Blondie RIP

JNG · Post by **JNG** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:17 pm

Happened two nights ago. The dog went nuts around 0430. I went out with my mag light and Browning 22. The dog ran to the back of the yard, while I checked the coop. The place where I stapled the chicken wire to a post was pulled apart. I was afraid that would happen, so I had a door with a latch on the coop which I closed at night. I guess that either did not latch it good enough or the critter was smarter then I. Red was fine, but no Blondie, feathers were all around. Went to where the dog was and found her half eaten. Dollar it was a coon.
Took Red to my sons place until I come up with plan B. She was a cool bird.

Joe

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:43 pm

I hope you're wearing one of these real soon. Payback time!

SteveR · Post by **SteveR** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:53 pm

I am sorry about the loss. I hope you get the coon soon, probably find more than one when you start to get them. I found 22mag with a 125 luman light taped on the end works real well. Put the crosshairs between the glowing eyes. I have got about 15 coons so far trying to get in my cages.

Steve

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:24 pm

Get that little bastard

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:34 pm

THIS works really well for such events...

People make fun of it because it looks like a mall-ninja gun, but everything on it works WELL, particularly for night-patrol of the farmstead. It's just a regular 10/22 in a Tapco stock, with a Bushnell Holosight, cheapie NCStar pistol laser (in front of the Holosight), and currently sports a Lowe's hardware LED light of around 280 lumens.

I have the same concept set up with a couple leverguns, as well...

Rossi version:

Marlin version:

Either of the leverguns can shoot 50-yard groups like THIS at night in PITCH BLACK conditions...

...PLUS neither one will deafen me like if I took my AR-15 out at night with some fancy can't-afford-it night sight (I use 38 Specials in the 357 Mag Marlin and 45 Colt 'cowboy' level loads in the Rossi). Both leverguns are setup so I could easily see a feral cat at 75-100 yards, AND hit it, if need be.

Here's a thread about the leverguns > Night Scout Leverguns

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:58 pm

AJMD429 wrote:THIS works really well for such events...

People make fun of it because it looks like a mall-ninja gun, but everything on it works WELL, particularly for night-patrol of the farmstead. It's just a regular 10/22 in a Tapco stock, with a Bushnell Holosight, cheapie NCStar pistol laser (in front of the Holosight), and currently sports a Lowe's hardware LED light of around 280 lumens.

I have the same concept set up with a couple leverguns, as well...

Rossi version:

Marlin version:

Either of the leverguns can shoot 50-yard groups like THIS at night in PITCH BLACK conditions...

...PLUS neither one will deafen me like if I took my AR-15 out at night with some fancy can't-afford-it night sight (I use 38 Specials in the 357 Mag Marlin and 45 Colt 'cowboy' level loads in the Rossi). Both leverguns are setup so I could easily see a feral cat at 75-100 yards, AND hit it, if need be.

Here's a thread about the leverguns > Night Scout Leverguns

With a can, I'd like to see/hear what a subsonic .357 180gr wad cutter would do....

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 6:24 pm

Leave a live trap baited then you can use what ever you want

I am sorry for your loss. For those critters that wind up in my live trap get dispatched with a .20 cal pellet rifle or a silenced 22lr.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:55 pm

rjohns94 wrote:Leave a live trap baited then you can use what ever you want I am sorry for your loss. For those critters that wind up in my live trap get dispatched with a .20 cal pellet rifle or a silenced 22lr.

Yep. After sitting out for a couple hours at dusk and getting mosquito-bit, it dawned on me to use a live-trap. That way if the neighbor's cat got trapped, I could just let it go, but if it was the raccoon that was eating our chickens, it would be carried (in the trap) out to the edge of the back field, then shot while still in the trap (22 Short HP usually, from rifle with muzzle just inside trap mesh to not damage trap).

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:38 am

looks like it's time for another un-documented domestic drone strike...NSA operator's are standing by... :O

drone_strike.jpg

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:12 pm

30wcf wrote:looks like it's time for another un-documented domestic drone strike...NSA operator's are standing by... :O
drone_strike.jpg

You're vying for my "incorrigible" title, aren't you??

92&94 · Post by **92&94** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:19 pm

I'm sorry to hear it, those sneaking predators are a real pain.

We had a fox or something a couple years ago, maybe a raccoon, but I've never seen one around here so I'm still leaning towards fox. If there is a next time I'm planning to get up around 3 for a few nights and nail the little bastid, but what we did that time was improve the wire on the front of the coop. Quarter inch hardware cloth with field fence stapled over it.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:21 pm

AJMD429 wrote:
rjohns94 wrote:Leave a live trap baited then you can use what ever you want I am sorry for your loss. For those critters that wind up in my live trap get dispatched with a .20 cal pellet rifle or a silenced 22lr.
Yep. After sitting out for a couple hours at dusk and getting mosquito-bit, it dawned on me to use a live-trap. That way if the neighbor's cat got trapped, I could just let it go, but if it was the raccoon that was eating our chickens, it would be carried (in the trap) out to the edge of the back field, then shot while still in the trap (22 Short HP usually, from rifle with muzzle just inside trap mesh to not damage trap).

Oooh, Doc... Cain't we teach you nuthin'?

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:50 am

BlaineG wrote:
30wcf wrote:looks like it's time for another un-documented domestic drone strike...NSA operator's are standing by... :O
drone_strike.jpg
You're vying for my "incorrigible" title, aren't you?? :shock: :o

i've been sitting at the feet of the "MASTER"... :)

JNG · Post by **JNG** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:14 am

Bought a hav-a-heart the other day. baited it with sardines. 1st night caught a cat. The next night I caught a huge coon.
Loaded a short in my rifle and put one in the head and just to make sure 1 in the ear. Took him to the woods and dumped him. Now his pals can feast.
I'm going to set it up every day and see what I get, though caught the same cat again. Dumb cat.

Joe

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:23 am

JNG wrote:Bought a hav-a-heart the other day. baited it with sardines. 1st night caught a cat. The next night I caught a huge coon.
Loaded a short in my rifle and put one in the head and just to make sure 1 in the ear. Took him to the woods and dumped him. Now his pals can feast.
I'm going to set it up every day and see what I get, though caught the same cat again. Dumb cat.

Joe

Could it be the cat?

JNG · Post by **JNG** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 5:28 pm

Well, I would never say a firm no, but I just don't think a cat would be ale to pull the chicken wire apart. I did use the wire fabric on the bottom of their night coop. Guess I went cheap for the outer part. By the way, when my son started raising chickens his place was over run with coons. He trapped 19 of them in 3 weeks and now he has not seen one in a coon age. (haha humor)

Joe

CaptainFinn · Post by **CaptainFinn** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:00 pm

I haven't lost a chicken in about three months or so--lost six in two weeks back around easter. Killed six possums in six weeks. Oddly enough, my wife exiled three adult cats and four kittens and none of them bother any of our chickens. My fifteen young birds (chicks bought in April) haven't been touched. My five older birds haven't had any trouble since the possum massacree.

rogn · Post by **rogn** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:32 pm

A lot of the time if you have a large old tree withina stones throw, you probably have a den tree. I dont believe the average coon can eat 1/2 chicken so you probably have a sow w/ young--back to the tree! My mother had a lot of trouble with the critters, and found that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were the best bait for her locale. Had one as a pet when I was a kid. This one was an adolescent of about 5-6 pounds and he was strong and very clever. Two traits that made him a PITA. Came from a den tree less than 100 feet from the house.

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