No wonder the Lex. herald and the cj are going down

[QUOTE=kygorski;548829]This started out about bow hunting. I WAS a hunter, see nothing wrong with it. But bow hunting is not my cup of tea. Every year I hear about the search for wounded deer, by my brother in law and his friends.Yes they do bag a deer during the bow season, But how many did they hit and lose? I enjoy watching wild animals, turkeys, geese, ducks deer.I let some coon hunters on my property. I also enjoyed racoons looking into the picture window at us.But when they lost the entertainment value, and became pests, I hopefuly and humanely disposed of them.[/QUOTE]

I trapped and released 6 raccoons over the last couple of years. Just this week I trapped two more and released them. They carry disease and get into my bird feeders at night. Therefore I transfer them to a place far away from my house. But more raccoons keep coming into my yard. There must be a lot of them out there.

I'm not going to talk about contraception or abortion. I'll let the rest of you figure out what to do with that topic.

[QUOTE=Moveon;548859]I trapped and released 6 raccoons over the last couple of years. Just this week I trapped two more and released them. They carry disease and get into my bird feeders at night. Therefore I transfer them to a place far away from my house. But more raccoons keep coming into my yard. There must be a lot of them out there. [/QUOTE]I'd take the Ted Nugent approach to a raccoon problem myself. I grew up eating raccoon and sweet potatoes. You clean and quarter them and then you put those sweet potatoes around him and parboil him. After that you bake him. Let me tell you what, you'll have some good eating there.

I quit bird feeding this year, to expensive on my budget. Same with the humming birds. the later are not as common as they were when I lived in the boonies. Besides the bees and wasps got to be irksome also.

[QUOTE=sweetwater;548866]I'd take the Ted Nugent approach to a raccoon problem myself. I grew up eating raccoon and sweet potatoes. You clean and quarter them and then you put those sweet potatoes around him and parboil him. After that you bake him. Let me tell you what, you'll have some good eating there.[/QUOTE]

Can you eat a rabid coon? I don't know....

This is what I found out.

"If you follow good protection measures when preparing the animal (wear gloves and a mask, clean surfaces before and after with bleach, etc.) and cook at appropriate temperatures, any rabies virus particles present should be inactivated."

But if it was foaming at the mouth I think I'd just leave it alone.