The girls' first night out ....and look who comes a visitin'!

[melissastraka]

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[toredano]

30-30 is a godsend for them ..lol good shot

We live in the woods and we get our trash picked up every tuesday.. I keep it on my lawnmower card so i can get it to the curb on tuesdays .I just pull it with riding mower to there...
anyway... one night son said something was in the garbage..
sure enough.. 2 ( TWO) raccons ripping thru my bags.. ( I even use contractor bags from home depot)Husband went around the house with AR-15 at the ready( ar15 is chambered in 9 mm tho) they took off..

NOT 1 hour later a possum was in the garbage. Here he goes again..this time a shotgun.. it took off..

They never came after my chickens tho.. really odd..

I dont like either of those pests.


ohh one more.. really odd tho..

Around 3 in the afternoon last summer I seen a racoon on my fenceline.I am thinking how odd is that. He seen me and started hissing or growling at me walking towards me.. I go into the house and get the .22 (husband was overseas and i didnt know where the other bullets where for the other guns). I go back outside and yell at it.. he runs up a tree chattering like mad at me. I aim.. kinda missed him first time. bellyshot.. crapp.. so I reload.. ( boltaction, I didnt find the mag for it)
I look thru the scope and he is pulling on a rope or something, just chattering away. Very odd.. I look to see how i can put him out of his misery fast .He is sitting in a treefork pretty high up. Now I see what he is doing.He has his intestines in his mouth pulling on them.. whatever part he had is now dangling around 6 feet of the tree and he is pulling his own guts out. I was just in awe.. I made sure he went downfast tho .I usualy do not miss with a scoped .22 but he was moving.I felt bad he didnt go down right away. But that was the oddest thing I have ever seen .He sat there and pulled his own guts out of him and chewed on it.

I think maybe he had rabies for beeing out at 3 in the afternon so close to me.. No fear at first. Even my big 17 lbs main coon confronted him and he didnt retreat at first..

Racoons.. i hate them

 

[antlers]

Really glad you got em but as a firearms saftey instructor, please PLEASE get a diferent gun for shooting into the air. A shot gun would have been better here. Even if you hit the coon, a 30-30 has so much more power than shot that the bullet will go right through the coon and go for 1-2 miles. If you miss one, even up to 3 miles. You will not know where it comes down or what it might hit as it comes down.

 

[THough1956]

That is just cruel.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

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I use a 20 gauge with long range shot. Works good for preds that are about 30 feet in the air.

Once you get them on the ground you can dispatch with a handgun.

 

[toredano]

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what is cruel ? shooting the coon?

 

[mmtillman]

Wow ...and in broad daylight too!

That scares me ...cause I dont really worry about coons during the day....

 

[wendid1]

He defiantly had rabies or something similar to be out in the daytime coons just don't do that unless something is wrong with them. Glad you got him.