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Posted by: 914fan Mar 4 2006, 02:52 PM

Does anybody know how to trap racoons? A family ripped up my roof and has decided to live rent free in our attic. Basturds! Any sugestions? I hear they are good eatin

Posted by: r_towle Mar 4 2006, 02:56 PM

Watch out for rabid racoons.
Wear gloves at all times.

Rent a have aheart trap..they work the best.
You could also put a one way door on the opening in the roof that they have made. Basically its a cone shaped item made from rabbit hutch 1/4 in wire mesh.

Its shaped like a cone with the small part farthest away from the house.

They can climb out, but not back in.

If and when you trap them in the have a heart trap, in my state it is illegal to transport them...so I just fill a trash can with watre and dunk the whole trap in the water...

Then you get to dig a hole.

Rich

Posted by: campbellcj Mar 4 2006, 02:59 PM

The local animal control should be able to supply traps and/or even set them up for you...not sure how they would respond if you tell 'em you're hunting for dinner or a new coon hat though

A couple years ago a big coon came in our side yard and tried to talk our Akita out of his dinner...the coon lost

Posted by: qa1142 Mar 4 2006, 03:01 PM

I had that a few years back

1) farm and fleet has repelant - read the label, the one for Rabbits, etc worked. Spray attic

2) set traps by garbage cans - peanut butter as bait - they love it and cannot steal easy.

3) take far far away or drownd them

4) put heavy wire over hole once you patch it. go way past where they got in first time.

I took like 6 - mother and mess of younger ones good 30 mile into country - they will piss and grap so cover them with something you can throw away

good luck

Posted by: alpha434 Mar 4 2006, 03:30 PM

When I was growin' up in the mountains, we always just used a length of pcv pipe with an endcap set in the graound at a 30deg angle. Baited with tuna. The varmit would go in and slide to the bottom. And then wouldn't have enough traction to get back out.

I've cought three at a time this way. All in one pipe. Then You cap the pipe. Pull it out of the ground. And pump it full of car exhaust or water. Whatever's handy to kill them quickly and painlessly.

Best of luck.

Posted by: qa1142 Mar 4 2006, 03:31 PM

BTW

Posted by: tat2dphreak Mar 4 2006, 03:40 PM

get a live trap, use sardines for bait in the back of the trap... use gloves to handle when the coon is caught...

Posted by: 914fan Mar 4 2006, 03:44 PM

Thanks for the responses and the welcom. Ive been around for a while, just dont post much. Animal controll said they dont do racoons. Weel look into the traps and the pvc. Great keep em commin.

Posted by: carreraguy Mar 4 2006, 04:10 PM

I had a problem with skunks - used a company called "Critter Control"; they may be in your area. Also caught possoms and raccoons beside the skunks, and I'm in the "city". Counties have different ways of controlling critters depending on the species and how many are out and about, some require euthanasia, some require release. You should call the county to see what their rules are. (BTW, skunks like marshmallow topped with peanut butter and dog kibbles)

Posted by: Flat VW Mar 4 2006, 04:15 PM

Use the humane trap--- then hit in the head with a shovel.

A flat shovel works best.

John

Posted by: tat2dphreak Mar 4 2006, 04:38 PM

I find a .22 works, but everyone likes to be PC...

Posted by: Rrrockhound Mar 4 2006, 06:14 PM

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Mar 4 2006, 05:38 PM)
I find a .22 works, but everyone likes to be PC... :shoot2kill:

I'm a tree-hugger animal lover but I shoot coons, too. Not much else you can do with them when they're destroying your house. relocation just makes 'em somebody else's problem. I live in the country and get tired of surburbanites relocating their problem animals to my front yard.

Posted by: GTPatrick Mar 4 2006, 06:26 PM

Do it right the first and only time. OSOK between the eyes.

Posted by: shaggy Mar 4 2006, 06:29 PM

id say .17HMR
the round was designed for varmint hunting

if you just wanna get em fast id use .22 snake shot
itll do minimal damage if any to your house and its alot harder to miss

if you wanna go all the way a 4-10 shot gun w/ large bird shot thatll take a coon for sure(it would be really funny too)

.22 is the most pratical

.17HMR is most effective

-shaggy

Posted by: pete-stevers Mar 4 2006, 06:33 PM

i am all for using a .22 nice and quiet

Posted by: Rrrockhound Mar 4 2006, 06:44 PM

QUOTE (pete-stevers @ Mar 4 2006, 07:33 PM)
i am all for using a .22 nice and quiet

Takes a few rounds, tho...not exactly humane. Sometimes after we trap them we shoot them in the cage and they just look back at you with those cute little eyes. So we let them go and they waddle off into the woods to die.

Posted by: BarberDave Mar 4 2006, 08:01 PM

At home we had a big bunch in the attic of the garage 8-10. Dad really got pissed of when they pissed and shit all over the back seat of his new Buick. He used a 12 gauge got 4 with one shot. we got done planting them in the garden.cops came and said neighbor 2 houses down reported us. Dad Said " Me!!! it was that Bas-ard
down the street" . Only lie I ever heard the old man tell.
Dave

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Mar 4 2006, 08:41 PM

Set some bait. Peanut butter works great. While they're eating, sneek up behind, grab it by the tail, swing it around your head a few times and throw it as far as you can. They'll never come back.

