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Post by clovein123 on Nov 22, 2015 8:04:20 GMT -5
When your cat food goes missing, you know you have a problem. 20 pounder!   |
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Post by sakorifle on Nov 22, 2015 9:50:13 GMT -5
Greetings
Are you allowed to shoot them or not?
Regards
Billy
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Post by clovein123 on Nov 22, 2015 10:02:50 GMT -5
Yes, season is currently in plus as a property owner you have the right to trap nuisance animals. Please check your local regs as to discharging a firearm within city / county limits though. My county allows this but the neighboring city does not. I have the IN Professional Trappers License and that city would not allow me to dispatch coyotes with a .22 cal.
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Post by sakorifle on Nov 22, 2015 11:17:21 GMT -5
greetings
thanks clovein123
i have never seen a coon i am over the pond in England and almost in Scotland, no coons here. lol
And quite a way from a town never mind a city, lol
Seems like yoy have a season for everything over there, vermin over here,foxes,rabbits, pigeons,canada geese,wildboar in some areas are open season all year.
different hunting cultures, no hunting liscense needed over here anymore in England, just a firearms liscense, and it is mostly self policing so no need for the money your system generates.
regards
Billy
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Post by moose1am on Nov 22, 2015 16:19:04 GMT -5
I've live trapped at least five different raccoons off my back porch. I use the Have A heart Live animal trap Raccoon size. I bait it with sardines when I get serious about getting them into the trap and away from my bird feeders. I take them about 20 miles away and release them in a wildlife refuge where they can live a long life if they don't get shot by raccoon hunters or eaten by coyotes. Funny story about this. After I released one that I had given a water bath while still in the cage I learned that one of my fishing friends had a raccoon try to climb into his boat at the same area I released my raccoon. He posted a picture of the raccoon which he took from his boat. It sure looked like the raccoon that I released in that area. But then again I've released at least 3 raccoons in this one area near a boat launch ramp and parking lot. I figured that they would dissipate out into the rest of the Wildlife Area on their own. Maybe this one stayed in the area and begged for food from the other fishermen. After all he knew that I was feeding him with bird seed every day. Even thought I thought I was just feeding the birds until one night around midnight my outdoor porch security light went on high brightness as the infrared trigger was turned on by the movement of the warmed blooded raccoon on my back deck. I got up and saw the little fellow in my bird feeder eating all my sunflower seeds. It was after that night that I knew I had other uninvited house guess eating my bird seed at night.
I must have had an entire family of raccoons living in the hollow tree right next to my house until I trapped and moved them all.
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 23, 2015 18:20:20 GMT -5
My son shot a 23# out of the tree the other night. He was in the horse barn eating the grain.
Skinned her out and the fat was thick on her.
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Post by nfalls116 on Nov 24, 2015 8:23:13 GMT -5
Well the fur may just be prime, you should be able to pay the fur buyer 3 or 4 dollars to take it off your hands
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Post by nfalls116 on Nov 24, 2015 8:24:25 GMT -5
My son shot a 23# out of the tree the other night. He was in the horse barn eating the grain. Skinned her out and the fat was thick on her. did the coon come in and bother him while he was eating the grain? Why did he shoot the coon? |
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Post by throbak on Nov 24, 2015 8:33:25 GMT -5
If there in there eating there also crapping on everything .My wife gets along with all critters . She's ready to open coon season here on the barn coons
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Post by chubwub on Nov 24, 2015 12:02:27 GMT -5
I hate raccoon in the barn. They get into everything and crap on the hay. Lost a lot of good horse hay to them and possums over the years. If I find either specie in the barn, they are toast unless they have younguns and even then relocation will be commencing post haste. Both raccoon and possum also carry EPM which is a protozoa that affects the central nervous system of horses. Very nasty stuff to treat. One of our horses had to be treated for it and I know 3 other people who have had cases. Even when you catch it early it can really alter the way a horse moves for life. www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/nervous_system/equine_protozoal_myeloencephalitis/overview_of_equine_protozoal_myeloencephalitis.html |
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Post by bullseye69 on Nov 24, 2015 14:11:27 GMT -5
My son shot a 23# out of the tree the other night. He was in the horse barn eating the grain. Skinned her out and the fat was thick on her. did the coon come in and bother him while he was eating the grain? Why did he shoot the coon? LOL........... They make a mess of the barn and poop on everything. Not good for horses. |
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Post by throbak on Nov 24, 2015 15:00:20 GMT -5
I knew possums carried EPM coons Also??
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Post by chubwub on Nov 24, 2015 19:12:52 GMT -5
I knew possums carried EPM coons Also?? Yes, it is newer research. Domestic cats can also be carriers as well as armadillos, foxes and sea otters. |
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