I’m gonna try to hunt Racoons!

[YZ-80]

I've shot all the groundhogs on my property (I think) and now that deer season is over and the does are too pregnant to shoot on crop damage, I need something besides spring Turkey to hunt. I have 33 acres land-locked by adjacent properties in AG retention. Also got 1,500 ft of frontage on a healthy and swift creek. I ordered a coon squaller for 14 bucks and will hunt the little bastages during the day. I have a couple of questions: 1) what do I hunt with? I have all kinds of rifles but was planning on using a 22lr with CCI velocitors. Will this kill 'em? 2) How do I set up? I have ladder stands down by the creek. I see "coon sign" like tracks in the mud on the creek bank but have also watched videos where guys are calling them during the day and they materialize out of hollow trees and such. Today, there were coon tracks on the seat of one of my ladder stands! 3) What do you do with a Raccoon? I can't imagine eating one, but might get one mounted. Are the pelts worth anything?

Thanks!

-YZ

 

[sturner]

Be lucky to get 5$ here
Growing up we got 35
Yes they will kill the heck out them
You can eat them but they greasy

 

[338 dude]

I've shot all the groundhogs on my property (I think) and now that deer season is over and the does are too pregnant to shoot on crop damage, I need something besides spring Turkey to hunt. I have 33 acres land-locked by adjacent properties in AG retention. Also got 1,500 ft of frontage on a healthy and swift creek. I ordered a coon squaller for 14 bucks and will hunt the little bastages during the day. I have a couple of questions: 1) what do I hunt with? I have all kinds of rifles but was planning on using a 22lr with CCI velocitors. Will this kill 'em? 2) How do I set up? I have ladder stands down by the creek. I see "coon sign" like tracks in the mud on the creek bank but have also watched videos where guys are calling them during the day and they materialize out of hollow trees and such. Today, there were coon tracks on the seat of one of my ladder stands! 3) What do you do with a Raccoon? I can't imagine eating one, but might get one mounted. Are the pelts worth anything?

Thanks!

-YZ

Most are hunted at night be careful many Coons out during the day carry rabies And they are edible supposedly but I don't know anyone who eats them

 

[Bucklowery]

They are rough on corn feeders here and my chickens. I shootem all. Planning on doing the same and trying to bait some coyotes before turkey season

Thanks

Buck

 

[sturner]

Hunted them dogs, spot lighted and smoked them out
YZ I bet ain't nobody got a Cajun toothpick in Maryland

 

[338 dude]

Hunted them dogs, spot lighted and smoked them out
YZ I bet ain't nobody got a Cajun toothpick in Maryland

I'll bet not a lot of people know what that is LOL

 

[26Reload]

That thar' toothpick is small compared to the bear picks.....

 

[Savage 12BVSS]

Up here they are furbearers and protected from hunting. They run with dogs and trap, They empty corn feeders for deer and clean out the birdfeeders at night. Good Luck

 

[sturner]

Up here they are furbearers and protected from hunting. They run with dogs and trap, They empty corn feeders for deer and clean out the birdfeeders at night. Good Luck

Really we kill them by the scores they ain't nothing but corn thieves

 

[Savage 12BVSS]

Really we kill them by the scores they ain't nothing but corn thieves

I agree with you there, 4-5 will come everynight to my cornfeeders for the deer after season. They wear the batteries out in my game cam and make me mad watching the vid's of them all night eating corn. I do have a video of a 10 point coming up to a corn pile with a big coon on it. The coon flattens out and bares his teeth with the hair standing up on his back. That buck stops and looks at him, then stiffens his front legs and comes forward and dips his rack down and rolls that coon off in blinding speed. He rolls a couple three times and heads on out to other places. Gotta love game cams

 

[YZ-80]

YZ I bet ain't nobody got a Cajun toothpick in Maryland

Ain't that what the Shiners use for the steam comin' out of the Still?

 

[YZ-80]

Most are hunted at night be careful many Coons out during the day carry rabies And they are edible supposedly but I don't know anyone who eats them

Last spring I was out on another farm where I can reach out a bit but was carrying my CZ 455 with the .17 hmr barrel on it. It was around 3 in the afternoon and I saw what I thought was a groundhog at about 200 yards between the harvested corn stalks. I had the Harris on the CZ so I figured what the heck, I'll take a crack at that thing. I did and it reacted weird - kinda lumbered away and then went down in a hole. Still thinking it was a chuck, I went out to investigate and there was the hamburgler in his hole looking up at me. I had hit him but he was very lethargic and was trying to come back out of the hole! That's when I put another .17 in him and then kinda freaked out thinking I might have gotten blood spatter on me. That thing must have been rabid.

 

[sturner]

That thar' toothpick is small compared to the bear picks.....

We would tie em together and hang em from our rear view mirror in our trucks
I reckon you could use a bears as a walking stick that would be cool

 

[Dosh]

When you guys get rid of yours, my neighbor has some after his chickens. If it wasn't for his Great Pyrenees they would wipe out all the chickens. I can hear the dog barking at night. Come and getem.