Death to all Raccoons

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I PASSED OUT on a picnic table WTH my leg hanging over the side DRUNKIN BASTARD TRIED To go to town on my leg I didn't get the 5 finger discount I was to shy & got in the wind

Fixed it for ya

 

[Certaindeaf]

I've got a few racoon stories.
Once in Big Trees state park in California me and my buddies saw a passel of raccoons trying to get a baby left to itself in an automatic swing just on the edge of their firelight. There were about 12 of them and when we ran them off they were pretty snotty about it and left with great reluctance.
Well, we were heavily armed so nonchalantly drove/followed them down a big wide path and when they were in a safe spot murdered them all. Every single one.

 

[The B]

I read that some idiot brought them to the NW in the '30s for commercial fur farming
a couple breading pair got out and now they are invasive rodents in Oregon and Washington
haven't seen any in our area yet

i dont know about how they were introduced into the PNW - im sure the wikipedia article contains that info - but i do know you are correct ... they are invasive literally everywhere in the world except south america iirc

 

[rjmt]

i dont know about how they were introduced into the PNW - im sure the wikipedia article contains that info - but i do know you are correct ... they are invasive literally everywhere in the world except south america iirc

Washington state has a web page on them

Nutria - Invasive Species Council

Scientific name: Myocastor coypu What Is It? Nutria is a medium sized rodent that lives in freshwater environments. It is native to South America. A nutria can grow up to 40 inches from its nose to the tip of its round, rate-like tail. It weighs an average of 12 pounds, although some may reach...

invasivespecies.wa.gov

 

[rjmt]

Washington state has a web page on them

Nutria - Invasive Species Council

Scientific name: Myocastor coypu What Is It? Nutria is a medium sized rodent that lives in freshwater environments. It is native to South America. A nutria can grow up to 40 inches from its nose to the tip of its round, rate-like tail. It weighs an average of 12 pounds, although some may reach...

invasivespecies.wa.gov

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife recommends that property owners contact a state-licensed trapper to capture and remove the animals. Any live-trapped nutria must be euthanized and not returned to the wild or transported within the state.

or a Ruger 10/22 should work just fine

 

[jbett98]

The imported Nutria were released into the wild after the market tanked.

Nutria

Nutria, a large, semi-aquatic rodent native to South America, were brought to the United States for their fur in the 1880s. They were introduced to Oregon in t…

www.oregonencyclopedia.org

 

[DirectDrive]

We see one or two when we go to Siltcoos lake every year. no one bothers them there I guess, so you can stand there 30' or so away and watch them. They look exactly like giants rats!

They are in the Smith-Bybee Lake area of North Portland.
The sloughs in there are perfect habitat for them.

 

[OldBroad44]

I read that some idiot brought them to the NW in the '30s for commercial fur farming
a couple breading pair got out and now they are invasive rodents in Oregon and Washington
haven't seen any in our area yet

right. They were brought here deliberately. As were muskrats. I think the nutria are only in maritime Oregon and washington. They have a tendency to burrow into banks and dikes and often destroy them. They can be major agricultural pests if near vegetable crops. They are vegetarian, but can reach 30 lbs, are fierce, and can take on and whip most dogs, even ones much bigger. Supposedly tasty. A friend of mine near the Willamette river traps them in and near his vegetable fields in live traps, dispatches them with a .22, and eats them. He confirms they are tasty.

Like me, he doesnt want to harm cats. Pets or feral. They are valuable to vegetable growers as they clobber mice, rats, voles, and gophers.

 

[fstdraw]

Tlock, 1971 for the trapper from OSU.

 

[rjmt]

I hit another one tonight with a .22 LR and it still ran off

I'm going to refocus the LPVO scope on my AR for 15' and see how these self defense Winchester PDX 5.56 , doesn't penetrate sheetrock, blow Raccoons in half ammo work

 

[Knobgoblin]

I didn't know nutria were this far north
we had them in Louisiana back in the '60s
they used to come into the yard after dog food
back then, one could shoot in your own yard with a .22
nothing but pecan groves behind us

Lol.
The area directly between our state Capitol and the governor's residence is infested with nutria. Oddly fitting, gigantic rats ..living and working alongside giant rats.

 

[Knobgoblin]

I've got a few racoon stories.
Once in Big Trees state park in California me and my buddies saw a passel of raccoons trying to get a baby left to itself in an automatic swing just on the edge of their firelight. There were about 12 of them and when we ran them off they were pretty snotty about it and left with great reluctance.
Well, we were heavily armed so nonchalantly drove/followed them down a big wide path and when they were in a safe spot murdered them all. Every single one.

 

[edzz]

Could always subject them to the cotton candy torcher.

 

[gmerkt]

he will make sure it was the day before garbage pick up instead of a a day after (in California heat they get pretty ripe by six days)

Black plastic trash bags, AKA raccoon body bags. Tied tight, the stink stays in the bag.

DEATH TO ALL RACCOONS.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate animals. Those that leave me alone, I leave alone. Rabbits for instance, we have lots of them around here. They don't bother me. Now if I was raising vegetables, that might be a different story.

 

[gmerkt]

I'm going to refocus the LPVO scope on my AR for 15' and see how these self defense Winchester PDX 5.56 , doesn't penetrate sheetrock, blow Raccoons in half ammo work

Might be a good use for some of those .223 frangible bullets.

 

[gmerkt]

No nutria in my neighborhood but we have some mountain beaver. Which isn't a beaver, it's a big rodent. They dig holes around where you may not want them. I've killed them before with a shovel, takes more than one whack to do the job.

 

[Knobgoblin]

I got a pile of these snot rockets done up as reloads.

55gr tho , not 40

 

[Flopsweat]

... a passel of raccoons ...

That's a gaze of racoons. Passel is for opossums.





* It's true though.

 

[Jtp]

Fixed it for ya

ined it look at those guns

 

[Jtp]

That ruined it look at those guns