2023 Coon Carnage Count Thread

[Smart]

Happy New Year! 2022 sucked for us due to drought but let's not let a poor deer season stop us from thumping some coon heads.. We had 1081 in 2023 ... Nice to see us break the 4 digit count again. Lets do it again!

Aight folks ...we had 2017 w/ 1781 coons, 2018 w/ 860, 2019 w/ 791, 2020 w/ 1369, 2021 w/ 807 and 2022 w/ 1081 coons meeting their demise. That’s 6,689 confirmed food bills collected!.....

Bring on a bountiful 2023 for helping save those turkey and quail eggs as well as those feeder timers and solar panels..

Most of us already have our traps but in case some folks don't, I'm going to repost the pics I did last year in case somebody wants to jump into the fun. If you don't have any coon cuffs/dogproof traps, here is your motivation to go get a set or two or 10... Gun kills qualify too. Hell let's add TBHer vehicle kills as well because a dead coon is a dead coon....but don't do anything stupid trying to get one with your BF Goodrich.

When you get one or some, post your number and add it to the current running total.

Also if you don't mind, list how you got them... ie, trap type, bait used, or weapon if hunting them ....or of course vehicle kill. Listing will hopefully help some folks get and idea if they are new to it and want to start up.

We'll get after them hot and heavy this March and April and on any of our trips out west on lease work trips this summer using Duke dogproofs corn, protein and/or marshmallows....


Good luck!




















And to start us off.....3 coons killed with protein and Dukes...




3

[Biggs]

I got some 1/16” wire snares to try for bobcats that’ve been eating our chickens and rabbits. Set out three snares and got 2 opossum and 1 coon the first night! Whoop. Did something right. Caught a bobcat in the live trap at the same time so it was a win all around.

That makes the total 4 for 2023 so far. Slow start fellas…


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[BlessedVeteran0305]

Nice stack up them bandits

[Canoe1]

3 removed last weekend of season
Duke Dog Proof
Marshmallow/Vanilla and Corn

2023 Running Total - 7

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[trophy8]

Just 1 for me so far. Walked out on the camp porch to pee at 4 am and there he was. Bad move mr coon. I’ll get after em hot and heavy in March.

This should be #8

[Biggs]

1 more got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Biggest coon have ever caught. Marshmallows with dab of bacon grease on a creek trail.

9 total

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[krt]

1 today in Bridger DP with dry dog food. Total 10.

[elhefe]

5 so far in Montgomery this year. 15

[Brute Killer]

I hardly see tracks around.
Still have them knocked back, apparently.
Killed 29 last year.

[tdwinklr]

Originally Posted by Brute Killer

I hardly see tracks around.
Still have them knocked back, apparently.
Killed 29 last year.

makes you wonder where they all come from. I have a trail that they've made
to my feeder. Gotta get my traps back out and start adding to this list. So frustrating ... obviously they're climbing the poles to the spinner and spinning the corn out with their little mongrel hands.

[Goldensammy]

I saw one dead in the road on 610-S right at Woodway on Wednesday morning. Center lane, too. So add that one to the list.

[tdwinklr]

Start of the year for me, add 2 more from last night.

Corn and Duke's!

Total now is 18 for the list.

[1longshot]

Add two more to the list for a total of 20. Dukes dog proof with marshmallow and prunes. I'll check them in the morning to hopefully add to the total.

[Smart]

For the record… we decided the first year that roadkill sightings didn’t count… unless you were driving the vehicle that thumped Ricky and made him a speed bump ... We have kept it to our own kills (wherever or however that may be) or fellow lease members kill on your property or lease.

Puts us at 19….

[elhefe]

Caught an opossum yesterday in the dukes coon trap. Does that count. Ha

[fullsizeaggie]

Yep time for fresh protein and dukes. Easily got 40 coons last year in south Texas.

Started off with 2 end of January. Will update after this coming weekend.

Total 21

[Aggiebush]

Ready to get after them, heading up next weekend and will start the fight against those dang bandits! I'll add them to the total whenever I catch some.

[1longshot]

New total of 23, had two more in the Dukes traps this morning. Bye bye trash panda.

[elhefe]

1 more this morning and another took off with my trap. Sorry bastage. 24

[trophy8]

2 more last trip


26 total

[buck_wild]

4 in DP traps, 1 with a pistol and 2 in one shot with a 300 WSM

33 total

[SCHC]

Scratch 3 more

36

[dosrobles]

38

Dukes and corn

[Aggiebush]

44 + a crow! Never thought one could set off a Dukes trap, but here one is. lol. One not in the picture, son wanted to get it tanned, very unique coat color and big.



