Mt Dew will kill coons

LOL Tarot - it's not a tempting treat, its NASTY and smells like something dead.

It's illegal none the less. Illegal things best not be recomended on a public forum. You'll get your butt busted.

I caught a coon last nite! Thanks for all the excellent advice.

Thank you all for the 4 pages of good information. with all this good info the varmitts dont stand a chance

Add one more small coon to the list this morning

found another one this morning all spralled out dead not three feet from the pan

there are chickens and guineas running around the pan for about a week now and none have shown up dead. Im not saying it will not kill them but it doesnt seem to draw them eather.

Yvonne and our boy are still having to deal with the after affects of a mishap with some bugspray that occurred over 40 years ago! Our boy feels somewhat neglected at times since I dont share his interest in sporting events, all due to a bugspray incident from years ago. I was about 15 years old, living on my grandpas farm about 12 miles from town. One afternoon one of the local crop spray airplanes had a terrible crash. The pilot although uninjured from the crash was trapped inside the plane. The bug spray that he was carrying had sprung a leak and it got all over him, soaked through his clothing and enough was absorbed through his skin to be fatal. It left his widow in somewhat of a bad spot, raising thier 2 young children on her own, no life insurance, and the farm to take care of. Now what does this have to do with my boy not being able to share time with me involving sports today? Heres the connection. I was just developing an interest in sports at that time and had arranged for transportation to and from practice with the local minister. Some how or another while this minister was consoling the widow, helping out around the place with chores and the like, he took his work a bit too seriously and she found herself with yet another child to raise. To say the least this created quite a stir among the church members and this fine fellow had to leave the country in search of a new flock to minister to. Without a ride to ball practice, I lost all interest in sports and my boy has nobody to get all goofy with during the playoffs. Poor kid is missing out on his childhood today all over some bugspray 40 years ago!

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one more coon last night

thats 7 coon and one possum all together

Grandparents drown the coons and nutria they catch. Just drop the whole trap into the pond for a day or so, even if the top of the trap is sticking out an inch or so, they can only dog paddle or hang on the sides so long. Hmmm come to think of it, the poison sounds a bit more humane since it's faster!

My unlce catches coons out at the orchard where there's no pond, and he electocutes them. Fairly quick death, smells like heck.

didnt read all the posts.

so forgive me if someone has already pointed this out

The topic of this thread is misleading "Mt Dew will kill coons" then as an afterthought you put poison in the equation.

SO now I think I will start a thread that is titled

Snickers bars will kill Grizzly Bears.............(click to the post and then youll see)

If you just put a stick of tnt in it

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I bet it would work alot better than the TNT by itself. we dont have a grizzly problem here but i bet it would work on the coons just as good

LOl I agree.

Best poison out there is timic they dont call it "ol three step for nothing"

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best way to dispose of critters in a live trap is just dip it in a barrel of water or sit in a pond creek etc. I prefer not to send lil 22 bullets ricochetting off the wire into my leg.

I often set up leg hold traps on a cable with a one way stop. The other end in the water. They will drown themselves

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Hey...put the trap and all, right on the barbecue.

One of my neighbors has had a real problem with racoons this summer. She has been trapping and relocating to a river, but we have been thinking about learning how to clean, butcher and prepare. I assume that racoons are edible. Any advice?

It can be kind of hard when trapping. Many states, counties, etc... have laws that say you can't let a trapped animal go any more than a mile or two from where you trapped. That just means putting the animal right back into its own territory and setting up the buffet. Coons can be wretched things too!!

PS- I have to go check my snickers bar. BRB.

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Regardless, using poisons in a wrong way is just - wrong. There is no other way to look at that, and you will always be wrong on that point. You set yourself up for fines, causing damage, and having more & more govt control over things as people thumb their nose at the current set of rules.

Shotgun/ rifle; good dog; traps; electric fence set low to the ground were/ are all good coon control methods farmers use(d) to control these pests.

As well as some poisons, if one follows the label/ laws. The days of using poisons are on the way out tho. Just how it is.

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I dont agree with you a lot Paul but I agree here poisens are just to unsafe as they can kill anything with small kids and lots of critters at my place I would never consider using any type of poisen I had lot of problems with coons eating my poultry the half grown ones were climbing up and inbetween the eaves in the poultry house and killed over 20 I tried covering the holes but could not drive a nail in the oak at that angle and so stuffed the wholes with feed bags, the coons just pulled them out then they started eating my watermelons and boy do I love melons I got a 12gauge shot gun and killed 7 in one night just got up in the middle of the night a few times,while DW spotted them I let em have it. That is all it takes if you shoot enough of em you will not have any problems.

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