Racoons Again!

July 02, 2019, 08:01 AM

chellim1

Racoons Again!

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When I want ‘extreme prejudice’ I consider ‘flybait’ mixed with coke. Of course tuck it where nothing else can get it, like way under the house.

Be careful with that stuff. They can die in a very inconvenient location and they stink to high heaven when the corpse rots and you can't get to it to remove it.

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July 02, 2019, 08:45 AM

MikeinNC

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:

My next purchase will be a suppressor.

Make sure you get a take apart one you can clean yourself, and avoid aluminum..stainless steel or titanium is easily cleaned with chemicals where aluminum must be bead blasted or scrubbed.

/drift

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July 02, 2019, 09:24 AM

dave7378

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Originally posted by chellim1:
quote:
When I want ‘extreme prejudice’ I consider ‘flybait’ mixed with coke. Of course tuck it where nothing else can get it, like way under the house.

Be careful with that stuff. They can die in a very inconvenient location and they stink to high heaven when the corpse rots and you can't get to it to remove it.

Yes and they will stink for a very long time. Trapping will work but that area will need to be professionally sealed off to prevent reentry. If there is any raccoon "smell" down there which there is bound to be, it will be attractive to future raccoons. Sometimes putting some tennis balls soaked in ammonia is enough to chase them out and seek refuge elsewhere.

July 02, 2019, 08:22 PM

slabsides45

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I shoot them with my .22 that has a thermal sight.

They never see me and I can't miss.

I can help you learn to miss, Marzy....

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July 03, 2019, 02:16 PM

wingspar

Well, I blocked off the entrance with concrete blocks and rebar, then piled rocks and scrap pieces of concrete in front of the concrete blocks and rebar. I recorded 29 videos between 9:29 pm and 10:42 pm two nights ago of them trying to get back under the house. They could not move anything and even the water bowl for the cat has water in it this morning and it is clean and not full of dirt from the coons. I don’t know where they went, but hopefully they are gone from my house. I have trapped a lot of coons, but none for years as it’s been that long since they have found (made) another entrance to under my house, which has no crawl space for anything larger than a coon. .22's are not an option for me, mostly cause I’m not going to sit there for 24 hours waiting for them to show up to get the shot and even then, too many houses.

Does cougar piss really work? How do house cats react to that? Both my neighbors and myself have cats.