Post by: jdb on February 13, 2009, 08:32:40 PM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on February 13, 2009, 08:39:41 PM
Post by: 509er on February 13, 2009, 08:43:52 PM
Post by: Ricochet on February 13, 2009, 08:46:25 PM
Post by: 509er on February 13, 2009, 09:10:19 PM
Post by: MHWASH on February 13, 2009, 09:17:54 PM
Post by: remington300mag on February 13, 2009, 09:18:31 PM
I eat them whenever I get the chance!!!!
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on February 13, 2009, 09:24:08 PM
Post by: FrankDown on February 13, 2009, 09:29:21 PM
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IF I have said it once I have said it a million times! EAT THEM!!! Gut, Skin, soak in water over night....then throw them in a slow cooker bones and all, spuds,carrots,seasons and make just like a pot roast!!! I'm telling you....they are great....tastes just like BEAR!!!!
What he just said...
Post by: CastleRocker on February 13, 2009, 09:46:50 PM
Post by: remington300mag on February 13, 2009, 10:22:35 PM
I suppose we better start shooting hummingbirds beacause they eat all the nectar that the bees get to make the honey we all love to eat. Time to load up some size 20 shot for a Hummingbird shoot.
Deep Fried Humming bird!!!! You could be onto something here....I will let you know how it turns out!!! LOL
I am just glad there are others on here that agree with the eating of them!!!! YUM!!!!
Post by: MuleySniper on February 13, 2009, 10:26:31 PM
I suppose we better start shooting hummingbirds beacause they eat all the nectar that the bees get to make the honey we all love to eat. Time to load up some size 20 shot for a Hummingbird shoot.
WTF?? :tree1:?
I shoot raccoons when they become a nuisance around my house. I keep my garbage cans put away, I generally feed my cat in the mornings when they are not around. Sometimes though, they become relentless. They also harass my dogs. One raccoon could easily kill my wives 9lb. dog. They are also a small game animal I believe. I don't think Ive ever seen hummingbirds in the reg book, although when I was a kid, I watched my buddy shoot one out of the air with his bb gun.
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Post by: Gutpile on February 13, 2009, 10:50:27 PM
Kind of cute and cuddly in the movies though. :rolleyes:
Post by: 509er on February 13, 2009, 11:05:35 PM
Post by: mossback91 on February 13, 2009, 11:06:51 PM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on February 13, 2009, 11:09:05 PM
I disagree with the wanton disregard for life and waste of animal life for the sheer pleasure of shooting and sport. If you shoot it eat it. If it is damaging or harming your family, pets or livelyhood then let them have it if there is no other option. Coyotes have been known to attack people and kill and drag off peoples pets. Raccoons will to but not as readily. If you are killing raccoons for sport then skin them out and feed the carcases to your dogs and cats at least.(if that is legal?)
For that matter you are even allowed by law to shoot deer and elk that are depredating your crops if all other methods fail.(I don't know why you would do that though because the state will compensate you for the damages)
Funny how it's appalling to most how the Indians will drop half a herd of elk take a little meat and leave the rest to rot and it's OK for some to shoot animals for fun and make no attempt to utilise the meat. :twocents:
Post by: Gutpile on February 13, 2009, 11:09:23 PM
Post by: remington300mag on February 13, 2009, 11:16:27 PM
I think everyone should try it!!
Post by: bobcat on February 13, 2009, 11:21:20 PM
As far as killing one and leaving it in the woods, well...I'm pretty sure it won't go to waste. SOMETHING will eat it. As long as killing them isn't hurting the overall population then I don't see anything wrong with it.
What really is there to keep the raccoon population in check anyway? :dunno:
Post by: 509er on February 13, 2009, 11:23:15 PM
Post by: mossback91 on February 13, 2009, 11:24:02 PM
Post by: ICEMAN on February 14, 2009, 05:04:18 AM
What really is there to keep the raccoon population in check anyway? :dunno:
Nature.
Post by: ICEMAN on February 14, 2009, 05:06:54 AM
Post by: bowhuntin on February 14, 2009, 05:56:35 AM
What really is there to keep the raccoon population in check anyway? :dunno:
Nature.
