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Raccoon troubles #4652211
09/18/14 01:22 PM
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These are some of the cagiest coons i have encountered. After catching a few skunks I thought maybe I was wrong about the raccoons, but i put a trail cam up and got a few on camera. I have tried setting traps for circling, new baits, changed areas, they just ignore the whole thing.

I even tried putting a trap in a tipped over trash can and they just ignore that.

Any advice is welcome.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652296
09/18/14 02:49 PM
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If positive setting the location isnt an option, you maybe forced to use a Dog proof style trap or bait the area without cages for a week or so then put the cages back out. If you have only tried sweet baits, you may want to try protein baits and set up off ground in an attempt to discourage felines. What also works from time to time is a covered double door trap. These type of raccoon are profit killers arent they.

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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652308
09/18/14 02:56 PM
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Lets not even mention the profit margins frown

I may try dog proofs. I just Ger worried it may run away with one.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652682
09/18/14 07:39 PM
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Go to a "different" bait. I worked a coon for a week with marshmallows and sardines. Her undoing came in the form of Mc Donalds French fries. Must have been a dumpster diver! crazy

Bones from Popyeyes Fried Chicken work well also.

Last edited by Budfish; 09/18/14 07:40 PM.
Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652743
09/18/14 08:16 PM
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Sometimes apple juice, mountain dew, coke.


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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652828
09/18/14 09:15 PM
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If they have been caught before and turned loose, good luck. Going to have to use something different.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652843
09/18/14 09:24 PM
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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4652864
09/18/14 09:33 PM
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I figure if I haven't caught them using Tomahawks, Wickenkamps, 2-door Havaharts, Comstocks, and plastic traps and have used 6 types

of commercial lures, 7 kinds of dog food, and 8 types of cat food, they probably got run over by a danged old truck. I don't know

about your temperature in Cauliflower but come the end of October here, our raccoons have thrown out all the diet magazines and will

go to great lengths to eat anything and everything and they don't seem to let a little thing like a cage get in their way. I'm sure I

have an unfair advantage but getting ready for our cold winters can turn every coon into an eager eater up here.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: warrior] #4652955
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Originally Posted By: warrior



no conis over 6"

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Paul Winkelmann] #4652963
09/18/14 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted By: Paul Winkelmann
I figure if I haven't caught them using Tomahawks, Wickenkamps, 2-door Havaharts, Comstocks, and plastic traps and have used 6 types

of commercial lures, 7 kinds of dog food, and 8 types of cat food, they probably got run over by a danged old truck. I don't know

about your temperature in Cauliflower but come the end of October here, our raccoons have thrown out all the diet magazines and will

go to great lengths to eat anything and everything and they don't seem to let a little thing like a cage get in their way. I'm sure I

have an unfair advantage but getting ready for our cold winters can turn every coon into an eager eater up here.



I am up north towards the mountains, we do get snow. But I don't want to put her off that long

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4653099
09/19/14 12:54 AM
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Duke 160 6x6 Duke 155 5x5 I can recommend both as well as the Bridger 155 magnum.


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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4653102
09/19/14 01:03 AM
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Why are they there. Are you competing with a major food source like a dumpster, wildlife feeder trash. If so that has to be eliminated or put in your trap. Little debbie oatmeal cookies maybe dipem in jameson's peaches and cream. Chum the outside of your traps and see if they eat that. Move back from where the customer has the problem and try their approach or departure areas to set your traps.
Cover the wire floor with a foot friendly surface like mulch, carpet, cardboard or what ever the surrounding surface is. I really like double doors with Kirk or Jim's walk through trip mechanisms.
Set up some trail cameras on video see their behaviors and time of arrival etc.
Then if all else fails be there at that time and shoot them or jump out with your pocket knife and stab them. Maybe a large frog gig?
Think of the answer not the problem.
I always tell my customers I am going to concede the animal is smarter than me so their won't be any need in pointing that out to me. I am going to get him with persistance and will be here after he is gone...unless they run me off.
I hate these kind of jobs you don't make money but at least you get paid to get educated.


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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4653274
09/19/14 08:18 AM
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I did a job last month where I got 8 coon in 4 days with live trap, then nothing for 3 days.. I set some dp's and picked up 5 more over the next 3 days. I tried to set the Dp in secluded places, so the customer couldn't watch the dispatches.


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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: crossroads] #4653300
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Originally Posted By: crossroads
I did a job last month where I got 8 coon in 4 days with live trap, then nothing for 3 days.. I set some dp's and picked up 5 more over the next 3 days. I tried to set the Dp in secluded places, so the customer couldn't watch the dispatches.


You can use catchpole and transfer them to a live trap and take them away for dispatch. Williams traps work well for such adventures.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: warrior] #4653495
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Originally Posted By: warrior
Duke 160 6x6 Duke 155 5x5 I can recommend both as well as the Bridger 155 magnum.


they aren't making their way onto the roof and I don't feel guilty d about conis on ground.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: ponyboy] #4653496
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Originally Posted By: ponyboy
Originally Posted By: crossroads
I did a job last month where I got 8 coon in 4 days with live trap, then nothing for 3 days.. I set some dp's and picked up 5 more over the next 3 days. I tried to set the Dp in secluded places, so the customer couldn't watch the dispatches.


You can use catchpole and transfer them to a live trap and take them away for dispatch. Williams traps work well for such adventures.


this is how I will be doing it. All dispatches are done via co2

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4653685
09/19/14 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted By: Throw Back
Originally Posted By: warrior
Duke 160 6x6 Duke 155 5x5 I can recommend both as well as the Bridger 155 magnum.


they aren't making their way onto the roof and I don't feel guilty d about conis on ground.


Gotcha, the only way I'll set conis is if it's elevated and completely out of reach and then only for those hard headed coons that give my cages the bird. It gets personal at that point and I slap a coni over the hole in the roof and getter done.


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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4653856
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What are the coon doing that you need to remove them? Tearing up the lawn, grubbing? Sometimes they need something visual in the cage to entice them more. I use white plastic golf balls with the holes in them and press some bacon grease in there. Best to wire them to back or let them dangle from top. Another tip to try is drag a cotton ball soaked in fish oil around the yard in figure 8 with trap placed in the center of the 8.


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Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: coonwacka] #4653992
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Originally Posted By: coonwacka
What are the coon doing that you need to remove them? Tearing up the lawn, grubbing? Sometimes they need something visual in the cage to entice them more. I use white plastic golf balls with the holes in them and press some bacon grease in there. Best to wire them to back or let them dangle from top. Another tip to try is drag a cotton ball soaked in fish oil around the yard in figure 8 with trap placed in the center of the 8.


tearing up the lawn. I tried hanging marshmallows, but no dice.

Re: Raccoon troubles [Re: Throw Back] #4654374
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You could try drift fencing in the area there tearing up the lawn
With a double door walk through cage.



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