Racoon calling tips?

I have tried it with my electronic call a couple times without success, to late in the season I think. I've talked to people that say it works very well at the right time, usually starting in February in Iowa.

Just pick up some dog proof raccoon traps and set them up.
Check them out on youtube.

Havahart traps and sardines. They love cat food to.

Dog proof traps with marshmallow for bait.

troy fairweather said:

Havahart traps and sardines. They love cat food too .

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Opossums like both too, so don't be amazed if you also come up with one o' them.
Never heard of them being "called". Lots of them around where I live get trapped.

LD

troy fairweather said:

Havahart traps and sardines. They love cat food to.

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^^^Yep...and you'll also discover if you have any feral cats around too!

One of the best spots I've seen, is along rock walls. You western guys don't really have much of them. I never trapped on my own, just helped a friend and his dad. We got 64 one week on a 220 acre farm. Along creeks would be good to. Opossum are not a problem it's the skunks lol.

Sniper66 said:

The problem with traps is that my friend has lots of cats and would be catching them. Plus possums seem to find the traps well before coons. I'll let you know if the calling works. My goal is to focus more of my hunting energy on varmints and learning the most productive calling methods.

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Use bait that cats won't like. Marshmallows or jelly are my favorites.
I tried walking around yelling here coon. But it didn't work. So I can't help you on that side.

Mimic the sound of a deer feeder throwing corn on the ground...?

Lots of times if I am after something using a trap I seem to catch skunks. Something to keep in mind if you are trapping around a home.

jmorris said:

...,using a trap I seem to catch skunks.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about the skunks. The farmer on the land where I hunt used to put out food for the "barn cats" and one morning when walking out to try to get some deer, encountered a Persian kitty....then I realized it was black with a white stripe down its back and not a kitty, … neighborly and decided not to spray me,....

LD

Dogproof or live trap as mentioned. A coon won't turn down a honey bun and the cats don't want it. If you use a live trap, smash the honey bun into the pan. You may need to add rabbit wire around the back of the trap to keep them from reaching in, depending on the wire the trap was made from. If the trap's getting turned over, you have a trap-wise coon. If using a dogproof, I use the metal anchor driving rod to adj the bait in the trap (don't put a finger in there!). Also, get the cheap cocking tool for the trap; it's hard for one man to set w/o the tool.

The only coon calling I've done or heard of was for treed coons. Squall to get them to look at a light or come out of the tree to fight the dogs. If I were to try to call one up like normal predator hunting I'd probably try a wounded woodpecker, but I have no idea if it'd work.

Good luck.

coons can be called in. the most popular call was always the piliated woodpecker in distress call.

however yu need to be close to where the coon is denned up during the day. barns ,hollow den trees.and sometime they will sleep in big squirrel nests in the top of oak trees..

coons wont come real far to a call or if they do they travel so slow you will get bored and move before they get there.. they kind of amble in not come on a high lope like a yote.

so being close where to they are sleeping is a key..

the dog proof traps are the easiest way to go.

After being set for a couple weeks I finally caught, and shot, a coon this morning in a DP trap. Marshmallows for bait.

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Thanks..

Just yell "please rip apart my garbage can and spread everything out in a 10' circle". That should bring 'em in.

Had one years ago doing just that every other night. Caught him one time doing it, and yelled at him. He looked at me and went right back to doing what he was doing.
OK, screw me, screw you. Went in and got my service gun at the time, a S&W Model 10. Yelled at him again to scram and again he ignored me. OK, shot at the back of his head from about 10'.

He jumped straight up about 2' and took off. I was very disappointed in the performance of our duty ammo. Found him the next morning in the back yard, with a lot of blood around him.

We were in the middle of a rabies outbreak, so picked him up in a heavy duty black plastic contractors bag. Dumped bleach all over the blood, took years for the grass to grow back. lol