Bow-hunting raccoons, legal or not?

joeboo said:
Also a good thing to note is that an arrow strike will not immediately kill the animal, as neither will a bullet shot necessarily. If you were to do this and you impaled the raccoon, you'd need to have a good knife and some very heavy duty gloves (raccoons are extremely wild when cornered) to quickly put the animal out of its misery. So in short shooting a small animal with a bow with the possibility of impaling it and pinning it to the ground is a recipe for an up close encounter with a wounded animal. If you aren't prepared for this, don't even think about this option!
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I wouldn't recommend using a knife... Try using another (better placed) bullet.
 
DaveOke said:
I wouldn't recommend using a knife... Try using another (better placed) bullet.
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I said knife cause the conversation was about using a bow lol, a special consideration for small game is that you can pin them to the ground since you're almost always firing down on them and if you don't damage anything important when you do that they can take forever to bleed out. But if you were hunting with a .22 then ya you could forget the knife part. Might not be so inconspicuous in the city though.
 
I've killed small racoons in one shot with a pellet gun before, but god did the mother racoon ever scream (for hours). It wasn't shot, it was just ****** off about the loss of the kids, in the city it would generate phone calls for sure. On the plus side, they never came back and most of them were still alive so it was successful. Really I just wanted to annoy them so they left, but the pellet gun had way more pop than I expected from a no-name import.
 
GreyGhost said:
I've killed small racoons in one shot with a pellet gun before, but god did the mother racoon ever scream (for hours). It wasn't shot, it was just ****** off about the loss of the kids, in the city it would generate phone calls for sure. On the plus side, they never came back and most of them were still alive so it was successful. Really I just wanted to annoy them so they left, but the pellet gun had way more pop than I expected from a no-name import.
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What kind of gun was that?

A friend of a friend shot a racoon with a paintball gun then a pellet gun, the think just shook it off like it was nothing, lol. It came back and dig the trash out, freakin annoying
 
Which ever method you choose... as long as its in the city, u gotta keep it quick and silent... otherwise you'll end up like the asian guy that got arrested for beating up raccoons in his backyard a few weeks ago.

Practice more to get better headshots maybe
 
Another silent option is antifreeze soaked bread, just saying is all...
 
joeboo said:
I said knife cause the conversation was about using a bow lol, a special consideration for small game is that you can pin them to the ground since you're almost always firing down on them and if you don't damage anything important when you do that they can take forever to bleed out. But if you were hunting with a .22 then ya you could forget the knife part. Might not be so inconspicuous in the city though.
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I may or may not have pinned an annoying barking squirrel to a tree while I was attempting to archery ground hunt for deer...

james12lucy said:
Another silent option is antifreeze soaked bread, just saying is all...
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All a good idea until the dog or cat finds a tasty treat...
 
rmemedic said:
I may or may not have pinned an annoying barking squirrel to a tree while I was attempting to archery ground hunt for deer..
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Kinda sucks having to start too many stories about eliminating pest animals with "I may or may not have...." :(
 
Hmmm.........how about a live trap, a larger cardboard box, some pipe and automobile exhaust?

Or, there's a place just north of brace bride called Guhas that keeps/breeds lions, tigers, panthers and cougars. Perhaps they could use some live food, I know they've taken deer that have just been hit on the highway.
 
Male morning piss. If you take the first piss of the day and spread it all around the entry area and throw it in there, you (the larger, more dominant male) have marked it as your territory and they will move on.
 
Originally Posted by james12lucy
Another silent option is antifreeze soaked bread, just saying is all...

All a good idea until the dog or cat finds a tasty treat...

Not sure about dogs but apparently cats find A/F a sweet treat. It knocks out their kidneys and it's a pretty sad death, particularly for a stray that wouldn't get put down properly
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