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Post by Foggy on Sept 9, 2017 7:27:14 GMT -6
^ Only thing I don't like is that its not selective. Would be neat if you could put it in a culvert or somewhere the deer and other critters wouldn't get into it. I suppose the coyotes and wolves are too smart for this.
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Post by coop on Sept 9, 2017 7:43:45 GMT -6
If you have that many coons around, why not get the boys trapping them this fall when the fur may have some value? That way, you'd have fewer around next summer during sweet corn time. Get those boys trapping hard every fall and your sweet corn growing will go easier each year. Dad used to put a portable radio in a plastic bag and put it in the sweet corn patch. It was on a timer so he didn't have to turn it off and on every night. Worked very well. Totally agreed! My current set-up isn't very winter friendly. I hope to have that remedied by spring 2018. I've never run a trap line but my boys & I set up cameras on a couple small caves in the limestone out-croppings winter 15-16. We set the cameras to video... The entire month of March was like watching Racoon & Turkey vulture porn. The volume of humping that takes place in those caves is astounding! The first time we watched a video my kids argued whether the Coons were hugging or dancing. Seems like a guy could trap a ton of Coons targeting the caves alone. PS - sorry for hijacking your thread Toolin.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 9, 2017 14:02:39 GMT -6
We are going to do sweet corn next year at the cabin. 15 row about 40 ft long and fence it. Just talked about it today. Rows at 28 inches so i can run a tiller between rows.
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Post by wildfire123 on Sept 9, 2017 14:36:54 GMT -6
Planted sweet corn 3 times one year, sand hill cranes demolished them as they came up.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 9, 2017 17:18:35 GMT -6
Flybait that stuff is nasty. My friend put it out, one unlucky coon died within a foot of the pan.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 9, 2017 18:00:24 GMT -6
My friend soaks marshmallows it it. Calls them blue bombs i think.
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 9, 2017 23:33:31 GMT -6
When I came home from college, I was bored to death trying to figure out what to do next. So I started an asparagus patch that my dad just had to keep parking implements on. I also ran four live traps for about a month and did some damage to the nest raiders. Then I got tired of burying coon, possum, and skunk.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 15, 2017 6:32:13 GMT -6
There is a semi commercial sweet corn operation up against my back corner. My neighbor said the deer have eaten the tassels out of a portion of the field against my land and have also hit another spot pretty hard. He has a LP cannon firing over there full time and rotates the gun between locations. He knows the difference between coon damage and deer. He is an active deer hunter. He also told me we have a decent ten pointer back there and half a dozen smaller bucks.
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