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When you catch a Racoon or oppossom in a live trap what do you do with it?
Question by four-wheelin. Uploaded on March 12, 2009
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Answers (34)
I would turn them loose.
If they are in season, I'll skin the racoons. Turn the oppossum loose.
Kill the racoon. To say the least we are not to good of friends.
Kill the coon.
heres wat u do u tie a rope to the trap throw the trap in a creek and drown it
Wow your a great representative for hunters. Turn em both loose and go coon hunting if you wanna kill one. Whats the skill involved in shooting em straight outta the trap. Try to give hunters a better name, and be a conservationist so future generations can enjoy our sport.
If its trapping season, I use a .22LR to dispatch of animals in live traps. I gave up skinning and stretching pelts when the market dropped for furs.
Richie thats pretty sick, if I say someone do that to an animal I would probably knock them out.
*saw
i give them about a 30ft head start and then start shooting.
I shoot them if its in season, if its out of season (I have a depredation liscense to do so) i relocate them and notch their ears so I know if I catch them again
'coon i'll shoot when furs prime. I ALWAYS SHOOT POSSOM.(I'LL KILL COON IF THERE DOIN'DAMAGE ANY TIME OF YEAR)
I don't try to "catch" them. I take aim.
I'll haul them off to the other side of the county and turn them out in a National Forest tract. I'm getting soft in my old age...
That’s an easy one!
You stuff the critter in an old suit case or travel bag. Drive down town where all the gang bangers hang out and place it in the middle of the road and setback with a camcorder and patiently wait with camcorder rolling for someone to stop to pick it up!
O’so much fun!!!!
Normaly we are trying to get squrills but if we do i let them go. i dont get many in the city.
Let um get a head start, then shoot, that way its up to your skill to get them. Instead of shooting them in the trap. It gives them a chance to live.
Kill 'em all. They all eat my chickens and ducks. I like to shoot them on the run also. It gives them a chance.
GOOD FOR ALL OF YOU THAT KILL THEM!!! All they do is get into barns, chew up stuff, eat cat food, get into garbage, and KILL chickens! I am glad to here other people shoot them on the run too. So KEEP CATCH'N AND KEEP KILL'N.
Let them go!
And to most of your above, you are sick bastards. You give true sportsmen and sportswomen a bad name!! Most of the answers above make me sick to my stomach. If you can't promote our sport with intelligent opinions and answers, SHUT the #*!% UP!!!!!!!!!!!
no i don't ussauly use live traps except when i have to for fear of accendentl catchs and for your info shooting a deer from a hunderd yards away is alot easeir than getting an animal to put its foot on a trap pan the size of a silver doller and it seems to me that if you catch a coon your ussauly trying got any btter dis batch methods!?
well i do that because i dont wanna waste my bullets, and if u do shoot the coon and plan to skin it there is a hole in it buyers will dok u
richie, you clock it over the head with a stick.
Hey Richie, I will reiterate "SHUT the #*!% up"!!!
no i will reiterate for u one more time kill the damn thing keep on killin woot! woot!
Hey just fyi Mr. Bedrock did you know that one racoon can eat 1 nest of turkey eggs each day for up to eight weeks in the spring! That is 56 nests. Thats alot of turkey. I dont think anyone here kills them just to be evil! Its to help the population of every other animal that they are killing. Think about it this way, if we didnt shoot deer they wuold become over populated then become sick from disease or starve from lack of vegitation. I kill racoons to help turkey, dove, and quail hopefully someday thrive in my neck of the woods.
amen
ive caught plenty and ive just opened the trap and they ran away. always b armed tho. if they r foaming from the mouth u will have to shoot it.
Make a hat.
I would either let it go or shoot it with a .22
if I cought them all the time I would sometimes shoot the coon unless it was terring stuff upthem I would shoot but let the possum go.
No reason to kill them, just drop them off far away where they'll be someone else' problem.
If you want the skin shoot 'em and skin it, if not let 'em go.
Racoons carry the parvo virus, after losing two dogs to parvo i have no sympathy or love for the coon, kill it quick however it suits you.
Those who don't believe in "killing" the coons obviously only "hunt" & don't raise any animals. You might have a different opinion if you woke up many mornings to find dead rabbits and chickens that you raise & feed every day. "let 'em live"? Don't think so!!! Let me guess, you voted for Obama too didn't you. Let's let the terrorist all go free too. Let's slap murderers on the hand and rehab'em.
