My .22 broke and i need another way to kill the coons.
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If it is in a trap use an axe handle or something similar. If it is in a tree use a sling shot then use the axe handle.
If you are trapping them for taxidermy use I just put them in a barrel of water, no holes, if hunting them I use a rws pellet gun, 1200 fps, and .177 hole works real nice.
If they are in a trap, just club 'em. When I was a kid, me and General Custer (he was a boy at the time) used to make clubs out of Osage Orange limbs or from second-growth Ash or Hickory (saplings). We would whittle off the fat end (we didn't have much else to do in the summers) and then drill a 3/4" hole into the center. Two holes were drilled through the center hole from side to side and Screws were shoved through and nutted on the far side. We cut the screw shafts off with a hack saw, and then poured the center hole full of lead. The clubs were about four feet long and had enough spring to amplify force. One thwack with that club would put a horse on it's knees....(something I always wanted to try, but Custer was chicken).....I guess you could call that his "First" stand.
Can't get the coon to hold still? Use a forked stick shoved over it's neck. At the end of trapping season, you can cut off the stick end and make a slingshot. Forked sticks are handy to have if you ever catch someone's beagle dog in a trap, and decide to release it. (Sometimes the doggie doesn't understand you are there to help..) Cats always got the thwack stick.
Slingshots were a mandatory accessory when I was a kid. The best missles I ever found for them were punch press slugs that were 1/2 inch in diameter and 1/2 inch thick. An iron works in Northern Kentucky made jail cells and my uncle ran the place. He would bring me those "cutters" by the bucket full.
Oh, the reason for those cross nuts and bolts is that if the lead slug flies out of the end of one of those sticks, it has the mass and the velocity of a .45 ACP Colt. we never kilt anyone when that happened, but we scared ourselves.....thus the set screws.
i use a 458 win mag. works great!
Cars seem to work well, just look on the roads.
I think you better get your .22 fixed.If not,maybe you can use it as a club!
With a .458 mag. Shot a groundhog with one too. the impact lifted the little critters several feet into the air, but it just made a .45 caliber hole on the way in, and another on the way out. They were too thin skinned and weak boned to open up those big pills. The hydrostatic shock, on the other hand, turned the insides into mush.
Maybe you really do not have to kill the raccoon..then you wont need the .22
Inject some lighter fluid in the eye socket put's 'em to sleep also works on skunks to keep them from spraying
I think any animal deserves a certain amount of respect when it comes to dispatching. Don't think for a minute that I'm one of those PETA wackos as I am a hunter, trapper and taxidermist and have taken my share of about every critter with a listed season in my state. I figure if an animal is going to lose it's life for my gain it should be done as humainly as possible. I know if the tables were turned and I were trapped or hunted by a superior species I would hope for as quick and painless death as possible. If in a trap it's hard to beat a .22 shot to the head and I would take the club over drowning or being injected with anything in my eye sockit anytime.
Best to you and yours
i would beat it but try to kill it with one hit and not any more if you need to then hit it twice but do it without hurting the animal alot or the fur
i put old hamburger on my driveway and im in my room with my friend and we're waiting for a coon to go after it. i hope the neighbors dont complain.
i put old hamburger on my driveway and im in my room with my friend and we're waiting for a coon to go after it. i hope the neighbors dont complain.
Cut the top of a 55 gal drum. Bury in in the ground with just an inch sticking up above ground. Toss some cat food, or what is left of you chickens in the buried barrel. Check the next day. When you find the greedy, evil chicken murding fiend, put a piece of ply wood over the top, stick a water hose in the barrel and turn it on (Slow or fast, your choice...) . Or see any of the posting listed above, they should work well...