So nature will take care of wolves, coyotes, raccoons, cougars and other predators?
Post by: Curly on February 14, 2009, 06:05:39 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/22/ap/tech/mainD8JLHKF00.shtml
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Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia, devouring cats, attacking dog, frightening residents
OLYMPIA, Washington, Aug. 22, 2006
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(AP) A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say.
The cute little *censored*s do eat a lot of bird eggs from what I hear. If I see one out where there are grouse, pheasant, or quail, I'm going to shoot it. (And I even have a hard time shooting a coyote because I don't like to shoot things and waste them.) I'm still not sure about eating it though :puke: ........probably save it for one of you guys that like to eat them.
I killed a big one in my back yard last October. My dogs (labs) had treed it (or one of its relatives) the year before and I let it walk away. This time, I decided I'd help out the neighbors dogs and the local grouse population. ;)
Post by: ICEMAN on February 14, 2009, 06:13:20 AM
What really is there to keep the raccoon population in check anyway? :dunno:
Nature.
So nature will take care of wolves, coyotes, raccoons, cougars and other predators?
Yes. To be honest with you, and you know it too, yes. Nature would take care of it all if we didnt want to be considered into the equation. Nature took good care of itself before, and would do the same again.
Nature did just fine before we were involved...
Don't think for a second that I am a granola head.... I just think that nature would reach its own balance of whatever....if left alone. The problem is that I choose to hunt. Therefore, I wish to modify and impact nature to best benefit exactly what I want to hunt. I say kill the coyotes and thin the bobcats, so the deer and grouse I hunt, in the areas I hunt benefit. I dont hunt many grouse in western wa, so I say leave the Racoons alone. If I had a farm locally, and was bothered, I would say kill the racoons.....
Post by: bowhuntin on February 14, 2009, 06:29:21 AM
What really is there to keep the raccoon population in check anyway? :dunno:
Nature.
So nature will take care of wolves, coyotes, raccoons, cougars and other predators?
Yes. To be honest with you, and you know it too, yes. Nature would take care of it all if we didnt want to be considered into the equation. Nature took good care of itself before, and would do the same again.
Nature did just fine before we were involved...
Don't think for a second that I am a granola head.... I just think that nature would reach its own balance of whatever....if left alone. The problem is that I choose to hunt. Therefore, I wish to modify and impact nature to best benefit exactly what I want to hunt. I say kill the coyotes and thin the bobcats, so the deer and grouse I hunt, in the areas I hunt benefit. I dont hunt many grouse in western wa, so I say leave the Racoons alone. If I had a farm locally, and was bothered, I would say kill the racoons.....
Sure, nature did just fine when humans weren't around, but we are around and we are part of the ecosystem. Everybody talks about balance but I don't think there really is a true balance, it can be close. I think for the most part at times nature will have more than it can support until it swings more back towards the middle and for a time may be below what the ideal carrying capacity would be.
I don't think you are a granola head, nor would I think anyone on here would think that if they have been on this site for a while. I just disagree with you on killing these critters. I don't predator hunt, but some people like to do it and if you just shoot them and let them lay they will be used up by nature in some way or another. If there is enough of these critters around to hunt then I say shoot them, it isn't like they are endangered and it will benefit birds, such as grouse that are more palatable than a raccoon.
Post by: billythekidrock on February 14, 2009, 06:51:30 AM
In the old days if a cougar (predators) couldn't find food in the hills it came to the lowlands. If the food (deer/elk/rabbits) weren't there they would starve. Now there is always food (pets/people/garbage) in the lowlands. Predators are adaptable and very seldom starve anymore.
Post by: mossback91 on February 14, 2009, 07:27:19 AM
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Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on February 14, 2009, 08:41:30 AM
Post by: TeacherMan on February 14, 2009, 08:49:52 AM
Just kidding, kill the *censored*s... They are bird killers!!! They carry tons of paracites and oh man they can be mean. Shoot them :mgun:
Post by: alanger on February 14, 2009, 08:51:35 AM
How can you guys talk about killing the cute little guys, they are so playful and sweet.
