Varment raiders

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bandmiller2 posted this 10 December 2015

I should know but a neighbor lost a domestic duck, only the head was chewed off and missing. I know thats the MO of a certin critter as it has happened to me years ago when I raised birds. Frank C. (guess this is a little off topic but I'll shoot the varment with cast)

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Brodie posted this 10 December 2015

Probably a weasel. I would use shot 7 1/2 or #8. Or, a pellet gun.

B.E.Brickey

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onondaga posted this 10 December 2015

http://castbulletassoc.org/view_user.php?id=5654>bandmiller2

Do you have Snapping Turtles? Snapping Turtles around my area of Western New York bite heads off domestic ducks and geese. They come back again and again to finish their kills. The farmers around here hate them, especially on the farms with a creek where ducks and geese lose their heads to snapping turtles.

Gary

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 11 December 2015

Old Coot wrote: Probably a weasel. I would use shot 7 1/2 or #8. Or, a pellet gun. Might-could be a skunk.

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Antietamgw posted this 14 December 2015

'Possum. They will do the same with chickens.

Keep your plowshare and your sword. Know how and when to use them.

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delmarskid1 posted this 15 December 2015

I have a couple of live traps. We never really know till we see the critters. They don't stay live very long.

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Brodie posted this 15 December 2015

Yeah, but how do you bait the trap with a live chicken without it setting the trap off.

B.E.Brickey

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 20 December 2015

Always the hypothetical question about a genuine problem. My pre-retirement occupation often involved nuisance animal control. “Live” bait has never been beneficial in trapping a predator with a taste for any given species. Just a chunk of its flesh has ways been productive.   Geez! The absolutely BEST “bait” for an alligator hunt - has always been the most rotten and revolting chicken carcass avaiable. And in surf-fishing, if live bait isn't productive - often “cut” bait of the bait species often is.

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Westhoff posted this 21 December 2015

Mustafa's answer was kind of interesting- even though I'll probably never have an opportunity or need to trap an alligator here in Western Washington.

However, to reply to the question about baiting the trap with a live chicken, I'm pretty sure the “live” in the term “live trap” refers to the critter being trapped, not to the whatever you use for bait.

Wes

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 21 December 2015

I had “Coot's” question about the live (bait) chicken springing ("setting off") the trap in mind when I posted that comment. An embarrassing mis-understanding about the “rights” of dangerous critters on another thread has made me a bit “gun-shy” about discussing whether dangerous predatory wildlife must be captured alive - or not. I recall the outcome of a sudden sympathetic concern for the protection of alligators along the US Gulf coast several years ago.  Legislation protecting them was written and enforced - until the species quickly propagated to the extent that they were coming out of the canals & bayous and eating people's livestock and pets (and attacking their children). Soon after the tragic reality trumped the (emotional and mis-informed) notion to forbid the killing of alligators - the legislation was essentially repealed.

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RicinYakima posted this 22 December 2015

Kind of like cougars here in the NW, now they are shooting them in school yards and off your back porch.

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 22 December 2015

Thanks for that expansion, Ric. I'm sure there are other examples  (maybe including re-establishment of wolves in the Yellowstone area?)  I don't dare say much more, but when significant numbers of poorly-informed (or propagandized) citizens let themselves be ruled by sheer emotion - at the expense of reason and common sense - this is how most of our national affairs are being influenced - with no light at the end of the tunnel.

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Dirtybore posted this 22 December 2015

Alaska is full of this uninformed federal legislation. Alaska is by far the largest state but it also has the fewest people living in it. So when it comes to federal legislation, the rest of the nation gets to vote and all they ever hear is the environmentalist side of the issue due to available money spent on their propaganda. The residence don't stand a chance against these odds.

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 22 December 2015

heh ... here in farmerville iowa the dnr refused to admit the presence of cougars ... although there have been 3 shot within a mile of my house by my neighbors . i have talked to farmers who have had their horses ripped up and dogs disappeared ... finally a major newscrew filmed one sleeping in a tree in a backyard in des moines, our capitol city ... heh heh ...

if i wuz 20 years younger i would train some trail hounds and have some fun .

not sure the dnr brought them in, they may have just adapted ...

my daughter had a litter of yorkies killed by something that got through a very small crack high in the kennel ... probably a weasel or mink ... loveable fuzzy little weasels ...

ken

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bandmiller2 posted this 23 December 2015

You do what you have to do to protect your livestock and food supply, period. Frank C.

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 30 December 2015

Ken's observation points out a natural occurrence when any species' population is naturally or artificially increased. They commonly “pioneer” and expand their habitat, often conflicting with other pre-existing species in their newly-colonized range. In this day and age of mandatory licensing, “bag-limits", and Game Wardens - it is virtually impossible for a given species to be “hunted to extinction".

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