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[Smart]

Dang that is a first for me on the crow!

[BTLowry]

45

Made a set for a bobcat and a big ol boar coon got in it. Only had him by 2 toes in a MB550 with offset jaws.
He was a fighter, scared up, blind in one eye, split ear etc

[trophy8]

46

I sang him the song of my people

[buck_wild]

Add 5 DP, 2 more thermal

53 total

[Rwc]

3 DP, Chistoval

56 Total

Rwc

[1longshot]

Adding two more from this past weekend. Total 58

[SCHC]

1 for the week. Dukes and dry cat food.

59

[Smart]

7 for the weekend ...5 baby makers and two large boars. Should have been 8 but one left his paw behind to let us know he was there. All caught on mini mm's and corn.



66

[1longshot]

Adding 3 more to the list. Surely they'll stop coming, lol. Total 69

[tdwinklr]

Originally Posted by 1longshot

Adding 3 more to the list. Surely they'll stop coming, lol. Total 69

I keep thinking that too ... they're cloning somewhere up the creek.

[SCHC]

One more for the pile.

70

[oldred]

A crow? That's a first. Awesome!!!!!!

[Outback77]

Anybody run them year round? I usually stop once the ants start getting to my bait.

[Smart]

Originally Posted by Outback77

Anybody run them year round? I usually stop once the ants start getting to my bait.

We run them every trip to the lease. Which is usually once a month . We use corn or protein in the summer when the sun starts melting the MMs or ants show up. Out west we really don’t have big issues with ants except the big red ants so it’s more the heat and the mess.

[Homer75]

2 more yesterday. Actually caught them in my chicken coop, little b’s killed one of my chickens.
Total 72

[sasqy]

Originally Posted by Smart

Happy New Year! 2022 sucked for us due to drought but let's not let a poor deer season stop us from thumping some coon heads.. We had 1081 in 2023 ... Nice to see us break the 4 digit count again. Lets do it again!

Aight folks ...we had 2017 w/ 1781 coons, 2018 w/ 860, 2019 w/ 791, 2020 w/ 1369, 2021 w/ 807 and 2022 w/ 1081 coons meeting their demise. That’s 6,689 confirmed food bills collected!.....

Bring on a bountiful 2023 for helping save those turkey and quail eggs as well as those feeder timers and solar panels..

Most of us already have our traps but in case some folks don't, I'm going to repost the pics I did last year in case somebody wants to jump into the fun. If you don't have any coon cuffs/dogproof traps, here is your motivation to go get a set or two or 10... Gun kills qualify too. Hell let's add TBHer vehicle kills as well because a dead coon is a dead coon....but don't do anything stupid trying to get one with your BF Goodrich.

When you get one or some, post your number and add it to the current running total.

Also if you don't mind, list how you got them... ie, trap type, bait used, or weapon if hunting them ....or of course vehicle kill. Listing will hopefully help some folks get and idea if they are new to it and want to start up.

We'll get after them hot and heavy this March and April and on any of our trips out west on lease work trips this summer using Duke dogproofs corn, protein and/or marshmallows....


Good luck!




















And to start us off.....3 coons killed with protein and Dukes...




3

What are the orange strap things ?

[Smart]

Originally Posted by sasqy

What are the orange strap things ?

Trap setting assist tool that we no longer use. More of a PITA to keep up with than they are a convenience to set a trap with.

[trophy8]

Short trip a couple weeks ago. Only 1 killed.

73

[Homer75]

Notch another one for me.

74

[Homer75]

One more. 4 for the year for me.
Total 75

[EHenry1217]

impressive numbers

[Aggiebush]

Heading up to Red River, hope to add a pile to the list this weekend.

[Homer75]

I’m praying that I put a hurting on the coons at the farm and the house. I never really knew how bad they are on turkeys until I read an article on coons and the devastation they do on turkeys nest. My wife who’s not a hunter wouldn’t hesitate to kill a coon if she caught one around her chickens.

[Aggiebush]

3 down last night, Dukes with marshmallows, cat food and some coon jelly. 2 boars and a sow, plus part of a hand from another.
78


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[Aggiebush]

One more today, 4 for the weekend. Here’s a pic of yesterday’s coons.
79


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[1longshot]

Make it 80, caught one Saturday morning.