jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2014 11:13:52 GMT -5
A racoon has been terrorizing my nursery plants in the greenhouse. He is wiley and somehow trap smart. He keeps stealing out of the Havahart trap so I modified a Connibear trap that certainly has no heart. The trigger in the center is to have bait attached to it, but he won't touch it  I touched the trigger with a 2 X 4 to show how it catches  Since he won't take the bait I welded a platform for him to walk on  Set it underwater in his favorite path  I may win this one. |
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Post by fantastic5 on Oct 24, 2014 12:33:09 GMT -5
So far all of our chicken killing raccoons have all fallen for the HF traps baited with a can of cat food. Because my husband loves me, he tells me he takes these 'coons a few miles away to a state forest in our version of a catch and release program. We may be creating a rogue band of trap-smart 'coons that will terrorize the citizens who's properties butt up against the forest. Or my husband may be quietly dispatching the critters. Somethings are best not questioned  I hope you catch the bad 'coon in question and not an unsuspecting wading bird. |
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Oct 24, 2014 12:50:38 GMT -5
good ideal with the trap under the water like that. Got you a Vietnamese trap. I bet you will be showing off a new coon skin hat in the near future.
One night, a few months ago, I seen a coon get one of my neighbors kittens. No joke. There are a bunch of wild cats that live on his back porch and three adult cats were trying to get the kitten back. Coon wouldn't let go and got it into the woods. I heard the adult cats going crazy and I ran over there when I seen it but the coon made it into a tight brush thicket. Poison ivy galore. The cats have little trails going all over in the brush but no way for human to walk through. Poor little kitty.
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Post by mohs on Oct 24, 2014 13:00:26 GMT -5
smarty coon...huh? it be just like me if I visited james to say: o what is that? and then yell: oooucchhiieee mmammaaaaaaaa...!!  |
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Post by Rockoonz on Oct 24, 2014 14:12:20 GMT -5
fantastic5 I hope your suspicions are true and your husband doesn't live release the little striped rats, they can tend to bite the hand that releases them.
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2014 14:28:11 GMT -5
Our orphan raccoon, Little Bit, who comes to visit twice a day, says he's gonna put a bounty on your head James. And Obama, the skunk, says watch your back *L*.....Mel
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2014 17:30:21 GMT -5
Our orphan raccoon, Little Bit, who comes to visit twice a day, says he's gonna put a bounty on your head James. And Obama, the skunk, says watch your back *L*.....Mel I gave that rascal 4 chances w/the Havahart. Unfortunately, "too smart for his own good" may apply in this case. When they walk by a can of cat food something is wrong. who's name did you mention ??  |
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2014 22:15:59 GMT -5
*LOL* Now as Crocodile Dundee would say James, " Now that's a trap!"....Mel
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ash
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Post by ash on Oct 24, 2014 22:34:57 GMT -5
If you don't get him in that killer, rig up a live trap with a chicken cage at the end...he'll go in there...might give the poor chicken heart failure though
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panamark
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Post by panamark on Oct 25, 2014 9:17:19 GMT -5
Hi James,
I don't think the conibear set that way will work. The conibears have to get behind the neck (unless they are lucky enough to rap him on the head hard enough.) Conibears were meant to be a "push through" set (the head&body goes into the square whole) so they do a body squeeze. It could be he steps on the installed pan and gets a body squeeze so we will have to see. But I doubt you will catch this one using the trap as a leghold style. I think you will have to study his routes, etc and find where he makes a consistent mistake. Then you can outsmart him.
Let us know.
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Post by captbob on Oct 25, 2014 9:49:43 GMT -5
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 25, 2014 10:37:54 GMT -5
Hi James, I don't think the conibear set that way will work. The conibears have to get behind the neck (unless they are lucky enough to rap him on the head hard enough.) Conibears were meant to be a "push through" set (the head&body goes into the square whole) so they do a body squeeze. It could be he steps on the installed pan and gets a body squeeze so we will have to see. But I doubt you will catch this one using the trap as a leghold style. I think you will have to study his routes, etc and find where he makes a consistent mistake. Then you can outsmart him. Let us know. I hear you Mark. it is nonconventional setup. It is sitting off the bottom 5 inches on jacks at the very ends to keep the swing from hitting the floor. If he steps in enough to trigger it, maybe it will grab enough flesh to hold him. The added weight of the plate really makes it a hair trigger when laying horizontal, so much so that it had to be set under water to not trigger by it's own weight. If it catches him above the knee or the elbow I would think he would have a hard time pulling his limb out past the joint. Will see. I would not want to be the one that touches that plate. I wondered about this too. I wondered about him dragging the trap off too. Have always had luck w/a marshmallow in a dog proof trap, but this one walks right by them  |
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Post by jamesp on Oct 25, 2014 10:45:49 GMT -5
If you don't get him in that killer, rig up a live trap with a chicken cage at the end...he'll go in there...might give the poor chicken heart failure though It may not get him sore body parts may be in his future, ash. |
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Post by jamesp on Oct 25, 2014 10:46:59 GMT -5
*LOL* Now as Crocodile Dundee would say James, " Now that's a trap!"....Mel Maybe dundee will smile over me.ha |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 15:04:43 GMT -5
Or you gonna have one REALLY pissed off otter!! That trap ain't sh\t for an otter. I know you have more otter knowledge than I. Have you actually seen this specimen? If you get a curlew, they are really good eatin'... I hear. Never tried it. Yet.  |
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Post by jamesp on Oct 26, 2014 16:28:26 GMT -5
Or you gonna have one REALLY pissed off otter!! That trap ain't sh\t for an otter. I know you have more otter knowledge than I. Have you actually seen this specimen? If you get a curlew, they are really good eatin'... I hear. Never tried it. Yet. Just coons Scott. They are everywhere. Tracks verify, behavior too. Same ole song and dance. Eating perched frogs off the edge of the boxes at night. Except this one is smarter. |
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