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Not exactly "hunting"
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11/13/17 10:30 PM
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/13/17 10:47 PM
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I sympathize with you. I gotta start thinning the little rascals out around here too. They show up every night and get their selfies made on the game cameras while gorging themselves on my corn. I don't mind them getting a snack now and then but when they start damaging my feeders and solar panels, it's time to do something.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 07:33 AM
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Good work! Hate those corn theiving, feeder breaking bastages...
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 04:46 PM
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What kind of trap is that? I've not seen one like that before.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 06:18 PM
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I use the same kind. They are Duke Dogproof Traps, or similar design. They work great.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 06:53 PM
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Good work! Hate those corn theiving, feeder breaking bastages... I hate ring tailed rats....
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 08:21 PM
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Wish I could use dog proof traps on Ft Hood.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 08:53 PM
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I hate ring tailed rats.... How do you feel about raccoons?
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/14/17 08:57 PM
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I use the same kind. They are Duke Dogproof Traps, or similar design. They work great. Thanks for the reply. I'm going to check into those. I've got Texas persimmons on my place and man do those trees attract the coons.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/15/17 01:42 AM
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I use the same kind. They are Duke Dogproof Traps, or similar design. They work great. Thanks for the reply. I'm going to check into those. I've got Texas persimmons on my place and man do those trees attract the coons. Set a few dog proof traps around the Texas persimmons, bait them with mini marshmellows, and make sure to set the traps far enough apart that the coons can't reach each other as they try to escape the foot hold. They'll wrap around and around each other and the trap anchors and pull themselves out, even if it costs them a foot in the process. Sounds like you have a target rich environment, so best of luck and let us know how it goes. Another thing they'll do if the traps are too close, is to get one foot in each of two traps!
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/15/17 02:27 AM
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/15/17 03:31 PM
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Same here. If they full up all of the traps set more. A couple weeks ago on one of our properties we had 8 set between 3 feeders and had every trap with a coon in it the next morning.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/15/17 03:43 PM
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I'll have to switch to the mini marshmallows. I've tried peanut butter but that does not work very well.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/15/17 03:56 PM
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I'll have to switch to the mini marshmallows. I've tried peanut butter but that does not work very well. Mini marshmallows and syrup, deer corn, a few pieces of cat food, floating catfish food. All of those have worked well for me.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/15/17 04:04 PM
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I'll have to switch to the mini marshmallows. I've tried peanut butter but that does not work very well. Mini marshmallows and syrup, deer corn, a few pieces of cat food, floating catfish food. All of those have worked well for me. Since I have a bunch of barn cats running around here and buy cat food in 50 lb sacks, I just bait mine with the dry cat food. Has worked well for me.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/26/17 03:13 AM
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Had one that was so fat he couldn't get out of my hog trap. Every other one I've gotten can make it out, not so with fat boy. He did do quite a bit of digging.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/26/17 09:50 PM
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I've caught a few "round 'uns," but never as fat as that one you got! And, yes, they are some digging fools. My live traps of course have a bottom in them, but even with that, they tear the ground up pretty bad directly under and than all around the trap.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/27/17 02:16 AM
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I'm still missing on of my dukes traps. Coon pulled 2 foot of rebar out of wet ground and vanished with it. Keep waiting to hear the chain walking though the woods attached to a peg leg coon lol.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/27/17 09:40 AM
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I've been using those Duke traps for years now and they work quite well. I started with marshmallows and had good success, but once you start getting rain/hot sun and varying conditions like that you end up with a gooey mess in the traps. I switched to cheap cat food and do just as good without the mess. I was feeding a lot of fish, and buying large bags of floating fish food and actually it was the best so far. Not only did the coons love it...it would not absorb water and never a clean up problem.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/27/17 10:58 AM
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Coons live a dangerous life...
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/27/17 02:45 PM
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I've been using those Duke traps for years now and they work quite well. I started with marshmallows and had good success, but once you start getting rain/hot sun and varying conditions like that you end up with a gooey mess in the traps. I switched to cheap cat food and do just as good without the mess. I was feeding a lot of fish, and buying large bags of floating fish food and actually it was the best so far. Not only did the coons love it...it would not absorb water and never a clean up problem. Use a water hose with a high pressure sprayer and the marshmallows will basically liquefy if you run into that again.
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Re: Not exactly "hunting"
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11/27/17 04:57 PM
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