Prebaiting coon off deer feeders?
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Anyone with experience prebaiting coons off deer feeders? Some hunters have a coon problem on the feeders in the fall. I'd like to clean the coon off the feeders quickly so I can concentrate on the yotes but where they are placed is fairly wide open and scouting the place didn't show any trails yet the coon are thick coming off the roads to the feeders. So I need to drop something than can pull them to a better ambush location.
Thinking about spiking some dog food in coon sized feeders and placing them where I need them.
Any other ideas would be welcome.
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Re: Prebaiting coon off deer feeders?
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LOL Good pic Hern.
Do you set traps around it during the season or is it just to draw them away from any feeders?
You can't cheat the mountain pilgrim. Mountain's got its own ways.
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Thanks Hern, I appreciate the info. I have a buddy who is buying a 200 acre farm in southern Ohio and is planning on putting out multiple feeders. So this type of information is good to have to help him out, as well as good knowledge to have for myself should the need arise.
You can't cheat the mountain pilgrim. Mountain's got its own ways.
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Re: Prebaiting coon off deer feeders?
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Use 4-inch or bigger, thin- wall plastic pipe for feeders. Coon still work them but you don’t go through so much food. A little liquid smoke on the outside helps get them interested.
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Here is what I do on my contract jobs. IF a client wants coons trapped along with coyotes. I simple set out camera on feeder and throw some sweet feed around them . If i return and camera shows 6 coons I set 7 traps. I use cat food with a squirt of clam juice, then I put 1 white marshmellow on top of trap and 1 inside trap.
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Re: Prebaiting coon off deer feeders?
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You Tube "Burger king set" and there's some good info about a coon station setup to prep for a big coon trapping harvest. Thank you very much AJE, I loved that video. Now I can't wait for the fall to arrive. I never saw that guy's videos before. After watching that one I instantly subscribed to his channel.
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Re: Prebaiting coon off deer feeders?
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I've had a stump shaped corn feeder out for a few weeks and coon track pass it by about 10' away. Can't seem to get them to the corn. They're probably not having a whole lot of trouble finding food this time of year. Shoot some liquid smoke on the corn, it'll be gone in a day or two.
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Re: Prebaiting coon off deer feeders?
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Wolfeman. What is buck jam and where do you get it? Thanks Not wolf, but you can buy Buckjam at about any walmart or outdoor shop. It's made to attract deer, and in my opinion baiting for coons at any scale in this market is not plausible with it. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Evolved-Habitats-Buck-Jam-Ripe-Apple-Mineral-Lick/6323946At $10.99 a jug it's just too expensive to get a bang for your buck. When I was capturing deer on trail camera it did attract coons quite well, especially the apple.
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I had the chance to speak with Tim Caven a couple years ago about setting deer feeders. He and his son apparently trap in a southern state from time to time. Anyway, he said the farmer’s trail cam under 2 feeders showed 20-30-40 coon consistently. Tim said they set 50 DPs under each of two feeders. He said he used prepared bait. And he said the first night they caught 2 coon but got a butt load of ribbing from the farmer.
Then he said by setting the trails (with DPs), leading to the feeders, they took a truckload of coon with the prepared baits. My conclusion from this is that if you use the feeder grain, you’ll have a chance at a good catch. But if you work the trails leading to the feeder, your chances are much better.
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the first post was how to pre-bait coon off deer feeders. Again very hard. You can get them to hit the other baits off the feeder easier if they are located where the coon are coming from, but to pull them off and hit only the pre Bait very hard. The feeder will have more bait and in use longer than most trappers will have a pre bait, and the most important is a fix behaviors for the coon to come check the deer feeder. I too get my tail handed to me at deer feeders unless they are empty. One Method I will use is do a coon feeder out from the deer feeder on the most used travel routes where the coon are coming from, most of the time dug in then set the trails leading from that one to the deer feeder. I use a sweet bait and lure most of the time in those sets. the dug in spot does not allow them to fill up and the trails to the deer feeder is consistent used trails. Take a little bit of time to get coon hitting both at the same time.
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Thanks guys, great thread.. Try some red fox urine in the DP bait..
Common sense catches alot of fur.. Pay homage to all you harvest..
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WadeRyan who has posted on this thread has posted a tremendous amount of excellent information about pre-baiting raccoon on here in the past. If you look on the archives I bet you will find his posts. It is worth the search.
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