Got a coon in my trap cage was aiming to get a fox who’s been snooping around the chicken coop was wondering if I could shoot through the cage ?
by No-Second1487
Got a coon in my trap cage was aiming to get a fox who’s been snooping around the chicken coop was wondering if I could shoot through the cage ?
by No-Second1487
12 Comments
Why kill the raccoon? Are you trying to create an army of tiny enemies? Just let him go
Not without risking damage to the cage and ricochets. My grandpa would take the cage to a body of water, tie a rope and throw it in for a few minutes. Cruel but effective.
Edit: not something I would do personally.
I’d only dispatch the raccoon if he’s habitually raiding your coop, but yeah you can shoot through it. I’d go side to side through that cage to avoid any of the more solid components of the trap. Make sure you’re hitting a berm of some kind in the other side too for safety.
Edit: on second thought, I’d just drop him off at a shelter. Killing shouldn’t be done lightly.
if you’re not eating it, don’t kill it.
what a complete loser.
better luck next life.
From experience, yes. Turn the cage so that there are no mechanisms visible (for me, it’s on its side). I used to stand above (slightly raised tractor bucket) and poke the 22 barrel into the cage. That way if you catch the cage, it’s as little as possible. I never had a shell pass through the animal.
Bro if a basic ass racoon is getting your chickens you need a better coop
I in fact speek from experience of a racoon braking into my at the time shitty coop and killing my chickens
Yeah just stick the barrel in there and shoot. That’s what I do. I usually use a 22 though. AR’s are a bit over kill for raccoons.
I use a shotgun when I catch skunks in my trap seems to not damage the trap
You can take some wire rope and a piece of conduit, form a loop, and then pull the raccoon out by the neck and shoot. Wear leather gloves if possible and realize that raccoons are a great carrier of rabies.
I agree that trapping/killing predators is a temporary solution. Exclusion should be your top focus. I trap out troublesome animals and then install 1/4″ hardware mesh in a foot deep trench around building foundations, stapling it to the bottom boards of the building. Works like a charm.
Trap to kill current problems, strengthen your structures to exclude them in the first place to prevent ongoing issues.
Yes, so long as you don’t mind poking a hole in the mesh. The main thing you want to avoid is the plate and the arms attached to it. 223 is kind of overkill though.
I have a fox problem too. A fox nabbed one of my chickens last week when they were roaming and we haven been keeping them in the run since. I don’t have it in me to cull a fox for wanting to eat but if I caught it could I relocate it?
It’s not going to be easy getting an adult fox into a live trap. I have cage traps, but I wouldn’t shoot into them for fear of damage.