I have coon troubles.

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Well my feeders do. My BIL suggested using carpet tack strips tied to the poles will prevent the suckers from climbing up and having a free for all on my feeders.

Any other ideas?
 
Greasing the feeder legs always worked for me. I would put the grease high enough so the hogs wouldn't rub it off. It always made me laugh to see their greasy little hand prints where they slid down the pole.:D
 
Somebody around there must have some good treein coon hounds that will gladly take care of that problem, and you might enjoy the coon hunt too if you never been.
 
A deer feeder "cage" will keep the coons out. Costs anywhere from $15-20 bucks. Install in less than 5 minutes. Google em..lots of them on the market.

P.R.
 
Live-trap em, and then skin-em out,, up here even the 'cheap" one's fetch $5 a piece, enough to buy a drink or two !! and the carcasses cut -up work good for baiting yote-traps,, I like to recycle !!
 
Somebody around there must have some good treein coon hounds that will gladly take care of that problem, and you might enjoy the coon hunt too if you never been.
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We have cages these coons are crafty and hang from the cage and reach in and grab from the bottom. Property owner does not permit traps he want them dead. I have shot 6 off the feeders and a few below the feeders when the deer have cleared out.
 
Where I live, it is illegal to transport ANY NUISANCE ANIMAL to any location!

I think the thought is, if one person is having a problem with certain animals, you cannot just take that "problem" someplace else (well, at least you cannot do it LEGALLY).

Since I go by the book, the 12 guage would come out and they would get shot until my property is not being damaged any more. You have the right to defend your own property in most places.:)

It seems to me, if you have already shot six, you may be on the way to having no more, at least for a while.
 
No, afraid not. The latest game camera pics revealed a small army of the little bandits. I have 9 feeders and each location had at least 5-8 coons at night and about 2-5 during the day.

I have no problem eating coon, but I would be the only one eat them. I was raised to eat what I kill.
 
Hey DM~ is that a BL-22? I just popped a coon about a week ago (with a yellowjacket) with one of those. He's been digging around in my back yard for almost a month, finally caught him!
 
Towboat, those of us who live in the country dont want your problem racoons for us to deal wth either. Thats what the poster meant. Take care of it yourself dont dump it on us.
 
I live in the country too. Bring em to me, I' ll take care of em. Give my dogs something to hunt.
My mom live trapped em. Then turned em loose on her hubbys farm.
 
I believe where i live, the regs say, any trapped coon MUST BE DESTROYED, you cannot turn them loose, that's what they use to say. Anyway, i wouldn't turn one loose, so i haven't check to see if the regs still say that.

They are just waaaay to destructive where i live, to turn one loose!

DM
 
I live in the country too. Bring em to me, I' ll take care of em. Give my dogs something to hunt.
My mom live trapped em. Then turned em loose on her hubbys farm.
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Thats great, the rest of us dont want our property torn up or our gardens destroyed by them.
 
Coon A’ La Delta

1 coon 1 cup celery, chopped
Cayenne pepper, black pepper and 1 medium bell pepper, chopped
salt to taste flour for gravy
3 cloves garlic, chopped shortening for gravy and coon
1 large onion, chopped 6 medium potatoes

After coon has been dressed properly, soak for 1 hour in mild water-vinegar solution; drain. Cut up or cook whole with salt and pepper covered with water. Add cayenne pepper, garlic, onion, celery and bell pepper and par boil until partially tender. Remove from heat and drain. Brown coon in small amount of shortening then place in roasting pan. Make thin brown gravy; season as desired. Pour over coon and place peeled sweet potatoes around and bake until they are done at 350 degrees.

The Board of Levee Commissioners For The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Clarksdale, Mississippi
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page 35, http://www.wildlifemiss.org/recipes/pdf/recipes.pdf
 
One could argue that baiting is controversial, even illegal in some states... If you are going to try to bring game animals into a specific area by baiting, and legal where you hunt, get used to the idea that non-target animals are going to benefit as well as the targets
 
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