I’ll try that tonight Roger
Raccoon Box Trap
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You should be able to set the time it records also. Mine all do. Good luck.
About time to start budgeting for batteries. Takes a bunch with 8 cameras but they don't all go out at once.
Well guys this year got off to a bang this summer.lol Our corn is about two weeks out so I set the trap last week. I only got one possum and no signs of a coon until this morning. This was the biggest one yet.
We have an old barn across the road. A lady down the road had 6 chickens and only 3 left now. She lets them free range 24/7 and don’t get their eggs because they are laying everywhere. They are roosting in that barn and Carol seen a big coon over the weekend go in that barn probably after the eggs. I’m hoping this is the one I got.
My trail cam is only taking daytime pics and no nighttime for some reason. I’m going to bring it in this evening and check it out. This things are definitely not old people with big fingers friendly.
We have an old barn across the road. A lady down the road had 6 chickens and only 3 left now. She lets them free range 24/7 and don’t get their eggs because they are laying everywhere. They are roosting in that barn and Carol seen a big coon over the weekend go in that barn probably after the eggs. I’m hoping this is the one I got.
My trail cam is only taking daytime pics and no nighttime for some reason. I’m going to bring it in this evening and check it out. This things are definitely not old people with big fingers friendly.
I use a wood pencil eraser end to do the settings on my game cam's. Had on Moultree shoot craps last year and haven't checked it out as yet. Won't be hunting that much area this year so two cams up on/near the tower stand will work fine.
Farmers shot off a lot of coyotes last winter and the rabbits are everywhere this year. I caught a little guy one evening chewing away on one of Carols flower beds. It was gulping down the flower petals like I eat potato chips.
We had an abundance of rabbits too this spring. Would gather starting about dark under the bird feeders but would eat on flowers along the way. Started stepping out the door slow and quiet like with the .22 and eliminated a bunch of them. Duke, out outside Pyrenees would come a running every time he heard the shot. Don't see many around now.
This is crazy exactly one year later the coons have started again. Carols Indian Corn for fall deco was attacked yesterday morning. She was so mad! lol I set the box trap out again and got a mid size one this morning. They still hit the corn again so I’m sure there’s more than one. I’ve seen as many as five two years ago on my trail cam. My trail cam is not working anymore. Last year the screen turned purple and blue so I can’t program it anymore. It was gifted to me and so I didn’t loose anything. I’ll set the trap out again tonight to get rid of them before spring.
Those dang coons probably sabotaged your trail cam Jim! I bet Carol is mad enough to sit out there in a lawn chair with a 12ga all night over this---LOL! Hope you get those destructive critters.
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I am really temped to buy one of Henry's new Garden Gun. Smooth bore, shoots .22 rim fire shot shells, 30' range and not to destructive but will take out small game, rodents and pests. Not near the range a standard .22 has. Haven't been able to swallow the price of one - yet.
I have two types here. The funnel type works better. The old guy that taught me how to make them said he couldn't hardly keep the sparrows out of it. I put it in the back of the pole shed for storage and I'm still catching them. I can take a picture if you want. Very easy to make.
Please do!
The ones the other guy built were approximately 2' x 2' x 2' with a plywood bottom and entrance end and was covered with 1/4" hardware cloth. You could probably use 3/8 or 1x2" also. The funnel was made of of lighter screen like in a screen window or door and was about 6 or 7 inches in diameter at the entrance and about 1 1/2 inches at the other end and about 10 inches long. On his all sides were screen except the bottom. Once one Sparrow goes in it acts as a decoy and others can't wait to get in. As you can see from the remains in my which isn't even set out they like the things. I used to set the large one that George made out in the yard with no bait and pretty soon they would start trying to get in. He put a trap door in the bottom so you can empty the birds. The larger trap worked better than the one in the photo which is 1' x 1' x 2' long. It's almost like once they look in the funnel they can't turn around. You need to keep an eye on it because other birds like Finches and Wrens will want to see what's going on in there. I should build another one as the English Sparrows drive my Purple Martins nuts. I set in the pole building and shoot them off of the Martin house.
English Sparrows and Starlings are invasive so you can eliminate as many as you want.
You'll have to let us know how it works if you build one.
I think they’re just drawn in by the illusion of the funnel. The ones that George made didn’t even have a cover over the funnel like this one. He just put a perch there for the sparrows and I guess when they look in that funnel, they gotta go in there and find out what what it’s about. I don’t understand it myself, but they sure work.