@Aleph(0) Although you have often stated that many regard your attitude in this matter 'callous' -- I feel you are being far too kind to 'the departed' whose cowardly act jeopardized your life and that of other bystanders!

HP Thanks for posting that but I say even if it wasn't for his total recklessness and disregard for other ppls safety and feelings I'd feel exactly the same way cuz of the total selfishness of it all! So like I said it's NOT like he was facing death or disability from incurable disease or prison sentence or anything like that! So I have no sympathy for ppl who invite me to their gristly suicide cuz it's just rude and his now being dead doesn't earn any respect points with me when it was by his own hand! So yeah! Explosion was on magnitude of one in video and I was less than 20' away so I leave rest to imagination of anyone morbid enough to want to dwell on it

 

A friend just cited this relevant web page.

https://joakimsoderberg.github.io/catcierge/

 

Been a while but three more just showed up at once. Drilled one in the head and got one in the butt as it ran away. Gonna be a rough night for that one!

Had two more a few months ago as well. Most raccoons we have ever had in the area in my life. Even the neighbors are seeing them this year.

 

#3 just developed a fatal headache!

Both 20+ # coons.

Pew Pew Pew!

 

Buried the two today and I have to say the one (had it not been a bloody mess) would have been worth weighing this time. By far the biggest raccoon I have shot ever. 30# maybe?

Never did find the one that took a bullet in the butt but there was a blood trail for a short distance so I can assume it bled out some place. Guess I might have to expect to find a dead rotting coon sometime next spring now. (I hate that.)

The deck, and side of the house also looks like a overdone Halloween haunted house chainsaw murder scene too.

 

Do you need a permit to kill those pests where you live?

 

Do you need a permit to kill those pests where you live?

Cmartinez IDK abt Dakotas but in US states MN, WI and MI for sure u don't need license to just shoot (but not trap) varmints (like raccoon, fox, skunk, beaver, rabbit, badger, squirrel, coyote and like that) on your property outside city limits. But if u do it for food or pelt then u definitely need small game license from state DNR.

 

Guess I might have to expect to find a dead rotting coon sometime next spring now. (I hate that.)

Tcmtech I say if u lived around here in NW _Crown Land_ Ontario that wouldn't be problem cuz scavengers would have it b4 it had chance raise a stink!

 

Tcmtech I say if u lived around here in NW _Crown Land_ Ontario that wouldn't be problem cuz scavengers would have it b4 it had chance raise a stink!

More than likely scavengers will find it first unless it's close to the house. I have no idea where it went so I don't know so far. Out away for the house, 100+ yards, is fine but under one of my decks or in the brush along my stream or hillside or one of my parked seasonal vehicles or machines is not what I am wanting to deal with.

 

Tcmtech here where I live scavengers aren't that shy!

 

Most aren't here either but the only larger ones that would take care of large raccoon carcass are the coyotes and they tend to not come close to the yard. The bigger issue are the neighbors or my Dads or brothers dumb dogs that would drag it back into my or their yards then the stinking thing to pieces on somebodies deck just for fun.

As the local backhoe owner I seem to be the one who ends up getting called over to bury such precious doggy treasures.

 

Most aren't here either but the only larger ones that would take care of large raccoon carcass are the coyotes and they tend to not come close to the yard.

Tcmtech so ur saying there're no bear and wildcats in N. Dakota? So here dead raccoons are sometimes cannibalized by other raccoons! So I say maybe Dakotan predators and varmints have gotten finicky just by being too fat and happy!

 

No bear or big cats in my area. Coyotes and the neighbors dogs are about all we have here that would haul off a dead coon carcass and right now with the deer hunting season on there is plenty of the remains of whats left of them to pick from since most hunters gut them in the field now rather than haul the whole deer home.

 

So here dead raccoons are sometimes cannibalized by other raccoons!

--Emphasis Added--

What else do you imagine dead raccoons might be cannibalized by, pray tell?

TTFN
HP

 

--Emphasis Added--

What else do you imagine dead raccoons might be cannibalized by, pray tell?

TTFN
HP

You've never seen birds eating a carcass? http://vireo.ansp.org/bird_academy/carrion-eating birds.php

 

You've never seen birds eating a carcass? http://vireo.ansp.org/bird_academy/carrion-eating birds.php

Shortbus, the key to HP's sarcastic question lies in the word cannibilized...

 

You've never seen birds eating a carcass?

They're probably the most common observable scavengers I have in my area. In fact we have several bald eagles that frequent our family land and are by far the best indicators for where a dead deer or other larger dead animal is at.
The numerous smaller birds here like the common crows, hawks and such just don't draw enough visual attention compared to them and coyotes and smaller scavengers are rarely out in the daytime so whatever they are cleaning up tends to not get much attention drawn to its whereabouts.

As for HP's comment I am pretty sure she's teasing Alph(O) on the literal meaning of what cannibalize means.

 

You've never seen birds eating a carcass?

Birds Yes! -- Winged raccoons? - Only after eight fingers of 'neat' Macallan

TTFN

HP

 

Birds Yes! -- Winged raccoons? - Only after eight fingers of 'neat' Macallan

TTFN

HP

I had flying cats earlier so...

Three way male kitty fight went epic take down mode and fur was drifting across the yard like cottonwood seed fluff on a windy day .

He who thought he was the boss was refuted in that belief system and dispatched back the unheated shop with maximum effort.

 

A three cat fight? ... must've been epic ...