Ok...im having a hard time getting rid of coons... i have bought 3 live traps and have set them out every night for the last 2 weeks. they keep goin into the traps and taking the food out without triggering the trap. So ive waisted about 20 cans of sardines. I even have a game cam pic with the coon sitting outside of the trap eating a sardine.

Ive tried hunting them at night with a spotlight but i can never seem to find any when i go out!

I have one game cam pic with 9 coons under my feeder at one time.

please help

get a peace of wire and tie the can of sardine to the back of the trap......this way they can't pull it out of the trap and have to work at it.... you don't have to open the can of sardines all the way. you can just poke some holes in it

we use conibear traps with great success.

A cage around your scatter plate will keep them from killing your feeder.

better yet 4" pvc on the legs

works great as long as you don't have a platform to fill your feeder from

C-4 and pungee sticks.

They were doing the same thing...a little soft guage wire does the trick!

Put Golden Malrin in your cans of sardines or wet cat food. They won't make it more than 50 yards!

If ya dont have any cats or dogs around i second the conibear traps. You can set em on the trails leading to the feeders or cut a slot in a 5 gallon bucket for the springs with the sardines in the bucket and you will catch every coon around. Unfortunatley you can also kill any dog or cat that comes to the bait. Done alot of trapping in my day and if ya need some more ideas let me know.

480 volt electric fence charger

No really...this weekend i am installing a battery powered fence charger on my feeder.The coons are as big as the hogs.

Volunteer to take some of the forum guys on a predator, coon hunt and I'm sure your problem will go away quickly.

tweek your trap trigger more sensitive

we also set out conibear traps in a 5 gallon bucket. +1 on the cats... We USED to have 4 barn cats. Never thought those jokers ventured that far from the house and barns... Now we have 3 cats.

+3 That is the trick. We did that 2 weeks ago and have caught 8 coons since.

Im just curious, how does this actually help? I have 5- 8 coons hitting all of my feeders, They spun 300# of corn out of one of my feeders in two weeks time.

this Is how i take care of them!


although most lease holder dont agree. They so that they run off deer. that is a croc of B.S.

mini 14 will take care of them, they are like hogs you will never get rid of them, but the more you kill the less will be at the feeders, did you post the pic of the coon outside the trap eating a sardine, if so post the link, if not post the pic, that sounds funny!

I do a lot of trapping up here in the north. The 330's do work wonders on coon, as will a 280.

However there are lots of times I want to avoid incidental trapping of other species in kill traps. For coons I use an egg trap. Try it, you'll like it.

www.theeggtrapcompany.com or some variation thereof.

PM me I got the best way

Makwa, that sounds interesting, but for some reason all I got were little red x's instead of pics when I went to the sight. Do those look anything like these? Welcome to the forum by the way.

http://www.bossbuck.com/products/stands/hogtrap.html

It is the same principal deerfeeder, the difference is the housing. The housing is plastic and works just fine. I use marshmallows and peanut butter for bait. Spread some peanut butter on one end of the marshmallow and stick it to the end of the egg and as soon as rocky sticks his paw in there, snap he is caught.

Rat Poison Block Baits and a wire clothes hanger.

Drill 1/8" holes in the center of the bait blocks.
Open up the clothes hanger.
Slide the bait blocks onto the hanger.
Hang the clothes hanger on your feeder.

*** The bait will either kill them or make them so sick they won't come back.

LOL!!! My brother did this next to his feeder. He nailed a tray high up on a tree and mixed a 7up w/ the fly bait. The next morning he checked it and there was 7 dead coons laying underneath the bait.

Deerfeeder.................try this link:

www.wildlifedamagecontrol.net/​raccoon/​eggtrap.php

The one you showed is not the same but works on a similar principal.

As with kill traps and trying to be species specific when trapping, I prefer not to use poison where I am as I could be killing and wasting other valuable furbearers and birds down the chain. I gather that is not much of a concern in some places.