or dispose of it. A farmer I knew trapped them in his barn and had a 55 gallon drum filled with water. He'd toss the trap and raccoon in the drum for 10 minutes, dispose of the dead raccoon, reset the trap.
Dan
04-03-2010, 06:18 PM
#30
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Burleson Texas
Posts: 12,560
The most humane way is to just educate them and not have to kill them! PETA loves me...not! Invite the Rev over and with his bow he will shoot and miss and the coon will run off laughing or possibly die from laughing.He is a armed conservationist....ask any deer in 2 different states!
I could be saying something about you recent dates lately!!