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/6323946

At $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.

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.

Thanks for the info..Next fall wish to take my grandson on the line. Kids like quick results. Sometimes it’s about more than dollars.
Plus hid mother is an anti so I get quick results again. lol

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.

Thanks guys, great thread.. Try some red fox urine in the DP bait..

Ttt

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.

mac