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Get Off My Lawn
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06/30/19 11:55 AM
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GasGuzzler
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I felt like the guy on Caddy Shack trying to get rid of the groundhogs or whatever after raccoons starting using my back yard as a latrine about a month ago. I've gone to great lengths to make them stay away and had no luck trapping them until last night. I got feral cats and the same juvenile 'possum twice the same day with Underwood potted meat. Raccoons wouldn't try canned corn or wet cat food. Peanut butter on wheat was irresistible I guess. I am in the middle of town and don't have many options besides deterents or trapping but today this little )*#%(*$ is taking a ride in the country.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
[Re: GasGuzzler]
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06/30/19 12:10 PM
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SnakeWrangler
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Needs a trip to the closest water deeper than the trap....ring-tailed rats....
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
[Re: GasGuzzler]
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06/30/19 12:18 PM
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GasGuzzler
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I want my trap back though so it's .22LR after a ride I guess.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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06/30/19 01:01 PM
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I want my trap back though so it's .22LR after a ride I guess.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
[Re: GasGuzzler]
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06/30/19 01:09 PM
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Simple Searcher
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Similar results here. I live in a typical subdivision and had a nasty looking feral cat that thought it was our labs pet cat. I caught coons and possums before I finally trapped that nasty cat.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
[Re: GasGuzzler]
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06/30/19 01:29 PM
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David7912
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Marshmallows are like crack to Raccoons the small size work best
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
[Re: David7912]
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06/30/19 02:06 PM
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Marshmallows are like crack to Raccoons the small size work best I agree that Marshmallows are a great bait, but a GW once told me to use the jumbo size. He said that the coons think they are turkey eggs. I have and have always caught some in the live trap that way. It might help if you were in an area where there are Turkeys.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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06/30/19 02:10 PM
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Superduty
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I want my trap back though so it's .22LR after a ride I guess. Take your .22 barrel and put in the cage, they will,grab it with both hands and bite the end of the barrel. Pull the trigger once they bite and its over. I did this for years.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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06/30/19 02:24 PM
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I want my trap back though so it's .22LR after a ride I guess. Take your .22 barrel and put in the cage, they will,grab it with both hands and bite the end of the barrel. Pull the trigger once they bite and its over. I did this for years. Just be sure the trigger for the trap is not behind them, i shot one like that, .22 bullet exited and hit the trigger for the trap and just about rendered it useless, 1 hour of hammering fixed it though.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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06/30/19 03:34 PM
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Jimbo1
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Save the ride. We have possums and such. I used to cart them down to the lake and release them. Wife has more killer instinct especially since it's her garden they are fooling with, Dispatch and onto a corn bag for the trash. Cats get a ride to the lease!
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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06/30/19 04:21 PM
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MCHUNTER
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Take him at lease 2 miles and a couple water crossing s away! I have regimes 8 in 12 months.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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07/01/19 10:24 AM
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GasGuzzler
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I put peanut butter on one side of a couple marshmallows this time. I'll know in a bit if I got one
EDIT: Nothing trapped this AM but the bait is missing from the smaller trap. When I set it I forgot to remove the safety bail from the trigger. I'll likely have something trapped tomorrow.
Last edited by GasGuzzler; 07/01/19 10:52 AM.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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07/02/19 01:31 AM
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maxscm
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Honey Buns work Good for Raccoons. Tuna works excellent for SKUNKS !!
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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07/02/19 11:30 AM
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GasGuzzler
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Since I caught the one I have seen no piles and trapped nothing. Same morning there was a big male dead in the street a few blocks down. I could tell there was a momma and daddy and at least one baby using my yard at one point. I'm hoping the daddy getting hit by a car and the momma going away at my hand means the babies are gone too.
Marshmallows have yielded no results yet but I put put motion lights and "scary" foil pinwheels too.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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07/04/19 12:11 PM
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Still no piles since last weekend.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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07/04/19 01:26 PM
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pertnear
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Used Marshmallows... Then fed him one of these...
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
[Re: GasGuzzler]
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07/12/19 09:24 AM
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GasGuzzler
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Still nothing trapped and no piles found since I dispensed of this guy and the other got hit by a car.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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07/12/19 09:26 PM
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Be glad that it was not a polecat.
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Re: Get Off My Lawn
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#7556683
07/15/19 03:59 PM
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huntwest
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Vanilla Wafers work great also.
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