Yeah around here I trap the dang coons —- relocate them but they keep coming back —- LOL
I caught one with a front foot missing — around 3-4 weeks later I caught him again (unless there was 2 running around missing the right front foot — needless to say the third strike he was out — off to the old man who thinks they’re a delicacy
When I was younger I ran a short trapline for extra money, back when fur sold at a premium. I met an old gentleman who loved to eat Raccoons & Beavers, he Bar-B-Qued them. Smoked some also.
So I skinned them & kept the fur, then gave the carcasses to him to do his thing. One day I took him a load of carcasses & he had just finished a bunch of Bar-B-Qued & Smoked Raccoon & Beaver. Of course I tried it… it was great too.
I left with a huge plate for later consumption… and consume it I did.
Turns out he sold it in a little B-B-Q joint he ran in his little community… he was a huge hit too.
From then on everytime I made a carcass delivery I left with a plate.
ShyOne
I used to work with a machinist who was a bear and deer hunter. Think a grouchy Grizzly Adams. He was legendary for hunting and torturing apprentices. Didn’t help that my older brother had been an apprentice before I came along and insured ’I was in for it. Anyway Josh(Grizzly Adams) would prepare a feast every winter as hunting settled down. Deer backstrap on homemade cathead biscuits and bear stew until you could not eat another bite.
Wonderful memories and I learned so many things. I hope these things do not die out
RC, I don’t think you understand what was about to happen. You were going to have a bunch of crazy flashlight dudes come looking for you armed with MF05’s and GT94’s.
My daughter encountered raccoon pups for the first time the other night, 3 of them! She thought they would be fun to pet until 2 of the stood side by side and growled at her! One hid between a sliding screen door and the glass walk in door, tail hanging out and standing up. She about laughed herself silly because you could almost see the whole thing… She did pet it’s tail!
Raccoons here just tend to waddle off if disturbed.
I was able to pet a few opossums when I had ’em cornered. And yeah, they stiffened up like dead. Soft, though.
One of the Angry Squirrels here was too busy filling his face on peanuts I was giving him, that I was able to keep foofing his tail over and over. On video, too. I’d foof him, he’d turn and growl at me, try biting me, then immediately turn away and keep eating. Foof his tail again, and again, turn/growl/bite. Over and over.
Raccoons are getting more common in The Netherlands during the last 10 years. Neighboring Germany has a population of 1.5 million, the population started in the thirties when north-american raccoons were released in nazi-Germany for hunting. But in the Netherlands they are sofar limited to less than hundred, and there is a practice of capturing as many as possible because it is not a native species.