They are filthy animals that need to be dealt with
when being a nuisances.
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Kill the racoon. To say the least we are not to good of friends.
'coon i'll shoot when furs prime. I ALWAYS SHOOT POSSOM.(I'LL KILL COON IF THERE DOIN'DAMAGE ANY TIME OF YEAR)
That’s an easy one!
You stuff the critter in an old suit case or travel bag. Drive down town where all the gang bangers hang out and place it in the middle of the road and setback with a camcorder and patiently wait with camcorder rolling for someone to stop to pick it up!
O’so much fun!!!!
Kill the coon.
If its trapping season, I use a .22LR to dispatch of animals in live traps. I gave up skinning and stretching pelts when the market dropped for furs.
i give them about a 30ft head start and then start shooting.
I shoot them if its in season, if its out of season (I have a depredation liscense to do so) i relocate them and notch their ears so I know if I catch them again
no i don't ussauly use live traps except when i have to for fear of accendentl catchs and for your info shooting a deer from a hunderd yards away is alot easeir than getting an animal to put its foot on a trap pan the size of a silver doller and it seems to me that if you catch a coon your ussauly trying got any btter dis batch methods!?
Hey just fyi Mr. Bedrock did you know that one racoon can eat 1 nest of turkey eggs each day for up to eight weeks in the spring! That is 56 nests. Thats alot of turkey. I dont think anyone here kills them just to be evil! Its to help the population of every other animal that they are killing. Think about it this way, if we didnt shoot deer they wuold become over populated then become sick from disease or starve from lack of vegitation. I kill racoons to help turkey, dove, and quail hopefully someday thrive in my neck of the woods.
Make a hat.
If they are in season, I'll skin the racoons. Turn the oppossum loose.
heres wat u do u tie a rope to the trap throw the trap in a creek and drown it
I don't try to "catch" them. I take aim.
I'll haul them off to the other side of the county and turn them out in a National Forest tract. I'm getting soft in my old age...
Normaly we are trying to get squrills but if we do i let them go. i dont get many in the city.
Let um get a head start, then shoot, that way its up to your skill to get them. Instead of shooting them in the trap. It gives them a chance to live.
Kill 'em all. They all eat my chickens and ducks. I like to shoot them on the run also. It gives them a chance.
GOOD FOR ALL OF YOU THAT KILL THEM!!! All they do is get into barns, chew up stuff, eat cat food, get into garbage, and KILL chickens! I am glad to here other people shoot them on the run too. So KEEP CATCH'N AND KEEP KILL'N.
well i do that because i dont wanna waste my bullets, and if u do shoot the coon and plan to skin it there is a hole in it buyers will dok u
richie, you clock it over the head with a stick.
no i will reiterate for u one more time kill the damn thing keep on killin woot! woot!
ive caught plenty and ive just opened the trap and they ran away. always b armed tho. if they r foaming from the mouth u will have to shoot it.
I would either let it go or shoot it with a .22
if I cought them all the time I would sometimes shoot the coon unless it was terring stuff upthem I would shoot but let the possum go.
No reason to kill them, just drop them off far away where they'll be someone else' problem.
If you want the skin shoot 'em and skin it, if not let 'em go.
Racoons carry the parvo virus, after losing two dogs to parvo i have no sympathy or love for the coon, kill it quick however it suits you.
Wow your a great representative for hunters. Turn em both loose and go coon hunting if you wanna kill one. Whats the skill involved in shooting em straight outta the trap. Try to give hunters a better name, and be a conservationist so future generations can enjoy our sport.
Richie thats pretty sick, if I say someone do that to an animal I would probably knock them out.
*saw
Let them go!
And to most of your above, you are sick bastards. You give true sportsmen and sportswomen a bad name!! Most of the answers above make me sick to my stomach. If you can't promote our sport with intelligent opinions and answers, SHUT the #*!% UP!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Richie, I will reiterate "SHUT the #*!% up"!!!
amen
Those who don't believe in "killing" the coons obviously only "hunt" & don't raise any animals. You might have a different opinion if you woke up many mornings to find dead rabbits and chickens that you raise & feed every day. "let 'em live"? Don't think so!!! Let me guess, you voted for Obama too didn't you. Let's let the terrorist all go free too. Let's slap murderers on the hand and rehab'em.
They are filthy animals that need to be dealt with
when being a nuisances.
I would turn them loose.
Post an Answer