DT Fan Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 But I'm going to. Got home from work last night at the regular time, about 12:35 A.M. Look toward the house, something on the electric service, whats that? Looked like a cat. Couldn't figure a cat would climb that, turns out, racoon! I've lived in this house for 30 years now, worked nights a lot and solid for the last 11 years, never seen this before. What to do? If I had a stick, a rock, or anything I'd educate this S.O.B.! Can't find anything in the dark. Then it dawns on me, trusty .20 caliber Sheridan pellet gun just inside the door! Turn the porch light on. Pellet in the barrel ready to go, 8 quick strokes, time for a lesson. He won't show me his head so at about 5 feet, right in the *ss. He, she, or whatever it identifies as bailed off that conduit post-haste, bounced off the concrete and took off for the neighbors yard. Stopped and looked at me for a few seconds then got out of Dodge! I used to kind of live and let live with these guys but their antics at the farm have me loathing them at a level that's hard to describe. 3 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Out in the woods I let them be most of the time. Around the house and barns, they get an education. Its been years since skins were worth anything so people Here quit hunting them unless they are hardcore dog hunters who will tree them and then leave them alone. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWRB Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 That title is Grade A clickbait!! but that's a funny story! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Ouch !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 22 minutes ago, Sledgehammer said: Out in the woods I let them be most of the time. Around the house and barns, they get an education. Its been years since skins were worth anything so people Here quit hunting them unless they are hardcore dog hunters who will tree them and then leave them alone. Pretty much the same around here Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWV Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 When the story started figured it was going to be about knocking the electric service out.😆 Dave 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Coon's purty good eatn. Kina like greasy cat. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reichow7120 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 We got to the point a few years ago we started putting out traps at the edge of some problem fields because they were causing so much damage in the corn fields. We have dealt with over 60 this summer so far. Its a shame that the hides aren't worth anything. I feel wasteful tossing them after the coup de grace but it is what it is. Neighbors have been doing the same thing and we are starting to see a reduction in damage around here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Plow Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Got a ground hog that moved in under the shed that will be getting the same treatment soon! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
766 Man Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Sweet corn will probably be ready in 3 weeks (late) so I anticipate a local surge until they wipe everything out (not staying out by the garden at 2:30 AM to watch and not enough to bother with an electric fence). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Just make coon skin caps and seel them to tourists! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 4 hours ago, 766 Man said: Sweet corn will probably be ready in 3 weeks (late) so I anticipate a local surge until they wipe everything out (not staying out by the garden at 2:30 AM to watch and not enough to bother with an electric fence). 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redturbo Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I have similar story that likely shouldn't be told either. Never seen a racoon in my life other than pictures/tv. Last summer around midnight went to get something from the shop, came back to the house. Heard some noise in the dark & had no idea what is was other than it was coming from the crab apple tree. Went inside to get flash light to look around the ground & saw nothing. Looked up in the trees & saw many sets of eyes! No idea what I was even looking at, got the shot gun & unloaded into tree. 5 thuds later was out shells & finally figured out raccoons made eastern Alberta. One got away thou, never seen one in a year since. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Plow Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Had the same thing with possums in the apple trees.....crap all over the branches on that tree......they just camp out all night.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacAR Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Ya'll need to get a dog they way it sounds to me! I've kept a Mtn. Cur for the last couple years, she doesn't wait on me to come out to catch whatever critters are in the corn, orchard, or chicken house. Of course, a good 22 and a strong light help ensure that if ol' Sam don't get 'em, I will. Mac 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahamfireman Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Coons get moms chickens bad every few years. We live trap them and I take them to swimming lessons. I must be a terrible teacher because I haven't gotten 1 to pass yet! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Keep trying! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zleinenbach Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 My shouldn’t tell story is shooting a snake off this box on side of power line pole… I was too young to realize what a transformer was took snake and stretched across driveway and mom about totaled car in process….now I’m terrified of the legless things. Serves me right I guess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinnesotaFarmall Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Have similar problem with a couple getting into the bird feeders. Set out a couple live traps for the s.o.b.s and let them sit. Second night I caught one. Dogs got the trap tipped over before I could get out to it and he excaped. I looked again and they had caught him. One on each end of him giving him the rack torture. I tried to get him freed from the dogs but I couldn't. Finally they let go and I think he was ten inches loner lol. Amazingly he came too and took off, but hasn't been back since. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihcbill Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 +Here's another one for the PETA fruitcakes.....last summer around 2 AM i heard coons fighting in my old pear tree so i grabbed the .22 that had a 30 round clip and just walked under the tree pointed it toward heaven and emptied the clip......and it just Rained coons -7 in all. payback for crapping in old combines and threshing machines i said. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted August 19, 2022 Author Share Posted August 19, 2022 21 minutes ago, ihcbill said: +Here's another one for the PETA fruitcakes.....last summer around 2 AM i heard coons fighting in my old pear tree so i grabbed the .22 that had a 30 round clip and just walked under the tree pointed it toward heaven and emptied the clip......and it just Rained coons -7 in all. payback for crapping in old combines and threshing machines i said. That's awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ_alabama Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 The last year my German nephew (brother’s son, they all live over there) came and stayed the summer with Mom and Dad, Dad and I were telling nephew about Dad catching coons in live traps at the barn to do away with them in a way that one might. He asked, “what is coon?” I described the look of the guys and mannerisms to a confused expression, until I said they wash their food… “wash bears, we have many wash bears.” So I emailed his dad, my brother, and it turns out in ww2 there was a level two or three general under Hitler that was a Hunter, and heard about coons. So, in some manner of some kind, he gets American coons and turns them loose in a hunting area of woods, expecting the war to go differently than it did, so he could be a coon Hunter after the war. No predators for the guys, they exploded in population. No laws against taking them to be pets there either, so they are a not so uncommon pet. Wash bears. Look em up. I hear the females are way gentler than the males that become mature, but have no experience to know first hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I went camping earlier this summer with a good friend. The trash pandas paid us a visit the first night but we had everything put up well. The second evening for dinner we had some spicy bratwurst cooked over the fire on a tripod grill. These things were hot, too hot for our liking. We had one left over and we decided to leave it out for the pandas to enjoy. The funny thing is the next morning there were raccoon paw prints on the cooler where the drinks were kept. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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