A guy at our lease runs them sometimes. He had one loose a leg in the trap. Then sometime later caught the 3-legged coon. That coon did not learn his lesson.
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Originally posted by Paycheck View PostA guy at our lease runs them sometimes. He had one loose a leg in the trap. Then sometime later caught the 3-legged coon. That coon did not learn his lesson.
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My raccoons stay clear after a week or so. I do some damage during that week and they stay away for a couple months. I left traps for a month on a feeder. They quit catching after a few days. I began finding my traps pulled from the ground and emptied. The traps go out when they start climbing feeders again. So yes I think they learn. I don’t have near the problem some of you have with them.
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Originally posted by Dusty Britches View PostIve noticed the same thing, except when I put them out the coons flat disappear.
Some good tips in this thread that I'm going to try. Might even try some body trap sets. Have a friend of a friend that runs these sets and has pretty good luck once they get educated on the paw traps.
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There are times to just get rid of them and the simplest solution I came up with when trapping hogs are some coon bombs. Large marshmallows, open them up, sprinkle in some gopher bait (pellets) and put the two halves back together. Go set them around. I like to keep them away from deer or foxes etc.. by putting them on branches and such in the area. I assure you that your coon problem will diminish rapidly.
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Originally posted by knighttime View PostGot on a lease in Cisco last year and we are slap covered with coons. We've been running Duke's traps pretty heavy and were having really good success rate in the beginning with cat food. As the year has gone on it seems like the rascals have become leery of the trap. This weekend I setup on a feeder that had 5 coons at it most of last week. Put three duke's out with marshmallows and fruit loops, and they checked them out (cell camera caught them lurking) but no catch. So I reset the traps with sardines and tuna the next night, again they lurked around but no catch. Same thing happened on another feeder that had 3 coons at it. Then last night with the traps gone they were back to their usual, raiding our feeders.
Has anyone else had issues with coons becoming privy to what that little trap is going to do to them? I'm wondering if I can break up the silhouette of the trap with something else so that I can peak their curiosity again and get them to reach back into the hole of doom! A lease mate suggested maybe we zip tie them to the tpost of the feeder pen horizontally so that it's a different look for them instead of it being stuck in the ground.
We've trapped with everything from corn, protein, cat food, tuna, sardines, marshmallows, dried bananas, etc.
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Originally posted by gtsticker View Postyou can acid wash your traps and they will look like new. A bath in dawn and hot water and a good rinse. Then wax them. makes them function better. This is what we do with our coyote traps.
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