Damn raccoons

[Firehaus]

Got bow?

Risky for backyard pest control. All you need is a raccoon running onto the neighbors porch with an arrow hanging out...


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[Monky]

Suppressed .300blk. I mean if there were food on the grill we could make it an event


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[TheGrey]

I have cops and retired cops living in the neighborhood on my street; I bet more than one of them has preternatural hearing when it comes to a suppressed shot. I don't want to chance any penalties. I didn't realize a pellet gun brought the same result. Dammit.

I may just have to get live traps or try stevew's way of doing it.

If I lived somewhere a bit more countrified, I'd set up the grill and we'd have a raccoon roundup, like Monky suggested. As it stands, we have some hand-wringing pantywaists making "they live here too!" noises on our Nextdoor site.

[TheGrey]

....I just found out my neighbor's neighbor has been setting out food for the raccoons and feral cats.

[Great-Kazoo]

I have cops and retired cops living in the neighborhood on my street; I bet more than one of them has preternatural hearing when it comes to a suppressed shot. I don't want to chance any penalties. I didn't realize a pellet gun brought the same result. Dammit.

I may just have to get live traps or try stevew's way of doing it.

If I lived somewhere a bit more countrified, I'd set up the grill and we'd have a raccoon roundup, like Monky suggested. As it stands, we have some hand-wringing pantywaists making "they live here too!" noises on our Nextdoor site.

I guarantee they will never hear anything.
Regarding steves way. While it works. To me there's something inhumane about drowning, anything.

....I just found out my neighbor's neighbor has been setting out food for the raccoons and feral cats.

Report them to animal control.

OR trap one, let it loose in their garage. People who feed the local fauna, in urban areas, tend to do other stoopid things. Like leave their garage door open. Open enough one can see they also left their door to the house from garage open too. Usually they're also the same ones with NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH signs littering the window.

[pickenup]

(P.S.: you don't need a small game license to trap, euthanize and bury raccoons or skunks on your own property. It's not legal to live trap and release them elsewhere.)

Need a trap and a 55 gallon barrel?

[rondog]

Live trap.
Barrel of water.
Trash bags.

Problem solved.

[rondog]

Risky for backyard pest control. All you need is a raccoon running onto the neighbors porch with an arrow hanging out...


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Yeah, even with a clean headshot one could still go cartwheeling into the neighbor's yard, or someplace where someone else can see it. Bad juju.

[KevDen2005]

I feel like there's a good Forrest Gump reference here.

[BPTactical]

I feel like there's a good Forrest Gump reference here.

Neva been done befo.....