Re: Raccoon home range
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02/09/24 12:54 PM
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randall brannon
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Good Morning!
I’m a new trapper in VA targeting raccoons to help our Turkey populations. I have trapped one “block” of woods pretty heavily and caught 5 coons. I would like to move my traps to a new location within our 1000 acre lease.
How far away should I move? How far will a racoon travel from its den?
Depends on the food source and water ways. I trapped the same Coon on the same river about 3 miles apart.
God please keep they 19 fallen UBB miners out of trouble up there.
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/09/24 03:06 PM
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jeff karsten
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Raccoons have multiple densites varying on time of year and available food sources breeding season etc i'd guess your using dogproofs if so a smear of lure foot and a half or so on a tree or fence post with a foothold 8-10 inches in front will increase your catch Give them a variety
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/09/24 03:10 PM
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OhioBoy
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https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/raccoon-nation-raccoon-fact-sheet/7553/"The size of a raccoon’s home range varies depending on habitat and food supply. In urban areas, its home range generally spans about one mile." And I would consider urban raccoons to have a good food supply. During breeding which is like Dec Jan here they go for miles. Females layout in the tops of trees and let the wind take their breeding scents to blow across the country and males come from miles away and climb up the same tree and wait for their turn to meet the young lady.
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/09/24 04:38 PM
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GREENCOUNTYPETE
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Good Morning!
I’m a new trapper in VA targeting raccoons to help our Turkey populations. I have trapped one “block” of woods pretty heavily and caught 5 coons. I would like to move my traps to a new location within our 1000 acre lease.
How far away should I move? How far will a racoon travel from its den?
go looking for sign , set on sign any where you have sign good den trees may even fill back in close to them dropping kits. watch your food sources I pulled 40 out of about 2 acres but in all reality I was getting most of them in under a 1/4 acre if you think you trapped out a den tree rake some leaves around the base of it and come back in 2-3 weeks to see the base clean again you have more coons in it. how far they range is very dependent of food source if you see sign 200 yards from your last area trap it , fresh tracks after a rain , trap it they need to nearly trip over your traps in many cases range could be 200 yards or 2000+ a yard radius and change a lot from habitat to habitat in the farmland I trap if they have a food source they may not move far from it but they will move in from to repopulate those good den trees and food source from well over a mile. and you can easily trapp out a block of woods and a month or two later it is filling back in with overflow form a neighboring property.
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/09/24 06:49 PM
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jk
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It seems to me that every few weeks a new batch comes through. If they were there before I don't know. If that group just keeps going in one direction and never comes back I don't know but don't think that is the case. But they they do move from one food source to another it seems every week or ten days. Then they appear again. The same ones? I don't know. Good luck and 3 out of 4 traps is great.....jk
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/09/24 07:39 PM
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patrapperbuster
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All depends on the food supply. I trapped trails leading to apartment dumpsters that were on top of a hill above a river. Following those trails led to rock dens on the river hillsides. The dens were all within 300 yards or so from those dumpsters. Then again i have trapped coons between cornfields with a small stream running between them. These streams were well over a mile or more to wooded areas for possible denning sites. Just depends.
Then there is the mating season. The males will travel who knows how far.
Keep griding those coons Krm944
Till that day.....
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/10/24 12:45 AM
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yotetrapper30
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Do you love coons more than Turkey? Why else would you let it go?
Maybe not much reason to now, but when a decent coon was bringing $40 I turned loose every kit I could.
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/10/24 02:07 AM
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/10/24 07:10 AM
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jabNE
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I don’t think it’s very far. They are not like coyotes or cats for sure. Den, food, water, and trails leading to each…you can pretty much draw a circle around it and cover the distances. Along creeks and rivers that may vary I bet but not too much. Jim
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/10/24 08:06 AM
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danny clifton
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I have had hounds run a track a mile and a half.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/10/24 11:01 AM
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danny clifton
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Yes. Run a track a mile and a half before tree. Usually a long race like that ends up in a hole, den tree, old farm machinery or something. Coons knew where they were going. Why competition dogs are hot nosed. They want the coon on a limb for points. Dog strikes on a hot track. Push the coon up the nearest tree. A cold nose dog will start a track several hours old.
Last edited by danny clifton; 02/10/24 11:02 AM.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Raccoon home range
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02/10/24 10:35 PM
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52Carl
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What is the habitat like outside of your 1000 acres? If it is similar, you have your work cut out for you. If you were somehow able to kill every last raccoon on your 1000 acres, raccoons from surrounding properties will fill back in in no time at all. SInce you are not able to trap the entire 1000 acres at once, you will have a problem of raccoons from other spots on your property backfilling they area which you "cleaned out" and moved on. Much of the year, except for the females raising young, raccoons are driven by their stomachs. They will travel as far as it takes to fill it. In that process, wherever he hangs his hat is his home. In other words, the size of their range is dependent on available food sources, which, by the way, vary greatly throughout the year.
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