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  1. bruceha2000

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    Looks to me like he had a pistol in the second video. I got my .177 at Walmart, ours didn't have a lot of selection, no .22s and the pistols they had didn't seem very powerful. I didn't see any as big as what he has, mostly the size you would carry in a small holster. I ended up with the Gamo...
  2. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Glad to see he wasn't successful the first shot. Happens to me a LOT. In fact only one time I did 1 shot kill a critter in the trap it was a woodchuck. And it was the FIRST time I used the gun after killing the coon in the coop. Figured it was easy in the trap. But nope. Every one since then has...
  3. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Yeah, I heard the pellet gun fire. How does he get them to stay still so he can get the muzzle on their heads? I find the critters in the traps aren't very cooperative in that regard. They move all over the place, even if just their heads.
  4. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    I gather he isn't trapping coons to keep them away from chickens or he wouldn't have let the juveniles go. Guess they make better eating when full grown.
  5. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Since this thread was resurrected I guess I'll add this summer's trapping activities. First off I fenced an acre which includes the west walls of both the small and large barn. 4' sheep and goat, topped with a ground wire at 4.5' and a hot wire at 5'. Anything climbing over will be quite...
  6. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Yep, 1/2" hardware cloth is a MUST over all openings. If you have very large/strong predators, 1x2 or 2x5 wire as well.
  7. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    A BIT worried? Coons climb trees. The one I trapped in my coop (converted horse stall) 2 hours before sunset was halfway up the post on the strike side of the open people door when I spotted it. I had gone to the barn to safely lock the girls away well before it started to get dark and the coon...
  8. bruceha2000

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    Any healthy LF (well maybe not Cornish Rocks and the like) can easily fly up to a 2' high platform. In fact they can do it at 2 weeks of age. My VERY large and heavy Black Australorp can hit the 4' high roost from the ground if she wants to. I watched her do it a couple of months ago and she is...
  9. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    I watched a different video on setting the 3 sizes of Conibear. He cautioned with the amount of damage each could do if you tripped it. Not too much for the small one and yeah, major damage if the big one snaps on your arm. I just looked up the legality issue and found...
  10. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Man those Conibears are downright scary. Apparently FAST and humane. If you were cage trapping the Conibear removes the step where you have to shoot the chuck or coon which is appealing. Sure could have used one earlier this spring when the chuck (BEFORE she bore 4 little ones) kept bypassing...
  11. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Really sorry that happened!!!!!! How old/big was the chick? And where was it? I've lost a hen to a fox twice, found only feathers. They were both out in the field behind the barn though one was only about 20' from it. The other was farther out, along the fence. Unlikely a coon. They eat the...
  12. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Curious! So what do they usually do with it once the dairy is in the case, make more global warming by tossing it out in the parking lot? I thought the dairy stuff was just delivered in refrigerated trucks. Found a rat in the trap this morning, no chuck tunnels opened up. Rats are a whole lot...
  13. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    I have to assume that at least some of the tunnels go to burrows, GHs live underground, no? I will have to check and see if any stores sell dry ice. Isn't that an unusual item for a grocery store? If they have it I don't know where they keep it.
  14. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Possibly, I'm targeting the ones that are tunneling into the lower part of the barn. I found some holes in the upper part yesterday and filled them in with rocks. Caught an adult in the trap in the barn alley (unseen by the stupid game cam!) last night that had tunneled out from under the wooden...
  15. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Show them where you put the marshmallows and tell them they are welcome to them if they can fit their entire bodies in the trap Nothing in the trap last night and no tunnels opened. However at some point this morning a big (based on the size of the holes) chuck opened one from under the floor...
  16. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Don't use things cats would want. I hear marshmallows are a favorite of raccoons, I doubt a cat would care.
  17. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Did he say "Here, hold my beer" before he started feeding those coons? Dude is going to be in a world of hurt when one of them gets rabies. Got my aerobic exercise this morning, hiked juvenile chuck #3 to the edge of the property. Game cam showed it at the trap in the barn about 8:20 last...
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  19. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    There is a thought. Do you suppose the smell of a rotting coon would make them leave their tunnels?
  20. bruceha2000

    fighting raccoons

    Update: I have had my sick Black Australorp in the integration coop up on a 3' high support for the last 4 days (which is why I didn't put my recovered broody hen in the box). That is the coop where the coon killed my recovered broody hen, then left. I don't know if it had tried and failed to...
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