We have a dog door that goes from our backyard to our laundry room. We feed our dogs in the laundry room and keep the food in a sealed tupperware bin. The last couple nights the bin has been tipped over and the lid pryed loose. On sunday night I heard noises and went to check them out. I opened the door quick and flipped on the light to see a big ass coon staring at me eating dog food. He wasnt scared of me at all which kind of scares me. Last night I barricaded the dog door and put a plate of dog food in the backyard below my second floor deck. I got my bow out, loaded it with a 125 grain wac em broadhead and waited for my motion sensor light to go off. I stayed up till midnight but no coon. Anyone have any ideas on taking care of this problem besides the obvious of blocking off access to the laundry room?

I dont want want raccoon running around my backyard that show no fear of humans.

Dam coogs.....

yeah, us coogs and our racoon problems

Well beer and a .22CB short to the head (the brain is tiny so shoot straight)....don't know about the Racoon problem though.smile

ha ha RvW, the jokes on you, are cougar skulls are way too thick for a .22cb.

But seriously, can a racoon be caught in a live trap? I am open to any ideas.

caught a medium sized raccoon a few years ago in a cage trap. shot it 3 times in the head with .22 cbs. all they did was piss it off. had to go back to my car and retrieve a few .22lr round. glad it was a windy day and no visitors . this was back when i worked for state parks. had about 8 coons rummaging through the dumpters. shot 2 of them and gassed another in a trash can.

then ya got to get rid of it

Thanks SC, I am glad I decided to use broadheads instead of my field points if they are that tough.

Got one once in a camp ground with a framing hammer..did not seem so tough.

I agree with this method, but advocate the use of a 'bigger hammer.'

Good idea.

Fur hats are "in" this winter.

Have-a-heart trap, maybe $60. Works well. We HAD a raccoon problem during the house building project, but bit by bit they went away. Also trapped every neighborhood cat more than once, and the neighbor's bulldog at least a half a dozen times.

We relocated our raccoons.

Personal preference would be the .22 headache to cull the local population, but your local animal shelter will likely have live traps they will let you have for a day or three. Give the little bandit a free trip out to the country.

I know a guy who shot one with his bow on his backporch with a broadhead and the dam thing ran off. Perfect shot, shishkabobbed it with a 75lb bow at 20yds and still didn't pass through Not a good idea to have coon's running around the neighborhood with arrows stuck in em. Especially when your the only guy in the hood with animals on the wall and a house full of huntin stuff. I will trap them from now on.

That is my fear, my hope is that since I will be shooting off my second story deck down at the coon that it will stick it to the ground, but It might not be worth the risk. The animal shelter live traps might be the ticket.

I think I have a couple of carp arrows around.
instant pet raccoon on a leash. 700 to 1000 gns of solid fiberglass. Its going threw


Ok maybe the live trap. Be careful letting it go

I have a carp arrow setup, I dont really think I want raccoon on a rope.

Get a bigger f'n dog, should solve the problem.

I had a similar problem about 3 years ago, only mine was on the back deck and they were trying to chew threw the rubbermaid that the dog food was stored in. Heard it out there, flipped on the porch light and it just looked around and went back to chewing on the bin. Threw open the door and let the 85lb doberman out with me as backup. Coon chose to hit the tree instead of trying to make the fence 20 yds away (good thing cause it wouldn't have made it and that wouldn't have been good for anybody), went up the tree about 50' and hasn't been seen since. It might help that I explained to it that next time it would be dead.

Live trap is probably your best option if your dog won't solve the problem. Be prepared to trap a few of them though, they seldom operate alone. . . . and as said before, be careful when you let them out, they can be mean little bastards ! !