Guess I need to start carrying a gun when I put up the ch...

Just closed up my bird and the ducks and goose would not go in there house. When I got closer I saw why. There was a raccoon in there house. If I had only had a gun in my hands there would have been one less coon to mess with. As it was caught a opossum last night in the trap and did not just kill one but killed a few of them since this one had young in her pouch

i had a friend of mine went hunting left his gun in the stand while he went and got a snack and came across the biggest buck he had seen that year from that day on he never left his gun and today i came upon about a five foot snake and i didn"t have my 12 gauge or and metal to bash it with we both lived to dual another day

Careful...you shoulda stayed in the car, you were profiling, there was no proof that raccoon had any bad intent being in the bird house...prolly just looking for skittles! We are going to have to revisit these stand your ground laws!

I was deer hunting a few years ago. No luck all day and when I was about 50 yards from my truck that was just around a little hill, I emptied the shells out of my rifle. You guessed it. Walking casually past my camp was a really nice 4X4 Mule deer buck. (10 point eastern count) Shells in my pocket, rifle slung over my shoulder. He stopped, looked at me and trotted into the sunset.

Pappy learned a similar lesson, so he taught us, "Hunt all the way into the woods, and then hunt all the way out of the woods."

I seem to recall someone telling about not being able to shoot a possum on the porch.

I've for the most part respected wildlife and been fair, but one critter I seem to dislike the most is the raccoon, and the weasel is not far behind. I've never hesitated to shoot a raccoon, they are such a darned pest. They have eaten more of my darned pets over the years, I see one when armed, its done.

Rich, you'll like this though, I see this 'chuck coming up the hill everyday, through my corn patch and then he's on the lawn, lately cleaning up fallen apricot fruit, I think I missed him 3x with the .22 sidearm, some directions, most of which he seems to travel I can't shoot given the houses, ok, thats fine, I need some practice and do not want to waste ammo on it, a catch 22! He really is not bothering a darned thing watching him, lots of forage, not dry like last year. Well they do move around and he now resides under the porch and gets irritated when he runs for cover, I can hear him under there when I reset the trap, which is of no use now. I won't use a leg trap, I did that last year and got my target, I just ain' that mean to make an animal suffer like that again, injured and in the high heat, it is a size or 2 big anyway. He has learned how to fool the have a heart trap, bananas, apricots or whatever I place in there now, he avoids it, I hear the doors slam closed, no 'chuck inside! Chipmunk has set it off before too, but he sure is smart. Now another comes along and he comes right out of the dugout so to speak and gets int he umpires face, tail waggin, growlin, they fight for this nice spot under the porch, I will have to hardware cloth it off once I now he's out, can't have him die under there, it would reek. They were fighting outside my window yesterday afternoon, these things are everywhere, and move in fast, I got rid of 7 last year.

If you are looking to catch coon, my vet told me to bait the live trap with the cheap vanilla cookies with LEMON filling, cats and the like don't like lemon but coon do.. beats using cat food or tuna and catching all your neighbors cats.

Yep learned decades ago to always when deer hunting to keep it at the ready because if you do not the deer will be right there in front of you on your walk back to the house or truck. Of course when you keep it ready then you do not see them. LOL. Sort of like the guy who was bow hunting here. He came to the house and said where are the deer. I just pointed to the tree line and sure enough there where 2 deer

Use link_disallowed fly bait and sugered pop but it will also kill cats and dogs.

(quoted from post at 00:09:42 07/21/13) Careful...you shoulda stayed in the car, you were profiling, there was no proof that raccoon had any bad intent being in the bird house...prolly just looking for skittles! We are going to have to revisit these stand your ground laws!

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Poor little coon's mama probably neglected his upbringing and let him smoke dope - it's all her fault :?

A 22 pistol makes a nice pocket gun.H&R 22 with a 4 inch barrel.

And the chickens and ducks and goose and peacock