If the vermin is in your attic, how would the City even know how dealt with it? What's next, permits are required for hunting and trapping rats? Sounds like something that New Jersey would do...
What to do with trapped raccoons?
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They don't , if you don't tell anyone about it.
Given the size of the US, and the silliness of a good portent of the population, I wonder if there are any local areas the actually do require permits for hunting and/or trapping Rats? Newark, New Jersey perhaps since PETA was founded and is still there.
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Don't know about that. I would be interested to see a PETA person deal with mice/rats though. What do they do, put up a sign that says "go away,please"?
They use live traps to catch them and then release them elsewhere. Isn't there a Sect in India that worship Rats? They even leave out bowls of Milk for them!!! Yep sure there is one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karni_Mata_Temple
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I used to think they were cute little critters until they cleaned out a litter of my kittens. Now they are shot on sight.
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Aguila Super Colibri 22 ammo, out of a rifle it's as quiet or quieter than a spring piston pellet rifle and has a lot more power.
My Henry lever, holds a handful of them, and they feed perfectly out of it.
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Release them in the city. They'll need the food soon.
The City? I doubt City Folks will eat the things. Plus Towns tend frown on people discharging both pellet guns and firearms in City Limits anyway.
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No I don’t
Are you Mother Nature? And Raccoons are pest animals...
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No, I'm her son
Had a large 'coon in the duck pen last summer, eating eggs, and i managed to close it off. It scaled the back wall looking for an escape route. Shot him in the noggin from 8' with a 92fs, and he dropped hard and didnt move for about 3 minutes, hopped up like nothing happened and scaled the back wall again.
Took a few more rounds to make him dead. Anecdotal for you at best but I wouldn't use a pellet gun on one, unless it was my only option.
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Years ago my college roommate shot one in the head point blank with a Crosman 760 pumped 10 times. Worked just fine in that instance.
Did he use pellets? I brought something similar in the early 90's but sold it to a coworker in the early 2000's, wished I kept it. I couldn't pump ten times, four or five perhaps, but...
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Where I live, rabies is always a concern.
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Yes it was a wadcutter pellet.
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I've never killed a raccoon with a gun. Are they tougher than possums? I've ran over a few and they don't hold up so well. Used to use a .22 to knock them out of the tree, but the dogs actually killed them after they hit ground. Did shoot a possum in the head from about 15' with my p238 the other night. It didn't die from that.
In Ohio, you don't need a license to trap and kill pests on your own property, just have to dispatch them "humanely".
In Ohio, you don't need a license to trap and kill pests on your own property, just have to dispatch them "humanely".
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Suppressed .22 to the head. What else?
I've really thought about getting one for this exact purpose and situation. I'll buy the stamp, of course...
I've really thought about getting one for this exact purpose and situation. I'll buy the stamp, of course...
I have trapped or otherwise dispatched a lot of them over the years in horse barns where they nest in the hay and get into cat food, trash cans etc. and make a horrible mess. They are on par with possum. I'm not a fan of either one growling/hissing at me in a dark haymow. The are about the most unpredictable animal you will encounter as far killing them goes. Some just flop over and die, some seem to be hyped up on PCP and just keep going, it can be a bit disturbing.
A .22 pellet in the right place will kill them as fast as a 9mm jhp but shot placement is not as forgiving. Body shots of any kind don't seem to slow them down much, they will die, just not quickly. I have pretty much settled on shooting them in traps with a .22wmr revolver using CCI ballistic tip loads. The frangible bullet is safer for me if a shot hits the trap, and it does a lot of damage to them. I generally put the first shot in their head, and put a second shot in the boiler room for insurance as I don't like watching them flop around and fighting any longer than necessary.
I wish they would just stay out in the woods where they belong, but this spring and summer they've been after the neighbors chickens and also into everything in the horse barn. In the barn office they open a one way cat door, get into the office, open a cabinet, drag out a plastic bucket with a lid and dump the cat food on the floor for a feast. I think at least half the neighbors chickens are dead as well.
So your doing your neighbors a big favor by deal with the raccoons then.
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