tamer/buckshot vs duck killing coon

[plumberroy]

Ok I have calmed down enough to post this with out using bad words  I was at work when the wife called to tell me about a coon that had a duck in the pen. she yell at it threw stuff it just drug the duck in the duck box (Wife just ain't got the heart to shoot something) he was hunkered down and wasn't planning on leaving. it is 35 minute home from work with the wife calling updates. This coon sat there eating my duck like he owned the world untill my feet hit the ground he got nervous and climb up the pine tree across another one and down to the ground. In the mean time I went in the front grabbed my tamer and remington buck on the way out. He got to the ground about the time I got to the coup he was about 30 foot away . he stopped and gave me a "what the hell do you want" look    about 3/10th of a second later I showed him  then walked up and shot him again for good measure  Hope he enjoyed his meal
 my tamer has a plastic shotgun stock and survivor fore arm, varmit duty was one of the reasons for putting it together  it did the job right today
 Roy

[Oldshooter]

Good for you! My wife would not hurt a fly...........until it tries to eat one of her chickens then its "Katy bar the door".  She has dusted off a dog and a few flying adversaries as well!

Sometimes you gotta look at them as a varmit not wildlife on a disney movie!

[Rustyinfla]

  I keep a loaded shotgun just inside the closet door for a time when something bothers my chickens. So far nothing has, Praise the Lord. At least since I penned them up. when I first got them I was going to let them free range. I lost 9 in one night.

[Daman]

I never saw my momma shoot anything besides a deer and she would cry tear she couldn't if I put a dog down for biting or a sick one. But then one day my favorite old deer dog took to killing her chickens and well lets suffice it to say 1 100 grain 243 bullet later and one very angry little lady later, I no longer had a deer hound. Now she apologized and offered to buy me another dog (which I refused), but she flat out told every one of us that hunted our place that the next time we let a dog out that killed her chickens she wasn't just gonna shoot the dog. Needless to say, I don't haul my dogs to mommas no more.

Daman

[Froghunter]

Roy,

What has to be done, has to be done. Last summer I had coons in the sweet corn, I busted one with a load of #2 lead from an Older Sears' Ranger Single Shot 12ga. Mom got upset with the shooting......... so I had to purchase a wire box trap and caught five more before the raids stop. This year it's back to the shotgun and lead shot. The 20 ga. Shorty will be on duty at dusk and the trap at night.

Good Deal and Most Folks wouldn't understand our Dilemma and the anwser!

Froghunter

[LEO]

Some of these replies takes me back to a time many years ago, my Mom also was not the type to shoot or hurt anything other than snakes and then she used a garden hoe.  Mom loves to watch birds and has several bird feeders around the yard even today.  Well I came home one day and my squirrel dog was loose.  I caught him and put him back up and then went in the house.  I commented about the dog getting looese and I couldn't figure out how he had got out.  Well the story came out, a cat had been stalking Mom's birds, she went out and ran it off twice and it came back a third time.  Like I said she wouldn't shoot anything but she had no objection to turning a dog loose that the only thing he liked better than eating and sleeping was killing cats.  Needless to say that solved that cat problem. 

[petemi]

Tall coyotes (wolves), bear, coyotes, fox, coons and skunks are a constant problem here.  Most of our 24 guns are kept loaded, without locks and ready.  We have no little kids in or around the house, and on the rare occasions when we do, They're put in one room and the door locked.  Raccoons and skunks are the most numerous in the warmer months.  The fox and coyotes are around all year.  Weasels, believe it or not kill more chickens than all the others put together.  They easily find a way into the coop when the chickens are in at night.  I've found the best cure for them is a rat trap baited with bloody venison scraps in a shoe box with about a 2.5 - 3 inch square hole cut in the side.  The lid of the box confines the critter so he can't jump away from the trap.  It is very effective.  The Topper .410 and 20 ga. take care of most of the skunks and coons, and the Handis handle the rest.

Pete