I check the traps before I hit the stand and keep a little 10/22 or Single Six with me for dispatching. I've got trail cam pics of deer (including a nice buck!) showing up not five minutes after shooting a coon and clearing the trap.

Keep killing them. No matter what you've done around your feeder, your trapping days are not over.

Your trapping days are not over with a varmint cage. I have Eliminator Spinner plates and still catch plenty of coons every year.

We use wire to them to trees or get a little fence post. We put marshmallows and corn in them and work great.

If your hand gets stuck in one try the other one. 2 hands in 2 traps.

So Deerhunter61, you have some dog proof traps for sale?

Lovely Sight right there....Made my Day

Yep. The varmint cage just gives them something better to hold onto. It is nothing to see 3 or 4 of them hanging on the varmint cage at one time. Deerhunter61, you'll eventually lose that soft heart after the money they'll end up costing you. It is also noteworthy that they are a main predator of quail and turkey eggs. Our wildlife biologist has encouraged us to trap as many as possible. Most of the time they will not show up until after dark, so ambushing them from your blind is not going to be very productive.

Absolutely this, and is why I trap them. Corn stealing doesn't really bother me, it's the nest destruction the boils my blood. That, and they can jack up a feeder too.

I saw this (freaking coon Olympics).











Then I did this.

Then this

I'm keeping it G Rated.

Thanks guys! I'm not getting rid of my traps just yet cuz I saw coons on my other feeder from my trail cam pics I pulled this weekend. I'm going back to see how my cage has held up and if it's held up good then I'm just going to put a cage on my second feeder. If they've torn it up I'm going to start trapping again.