I have live trapped and disposed of a couple hundred coons in the last three years. Finally got their numbers down to where I don't catch many anymore. Problem was trapping the coons while my hard working vermin patrol was around. 20 plus good farm cats.
I was lucky that while walking out of the TSC store with my new Havahart live trap, I met an old trapper buddy. He asked what I was going to do with the trap ? I told him I was over run with coons. His second question was "what do you intend to use for bait?" I told him the sheet with the trap said to use cat / dog food. He said" no way, all you will catch is your cats". He said to use fresh large marsh mellows, the cats ignore them and coons will fight each other to get to them. He was right, the cats mostly ignore the marsh mellows unless curious, while over 200 coons have given their life for a sweet marsh mellow.
Another qiestion he asked me was " how do you intend to dispose of the coon when you catch it ?" I said I would shoot the coon in the head with the 22 and dump them out. He said, "Ill give you a little tip on that, use 22 short ammo." He said" with a head shot using a 22 short, it will kill the coon, yet not go through the coon's head and blow the bars off the bottom of the trap" He was the voice of experience on both counts , Rerely had a cat in the trap and never tore up the trap shooting the snarling coon.
When you catch your first big coon, you will find out how well your trap is constructed. A big coon is incredibly powerfull and will tear the trip mechanism and sometines the side bars to bits. We have done a lot of reshaping and welding on our traps. The big havahart trap is built of heavier rods and gets less coon damage. We had one of the smaller ones, but the coons destroyed it.
If you catch a mangy one, handle it only with a fork or shovel. The mange bug likes humans too. ;-)
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