Posted by: 914fan Mar 4 2006, 09:49 PM

You guys are too much. Swing it around your head. It may never come back But I'll never see my hand either. I'm curently running lights in the attic (couldn't get a strobe) and blasting a raido up there. Banging on the ceiling and waiting for them to wake up and leave. Tomorow I'll patch the roof. We couldn't get a trap for anything larget than a small cat. Frickin city shops. Stupid city animal controll are no help either.
Thanks for the sugestions. I like the pipe one. I'll do that this week to get rid of them permantly. I'll trap them and drop them on the animal controll doorstep. No I don't know how they got out. What do you mean they ate your roof. Oh I sorry Thats not my department

I must admit this has been the funniest thread I have read in a long time. Thank you guys. It numbs the pain.

Posted by: motorhead Mar 4 2006, 10:11 PM

Hav-a-hart trap and a .22 LR. You tap the barrel on the trap and they look right into it. One shot, one kill. Little Friskies work good for bait.

Posted by: kwales Mar 4 2006, 10:17 PM

I usually place plane tickets to Florida in the attic with little bags of peanuts. When they find the tickets and find out there will be free peanuts on the plane, they usually pack and leave pretty quickly. When they do, MOVE OUT!

Ken

Posted by: alpha434 Mar 4 2006, 10:20 PM

QUOTE (914fan @ Mar 4 2006, 07:49 PM)

Thanks for the sugestions. I like the pipe one. I'll do that this week to get rid of them permantly. I'll trap them and drop them on the animal controll doorstep.

WHAT?!?!?

ALPHA HAD A GOOD WHAT?!?!

A GOOD IDEA?!?!?

ALPHA?!?!?

NO WAY!!!

Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Mar 4 2006, 10:23 PM

Had a family of racoon's set up house in the chimney above the fireplace. Went up on the roof and poured household pepper down the chimney. I heard a loud snort & coughing than up they came angry as hell. Almost knocked me off the roof. They have sensitive noses and never came back. Worked for me "Pepper" they didn't like the smell.

Tom

Posted by: Rrrockhound Mar 4 2006, 10:28 PM

My mother had a family of coons in her chimney, so she lit a fire to smoke 'em out. the adults left, but some of the offspring couldn't escape and fell off their ledge down into the flames where they ran around screaming in the fireplace 'til they died. Luckily, my mother had left the glass closed. She doesn't always think things through.

Posted by: Speedster07 Mar 5 2006, 01:12 PM

I like the pipe trick, but a 12 gauge would be more fun.

Posted by: dlo914 Mar 5 2006, 01:56 PM

i remember one time there was a coon tearing up my mom's potted plants, and one night when we came home from dinner my dad went to the back to get the laundry and saw the sucker. Closest thing my dad could grab was a large crowbar (3ft in length). Few minutes later he comes into the house asking for a huge garbage bag, and later buries the coon in the front yard. dead horse.gif hehe beating the coon'

Posted by: sj914 Mar 5 2006, 02:00 PM

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Mar 4 2006, 02:38 PM)
I find a .22 works, but everyone likes to be PC...

.223 might be a bit better. Those things get huge!!

Posted by: shaggy Mar 5 2006, 02:13 PM

.223 might be over kill

.223 is gonna go right through the coon and into your house muzzle velocity of 3400 feet per second, where as .22 is about 1200 fps and .45acp is about 950 fps

AR-15's are really nice though
amazingly accurate

id use .22LR
or
.22 mag if your afraid hes gonna be big(its expensive though and you have to buy a rifle chambered for it, you cant just stick .22mag in a rifle chambered for .22)

.223 is designed to move right through people so imagine what itll do to a coon

-jim

Posted by: GWN7 Mar 5 2006, 02:37 PM

Took 3 out of the farm house this last fall. They had decided the bundles of insulation I had there were perfect for a winter home. A .22 at close range. If you can't chase them out with the noise and lights, borrow a .22 and go up in the attic in the day time. They are nocturnal and not to active during the day. Inside your attic your neibours won't hear the .22..........

Posted by: grantsfo Mar 5 2006, 02:51 PM

My nieghbor was attacked by a racoon in her house. Then a racoon tore up her truck. Now she shoots them. They are very nasty destructive animals sometimes.

Posted by: 914fan Mar 5 2006, 06:01 PM

Was up until 4 in the morning with the raido and loghts and srtobes. The little craps had a party and left. I patched the roof today we need (cedar shake shingles are freekin expensive) and hopefully they will not return. Our neighbors are close (California housing trackts are not largely seperated) and they dont have guns. Thanks for the help.
Nick
I have not caught them yet but when I do

Posted by: shaggy Mar 5 2006, 06:05 PM

congrats!