How To KILL A Raccoon That's Raiding Your Garden

Started by tbone0106, August 24, 2011, 06:48:20 PM

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tbone0106

Quote from: MountainStateMan on September 26, 2012, 04:24:29 PM
Wow!  this stuff works and fast.  I took out two this week.  I suggest using a flat pie pan, or bowl.  Fill the bottom and add can of Coke. Embed it in the ground so they can't knock it over, and put a can of sardines in the mix.  They can't resist!  Both raccoons didn't make it past 20 ft.

Are you a West Virginian, or some other (generally lesser) sort of Mountain Stater? Inquiring minds need to know...  :tounge:

My good friend down the road who uses that stuff says he'll never mix sardines in with it because it might attract his neighbor's numerous cats. He's always told me that he won't mix any kind of meat or fish with it because it might attract dogs, cats, etc. The straight mix he uses -- sugar pop and GM -- allows his personal pet cat to walk past it without a sideways glance, but still brings in the raccoons.

Not criticizin' Just sayin'...

Ricko

My only problem with poisening 'coons is where they will go and die and stink to high heaven if you don't find them right away. I still like my method better...trap them, shoot them in the cage, double bag and dispose of properly, this way I'm 100% in control. I've taken out 18 of those little monsters like since May, it's my new hobby :cool:.

samgoober

Quote from: Ricko on October 09, 2012, 07:52:36 PM
My only problem with poisening 'coons is where they will go and die and stink to high heaven if you don't find them right away. I still like my method better...trap them, shoot them in the cage, double bag and dispose of properly, this way I'm 100% in control. I've taken out 18 of those little monsters like since May, it's my new hobby :cool:.

The thing is though, if you use GM, you won't have to go looking for them. They'll be right beside the pan. :)

Sam
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tbone0106

Quote from: Ricko on October 09, 2012, 07:52:36 PM
My only problem with poisening 'coons is where they will go and die and stink to high heaven if you don't find them right away. I still like my method better...trap them, shoot them in the cage, double bag and dispose of properly, this way I'm 100% in control. I've taken out 18 of those little monsters like since May, it's my new hobby :cool:.
I've never seen one travel more than 30 or 40 feet from a pan of GM/soda pop. Most don't get 10 feet. Yep, if they get to cover and die, they do tend to smell a bit, but a stinking dead raccoon does not raid my garden or take up residence in my attic or bite my grandkids or screw with my cat.

tbone0106

Now that we've left Davy Crockett and Dan'l Boone -- and their coonskin-wearing fashions -- in the past, humankind has little use for the raccoon. The problem for humankind, however, is that the 'coons neither know that nor care about it.

Restrictive hunting and trapping laws in many states, along with the collapse of the market for raccoon pelts, added to the nearly perfect habitat we've crafted for them, add up to near perfection for raccoons. Naturally aggressive and adaptive, raccoons are quickly invading spaces they've not before tried to inhabit.

Like New York City, for example.

Ricko

Quote from: tbone0106 on October 09, 2012, 11:37:42 PM
I've never seen one travel more than 30 or 40 feet from a pan of GM/soda pop. Most don't get 10 feet. Yep, if they get to cover and die, they do tend to smell a bit, but a stinking dead raccoon does not raid my garden or take up residence in my attic or bite my grandkids or screw with my cat.

All the same in the end I suppose...any dead raccoon is a good raccoon but I really think that you're robbing yourself of the fun of putting a bullet in their furry little head. They snarle and bite at the barrel when you stick it in the cage and they flop around in convusions after you shoot them...it's a beeyooteeful thing watching a raccoon checking out hehehe :thumbsup: 

tbone0106

Quote from: Ricko on October 10, 2012, 11:23:21 AM
All the same in the end I suppose...any dead raccoon is a good raccoon but I really think that you're robbing yourself of the fun of putting a bullet in their furry little head. They snarle and bite at the barrel when you stick it in the cage and they flop around in convusions after you shoot them...it's a beeyooteeful thing watching a raccoon checking out hehehe :thumbsup:
You might be just sick enough that we could become friends.  :tounge:

Ricko

Quote from: tbone0106 on October 10, 2012, 02:02:24 PM
You might be just sick enough that we could become friends.  :tounge:

If you want sick...you shoulda' seen the one that I unloaded a 10 round clip on. WHAT A MESS! :lol: :lol: :lol:

walkstall

Quote from: Ricko on October 10, 2012, 08:26:28 PM
If you want sick...you shoulda' seen the one that I unloaded a 10 round clip on. WHAT A MESS! :lol: :lol: :lol:


Hmm...Or a very poor shooter.   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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Solar


There is a line between justice and revenge, but I take issue with anyone taking joy in the mutilation of a defenseless animal.
It's one thing to protect your property, but another when  you think others share in your joy of brutality.
I'm locking this thread, this is not what this forum is about, killing should never be a joy.