Just kidding, kill the *censored*s... They are bird killers!!! They carry tons of paracites and oh man they can be mean. Shoot them :mgun:
wow teacherman you just went from PETA to Rambo in like 2 lines.
Post by: remington300mag on February 14, 2009, 09:06:42 AM
Post by: bowhuntin on February 14, 2009, 09:21:58 AM
(((EAT THEM)))
Do you advocate eating coyotes, wolves, bobcats. :puke: :puke: They are fur bearing creatures and there are better things to eat. Let scavengers and such eat that crap, nothing goes to waste that way.
Post by: boneaddict on February 14, 2009, 09:28:06 AM
Post by: TeacherMan on February 14, 2009, 09:32:03 AM
One of these days I will have to tell you the time that he live trapped a family of skunks in Bellevue and transported them in the back of his truck alive in rush hour traffic, oh man he got some good looks on that one. :chuckle:
Post by: boneaddict on February 14, 2009, 09:34:28 AM
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Post by: ICEMAN on February 14, 2009, 09:57:33 AM
Geez Iceman, you're beginning to sound just a little bit like a PETA member. :yike:
:IBCOOL:
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Post by: magnanimous_j on February 14, 2009, 09:11:28 PM
I would rather eat a pigeon
Post by: tmike on February 14, 2009, 09:14:37 PM
Post by: bobcat on February 14, 2009, 09:20:41 PM
Won't take much. A couple big tsunamis, a massive earthquake, California falling into the ocean, Mt Rainier erupting, that should do it. That'll be enough to keep us in check. At least here on the west coast. Maybe on other continents starvation and disease, along with other natural catastrophe's ought to do it. Oh and let's not forget global warming.
Post by: tmike on February 14, 2009, 09:29:39 PM
Post by: magnanimous_j on February 14, 2009, 09:41:55 PM
Good point.
Won't take much. A couple big tsunamis, a massive earthquake, California falling into the ocean, Mt Rainier erupting, that should do it. That'll be enough to keep us in check. At least here on the west coast. Maybe on other continents starvation and disease, along with other natural catastrophe's ought to do it. Oh and let's not forget global warming.
My vote would be pandemic. Throughout history it seems to be the most prolific man-killer. If this bird flu thing ever got off the ground, tens of millions of people could be fatally infected before the first one died. Scary stuff.
Post by: FrankDown on February 16, 2009, 02:15:38 PM
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Dont get too close to him
I thought that was funny she said she went to the mill.
He asked with what/how much corn?
She said a bushel.
He said what did you come back with?
She said "Grits"... I thought that was funny.
I think he was asking how much grits she came back with.
I had the raccoons that ate the oysters and clams and crabs. They was good eatin. Stuffed with sweet potatoes and crock potted, or slow cooked. To me its like wanton waste unless it has mange or boils or something, but even deer sometimes have things wrong with them. I have a hard time shooting yotes cause I dont eat them, but I skin them out. I have heard that bobcat and cougar makes good jerky. I dont shoot too many crows cause they taste like liver, I dont like liver too much, but occasionally I will eat it.
I challenge you to eat a raccoon or possum, put it in the slow cooker. Cut it up like you would a chicken, quartered and all. Cover it with water and put some onions and taters in there with some Lawrys or Johnnies seasoning. Slice up some carrots. Let the meat get done a bit before you add teh vegetables. It will fall off the bone. Ive eaten raccoon, possum, squirrels, marmots, and the regular stuff too like this. You can put some cream in there too just before its ready to eat to thinken it up.
If I was hungry enough Id probably eat just about anything. Ive cleaned animals and eat sandwiches at the same time. I think a lot of its in your head, that wont let you eat stuff like that. I wouldnt eat stuff that feeds out of dumpsters or in teh city, but away from the city even the pigeons are good eating. They are rock doves after all.
I grew up on the coast and ate my share of shrimp, crabs, oysters, and clams. Im no savage, I always cleaned my crab before I boiled them, so I didnt have to sift through guts to eat them. Theres nothing wrong with eating "the other" animals other than what you can get down mentailly. I used to watch the Vietnamese kids eating them big ol 3/4 inch ants by licking a broomstraw or grassblade and poking it down the hole.