Infestation

[NoLandBeyond]

This was going on at my feeder for 3 hours last night according to the trail cam. I have an ATN X-sight 4K night scope which can't get here soon enough. Hope to nail these critters in the next few weeks with my R5.

 

[JohnL57]

They should certainly know better-guess they don't recognize a steel target as a danger sign...

 

[boydwalker]

Do you eat them? Boil the fat off, put in oven with a little barbecue sauce, very tasty.

 

[Bob_O]

Wow, that's going to be awesome!!!

 

[intenseaty22]

I’ve always wanted an authentic Davie Crockett hat!

 

[twells]

I shoot them almost every weekend 37 of them in the last 14 months . My wife feeds the feral cats in our neighborhood and they love the cat food .
​I have security cameras that show the food area and late at night they come up.
​My wife encourges me to shoot them . she went outside to scare one away and he raised up at her so now she says they all have to go. 

 

[Bob_O]

Twells, that's awesome!!! I hope to get my first one tonight.

When you get the green light from the wife, you're golden!!! ;-)

 

[SquirrelWar2]

Wow! I didn't know raccoons would raid bird feeders? ? Yikes!

 

[bigdaves40]

Coons love corn too.had a feeder for deer hanging in a tree. I was in my tree stand 7mm mag in hand and 3 coons came up and started feeding on the corn on the ground, another one climbed down the feeder rope, hung on the side and spun the feeder slinger to get more corn on the ground. Got the one on the feeder and 2 more, forth got away got him a week later.

 

[NoLandBeyond]

"bigdaves40"Coons love corn too.had a feeder for deer hanging in a tree. I was in my tree stand 7mm mag in hand and 3 coons came up and started feeding on the corn on the ground, another one climbed down the feeder rope, hung on the side and spun the feeder slinger to get more corn on the ground. Got the one on the feeder and 2 more, forth got away got him a week later.

So regular deer corn, right? I've read where they like sweet corn too. Was just thinking of getting a bag of deer corn to set a trap for them soon.

 

[jspade]

Me personally, I would shoot the feral cats and feed the coons.

 

[twells]

Then she would shoot me

 

[RidinLou]

At least the feral cats are doing more than their part to reduce the song bird population.

 

[Hugo619]

I say save the songbirds. 

 

[Bob_O]

"Hugo619"I say save the songbirds.

Agreed. 

I don't understand the post above yours. Why would anyone want to reduce the songbird population?

 

[Jasonmc]

Get em! Those guys can be a pain! Had a few destroy my bird feeders and found there way into my chicken coop! (Weak spot in the chicken wire) Ate a couple of hens. I didn't have any night vision stuff but I wired in flood lights. Kept them on 24-7 for a couple of days and those rotten thieves got use to it. The next night I sat in a chair and picked them off as they came to the coop. hadnt had an issue with coons in a long time. Coop is fixed up. There's no way there getting in now!