One should step back and do some serious soul searching. I'd like to think it was mere braggadocio, but that's not how it comes across.

If you really want to keep these varmints at bay, get a damn dog, that's how I remedied the issue here in the wilderness.
Seriously, there is no excuse for not having a dog if you want a garden, every settler coming out west knew if they were to survive, they needed the company of several dogs.
I'd ask what is your excuse for not having a couple or more dogs, but quite honestly I don't give a damn, but to complain about intruders yet not have the first line of defense screams of arrogant stupidity.
I know many of you would love to reply to this, but seriously, you all know I'm right in the end.
There is no excuse for not having dogs protecting your hard work.

So I'm locking this thread because I want people to know this kind of behavior is not condoned by this site.
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Hi, Y'all:

I hate coons and I  shoot them on sight.  Several years ago three of them got into my hen house and butchered twenty of my twenty-five laying hens.  It may be politically incorrect to shoot coons, but I'd rather see a raccoon go hungry than anyone in my family.

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WOLFY

This is directed at the raccoon problem .... from a different angle. I'm not particularly fond of the idea of poisoning anything, BUT, we've had a family of raccoons move in (burrow) under one of our decks. It's totally mind boggling the amount of feces that this family produces. I'm an engineer and travel a great deal which means my wife is burdened with dealing with the disposal of, and cleaning of, this constant mess. I have twelve acres on my mini-farm, five acres of lawn, a one acre pond and six acres of woods, any of the aforementioned the raccoons have the freedom to use as their personal latrine. But no, they insist on defecating on the decks and ramps. The day that everything is hosed off and scrubbed down with a disinfectant is the prelude of the night that they have yet another dump party .... ONLY on the decks and ramps.
You can take this to the bank .... I've ordered the Golden Malrin and I WILL gleefully put out several dishes of the concoction in several locations. If we put a significant dent in the raccoon population, then so be it. Several years ago we had a family of raccoons chew thru the soffit of my garage and moved in. We opted out of the poison route and did "the right thing" and hired a animal removal service to eliminate the problem. Two adult female mothers, one adult male, four baby raccoons and $1200.00 of my money later, the problem was solved. This company simply put up spring traps that killed every one of them. Well my take on this is, I paid my dues and the only difference I can see between the "pros" and me is their method of death might be a little faster than mine, but my total investment will be $7.95 for the GM and .50 cents for the coke. I figure I'm $1191 and some change ahead of my last experience.

walkstall

Quote from: WOLFY on October 28, 2015, 04:36:25 PM
This is directed at the raccoon problem .... from a different angle. I'm not particularly fond of the idea of poisoning anything, BUT, we've had a family of raccoons move in (burrow) under one of our decks. It's totally mind boggling the amount of feces that this family produces. I'm an engineer and travel a great deal which means my wife is burdened with dealing with the disposal of, and cleaning of, this constant mess. I have twelve acres on my mini-farm, five acres of lawn, a one acre pond and six acres of woods, any of the aforementioned the raccoons have the freedom to use as their personal latrine. But no, they insist on defecating on the decks and ramps. The day that everything is hosed off and scrubbed down with a disinfectant is the prelude of the night that they have yet another dump party .... ONLY on the decks and ramps.
You can take this to the bank .... I've ordered the Golden Malrin and I WILL gleefully put out several dishes of the concoction in several locations. If we put a significant dent in the raccoon population, then so be it. Several years ago we had a family of raccoons chew thru the soffit of my garage and moved in. We opted out of the poison route and did "the right thing" and hired a animal removal service to eliminate the problem. Two adult female mothers, one adult male, four baby raccoons and $1200.00 of my money later, the problem was solved. This company simply put up spring traps that killed every one of them. Well my take on this is, I paid my dues and the only difference I can see between the "pros" and me is their method of death might be a little faster than mine, but my total investment will be $7.95 for the GM and .50 cents for the coke. I figure I'm $1191 and some change ahead of my last experience.

Please remember to keep all your pets and farm animals safe.  Also if you have kids cover that with them. 
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

WOLFY

Children are long gone  ..... no pets ...... and to answer the person who railed on about "just get a damned dog" that in his ( or her ) words " would solve the problem without having to poison the raccoons ". My wife and I are caregivers for her 91 year old mother who has a severe allergy to dog and cat dander, so much so that we had to give away our two Jack Russel terriers when agreeing to have her come live with us. Please don't lump everyone together with some of the more ..... hmmmmm ....... let's just say zealous folks who can be more blunt than needed. Everyone who chooses to use the GM makes their own personal decision based on their own personal circumstances. I have, and I sleep very well every night.