Coons

SASSAS said:
You're right...I was a little harsh in writing this.

It still seemed like (and not having seen the coverage or knowing all the history , I may just be interpreting from what has become the way news is done), one of those. "something bad happens, gets newspeople's attention and now we have a new uber-mance" things. Headline = 'Raccoons - Cute Little Critters or Bin Ladens Bio-weapons!!!!!'

Sometimes these things play out with "We're being overrun with raccoons and they're defecating all over the yards." nobody does something about it and then something bad happens and it finally gets addressed. If the conditions are that bad, it would make me be a little more cautious about inspecting where I'd put a kid down in the backyard (for raccoon droppings, broken glass, bees or whatever).

Sometimes, it's the opposite and something bad happens through a freak set f circumstances, by chance or just an honest mistake and that just doesn't make as good (or as long) a news story without a compelling and sometimes overstated villain or crisis.

Regardless, I really should have phrased my other comments a bit more tactfully.
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No sweat my friend. Didn't mean to give you a hard time. It was one of those situations where everyone knew they were getting more and more infested with racoons, and the city had been actively trying to get the little old ladies to stop ladleling out the Alpo and Gravy Train to these critters, but no one was really paying attention until this happened.

It wasn't until these folks went out into what they thought was their nice, clean, safe backyard with their kid, who popped something in his mouth, that they realized a bunch of raccoons had been using their yard as a toilet, and the baby got real sick.

So then the self-sufficient can-do do-it-yourselfers in town started quietly exterminating the pests, while the PC types tried to trap them all and release them in the woods, whereupon they either ended up as roadkill or right back crapping in the yard the next day! Some things never change.

Norm
 
Man is tolerant and appreciative of wildlife, until the wildlife starts negatively impacting man's life.

Sure can't say I'd blame you for wanting to get rid of the coons, Munk. I've had my share of trouble with them around the farm, myself. A buddy helped me get rid of a couple a few weeks ago, and may help with some more of 'em tonight. We'll see. But I won't be using no stinkin' .22. :D
 
The .22 is a poor choice for anything other than a controled shot under controlled conditions. It was unethical of me- but I had no center fire ready to go. Next time 32/20

Everybody knows Racoons have a historical animosity towards Possums.



munk
 
munk said:
The .22 is a poor choice for anything other than a controled shot under controlled conditions. It was unethical of me- but I had no center fire ready to go. Next time 32/20

Everybody knows Racoons have a historical animosity towards Possums.



munk
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Every year, the Scout "year" kicks off with a potluck at a local park. Every year, the falling sun brings the critters out to check the day's leavins'. Every year the cats and skunks eat in harmony while the racoons snarl, huff, and puff -- but the skunks do the raised-tail dance, and the coons back off. Maybe the skunks Do think they're "black-and-white kitties." Never see possoms.
 
munk - catch a couple of rattlers and dump them in the can...*let* the coons dump them over. This should not only relieve you of the problems coons, but also do it in a way that *you* don't incur the karma...the coons will effectively be committing suicide.
 
Uh, Munk,
Hate to say it, but I saw a raccoon standing at the side of the road while heading home from my buddy's house out in the country this evening. Couldn't be sure, but think the dayumed thing was attempting to hitch a ride, had a little cardboard sign with MONTANA scrawled on it. I swerved to smack him with my pickup truck (figured it was the least I could do) but them little barstids is quick when they get a notion. :D :p :D

Sarge
 
That hitchen Coon reminds me of the time I hunted deer in Southern Calif. I finally saw one, but he was heading to Idaho.



munk
 
just got a call from my son out in texas, he was on his way to a costume party in montana when his pickup broke down, he tried hitchin' a ride, but some inibriated barsteward in a pickup truck swerved & tried to hit him. he put 4 rounds from his .45 into the tailgate but the thang got away clean. :D

y'all watch out for a 6'6" 280lb. raccoon walkin' nawth on the interstate, he needs a ride. his cell phone ran out of juice as we spoke. he still has plenty of ammunition tho.
 
And here I thought all that "ping-ping-ping" racket was from gravel rocks I kicked up............. ;)

Sarge
 
texalp said:
I live in an older part of the city. Coons live in the storm sewers. This little area loses about 4 dogs a year to coons. :confused: Usually the dog chases the coon into a swimming pool; the coon latches onto the dog's mussel and drowns it. Al
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Yup, the coons do this instinctually. When we hunted them on the farm where I grew up, we had to call the dogs back if the coon went in the water. Coons usually climb on the dog's head.

I have seen coons stand on their back legs, like a little grizzly, and take on all comers if they are cornered.
 
munk said:
The .22 is a poor choice for anything other than a controled shot under controlled conditions. It was unethical of me- but I had no center fire ready to go. Next time 32/20
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I came upon a skunk in an open field once and had my S&W 44 magnum with me. I am a fair shot, and he was only about ten feet away, but I was shaking so bad for fear of getting sprayed that I missed that sucker three times. He was lifting his tail as he headed away from me I was running in the opposite direction!

munk said:
Everybody knows Racoons have a historical animosity towards Possums. munk
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Just one of the reasons I shoot (at) 'em. Got one with my .32 Kel Tec, but suspect it was a lucky shot.
 
Eliminated a few varmints over the weekend, including a big one that was raiding the pit silo. He must've weighed over 30 pounds! He took a round or two from a 12 guage, I emptied 11 rounds of .45 at him from point blank range, and then needed a couple good blows from a kukri and big bowie knife before we finally got him stopped! They are not to be underestimated. :cool:
 
Zelubrian. Resident here since the Inter-Galactic Treaty of 2001 (9356 Standard). THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS!
 
munk said:
"Them Coons are destructive animals," John told me, "I don't feel bad at all about shooting them."
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munk
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One can makes me happy,
Two cans make me sad,
Three cans make me awful ga-dam mean, and
Four cans make me mad.
Five cans and I wanna fight,
Six cans and I do,
And, Munk, after this seventh can,
I'm cumming after YOU
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I don't see anything there a UBE or Cherokee Rose can't take care of.



munk
 
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