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12-11-2007, 01:15 AM
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Theres some fricking racoons that keep knocking our garbage cans over in the back yard... I'd really like to just kill them, is there a federal law against this or is it decided by individual city ordinances?
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12-11-2007, 01:25 AM
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You can trap them, poison them, or even buy a pellet gun and take 'em out that way. |
12-11-2007, 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by sobie18  More than likely, Yes.
You can trap them, poison them, or even buy a pellet gun and take 'em out that way. | Hmm... I think I may trap them. I have a small pistol crossbow that I need to sight in that could work now that I think about it
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12-11-2007, 03:06 AM
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12-11-2007, 03:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Armueller2001 Hmm... I think I may trap them. I have a small pistol crossbow that I need to sight in that could work now that I think about it | Now this just sounds like you're enjoying it too much 
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12-11-2007, 03:43 AM
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12-11-2007, 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk | I KNOW!!! I want a silencer so bad...
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12-11-2007, 04:01 AM
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I'm pretty sure you're the most openly trigger happy person on talkbass. Sometimes I wonder that when you wake up in the morning, the first thought that enters your head is, "I wonder what I can shoot today?" 
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12-11-2007, 04:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Armueller2001 Hmm... I think I may trap them. I have a small pistol crossbow that I need to sight in that could work now that I think about it | I've gone through this. Trapping is the most humane and actually easiest (you don't have to wait for them to show up).
BUT.... raccoons are fairly smart creatures and they WILL learn. If you trap them you must take them far away (like 20 miles) before you release them, otherwise they'll be back and you won't trick them into a trap the second time.
Wear heavy gloves. They are nasty customers when trapped.
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12-11-2007, 05:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Western PA | | | From my extensive experience with them, raccoons are pretty hard to kill.
Look into the Aguila Colubri/Super Colubri ammo in .22LR. They are powered by primer only, you'll need to be close and make a great headshot. But it will sound like an airgun out of a rifle (but won't cycle a semiauto).
A .22 Short out of a rifle may be quiet enough out of a rifle if you have the opportunity to try it out first.
And I know I don't have to say this, but be sure of what's behind your masked target!
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12-11-2007, 06:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | | If raccoons can't be tricked by a trap twice why not try fixing the lids on the garbage cans so when knocked over, they don't spill their contents. Then the raccoons will learn to leave your cans alone.
Or you could just shoot the bastages.
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12-11-2007, 07:08 AM
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12-11-2007, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk Attacht a claymore landmine to your bins? That would sort the bighters out! | I'm Mike Money, and I endorse this statement. |
12-11-2007, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by BassChuck I've gone through this. Trapping is the most humane and actually easiest (you don't have to wait for them to show up).
BUT.... raccoons are fairly smart creatures and they WILL learn. If you trap them you must take them far away (like 20 miles) before you release them, otherwise they'll be back and you won't trick them into a trap the second time.
Wear heavy gloves. They are nasty customers when trapped. | Sounds like a lot of effort. 
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12-11-2007, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Armueller-
I'm pretty sure you're the most openly trigger happy person on talkbass. Sometimes I wonder that when you wake up in the morning, the first thought that enters your head is, "I wonder what I can shoot today?" |
I'd be very apt to contend with that title.  But swords, battle axes, longbows, spears and knives don't have triggers. 
WAIT my pellet rifle does... that counts, right?
Now go bust a cap in some racoon ass. If they're anything like the possum and skunk I had to whack, it should be bloody. Bounty, the quicker picker upper, bro. |
12-11-2007, 09:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | | I'm all for shooting problem critters but in my experience, they just keep filling in the ranks. If you kill one or two, more will take their place. You have to eliminate the food source or whatever they're attracted to. We have the same problem with Armadillos here. |
12-11-2007, 09:42 AM
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12-11-2007, 10:18 AM
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12-11-2007, 10:19 AM
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12-11-2007, 10:36 AM
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