Once trapped, not twice shy

[Playa]

Set out some Duke’s coon traps last night, caught a pair of coins and let the boys test their shooting skills at 100 & 200 yards. They finally dispatched the little thieves and we went to go retrieve the coon cuffs.

Apparently one of the me has gotten caught with “his hand in the cookie jar” previously because he was missing one leg, just a nub.

[dfkoon]

I let a buddy shoot at a coon once in a duke. Shot the duke. Coon ran off. Had to run after it and dispatch with 9mm. Doesn't always work the way we think it should.

[Playa]

I let a buddy shoot at a coon once in a duke. Shot the duke. Coon ran off. Had to run after it and dispatch with 9mm. Doesn't always work the way we think it should.

Well funny you should mention that. The coon at 200 yards caught a round around the mouth of the trap, which knocked off the retainer cap and set arm. Trap was still in lockdown mode and the round ricocheted off the trap and hit the coon and proved to be fatal, but the trap is a loss

[okrattler]

I've shot two missing a leg clear past the elbow. Actually they were both missing a back leg I think. I know for sure one was. It was also missing an ear. Something ripped it off right up next to the skull. Probably a coyote, possibly another raccoon. Shot another one once that had recently gotten attacked by something. It was probably going to die.

I was wrong. I still had a picture of one. It was missing a front leg.

[BTLowry]

I have a picture posted on this site somewhere of a coon with one foot in a dog proof and the other foot in the other dog proof that I mistakely thought were set far enough apart to prevent such

[Playa]

I have a picture posted on this site somewhere of a coon with one foot in a dog proof and the other foot in the other dog proof that I mistakely thought were set far enough apart to prevent such

I remember that pic, wasn’t it your avatar for a bit?

[BTLowry]

I remember that pic, wasn’t it your avatar for a bit?

Could have been but I don't think so

[bloodtrail18]

I caught one last year with a nub, big nasty one.

[retrieverman]

This one evidently escaped my coon cuff at some point but didn’t escape the bolt.

[okrattler]

I've shot a 3 legged coyote before. My brother also shot one with 3 legs. That goes to show just how tough these animals are. They can't just go to the local veterinarian when things like that happen. I don't know how they survive. Luck has a lot to do with it I'm sure.

[Tex_Cattleman]

When I was a kid, I set a claw trap for a coon that decimated my young chicken flock. Checked it one morning to find a self-amputated leg laying there. Tough critters.

[MooseontheLoose]

Most of our traps are in our protein pens. Sometime last spring/early summer we went to check the traps one day and one of them was completely gone. No sign of the trap, no drag marks, nothing. Just gone.

Caught this guy on his left hand in mid January out of the same pen with the same bait. Wish I knew where that trap is

[pontiac]

Since they are all bandits by nature maybe these are the ones that got caught and punished already.

[panhandlehunter]

I have a picture posted on this site somewhere of a coon with one foot in a dog proof and the other foot in the other dog proof that I mistakely thought were set far enough apart to prevent such

Same thing happened to me last month when I put traps out.