Racoon trapping. Random question.

[Hunting4fun]

I always hear about people putting nails into pvc pipe to catch a racoon where they angle the nails down and the nails catch the racoons hand. Every single time I just laugh. Has anyone here ever seen an actual racoon being caught that way? Just curious.

Before someone pipes up I know Dukes and live catch traps are 100 times better.

[IowaHunter]

Dukes are 100x better. But I would like to see a raccoon impaled on nails.

[merlin]

no

[Smart]

Everybody knows that nail thing only catches blank panthers..

[Quackerbox]

Go for it. What you got to loose?

[MasonCo.]

dukes are 100x better . lol

[Hunting4fun]

Go for it. What you got to loose?

I don't want to try. I have some real traps. I don't need any racoons trapped right now. I am just curious if anyone has ever got a racoon that way. I just can't picture that working.

[Big pig]

I bet it would work. But maybe once in a 100 Times.

[Coon]

I caught one back in the 1970s by drilling a hole into a log and angling nails into the hole. I used a dime in the hole for bait. The coon grabbed the dime and wouldn't open his paw to get it out. I learned this from reading "Where the Red Fern Grows." It worked for me one time. Never tried it again.

[BTLowry]

I caught one back in the 1970s by drilling a hole into a log and angling nails into the hole. I used a dime in the hole for bait. The coon grabbed the dime and wouldn't open his paw to get it out. I learned this from reading "Where the Red Fern Grows." It worked for me one time. Never tried it again.

^^^THIS^^^

The "bait" is the important part. Have to have something they grab and won't let go

Never did it but heard older guys talk about it a lot

[Pullersboy]

I caught one back in the 1970s by drilling a hole into a log and angling nails into the hole. I used a dime in the hole for bait. The coon grabbed the dime and wouldn't open his paw to get it out. I learned this from reading "Where the Red Fern Grows." It worked for me one time. Never tried it again.

I did this because of that book too. I cannot recall what I used for bate though. I did not catch one, but did have site bit of coin flesh on the tip of the nails when I checked my trap.