Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8098778
03/13/24 10:39 AM
03/13/24 10:39 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Pa
Wright Brothers
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Pa
|
Some of the game laws here are strange. It came about this way on purpose. It was an us against the misinformed polis contest. To ask for a rewrite on anything is opening a can of worms with a self-destructing lid.
I thought weasels had a season but that may have changed.
We are allowed to protect our property, sweet corn, chickens, anything.
Groundhogs seem thin lastly, should we ask for a season? LOL
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: Leftlane]
#8098803
03/13/24 11:38 AM
03/13/24 11:38 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
elsmasho82
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
|
Is PA the state that won't let ya hunt on Sunday? Yes. They gave us three sundays the past few years. Archery, rifle deer, and small game. But foxes, crows, and coyotes can always be hunted on Sundays. Groundhogs get sundays off I think
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8098812
03/13/24 11:47 AM
03/13/24 11:47 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2010
Central, SD
Law Dog
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2010
Central, SD
|
What state has a limit on coons but not bobcats that always seemed strange to me for several reasons.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8098814
03/13/24 11:51 AM
03/13/24 11:51 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2018
Missouri
HayDay
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Mar 2018
Missouri
|
For raccoons and some others, I have always assumed much of the closed season was a nod to ethical concerns? As in not catching a nursing sow with young pups in the den, leaving the young to die of starvation.
Easy to vote your way into socialism, but impossible to vote your way out of it.
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: HayDay]
#8098821
03/13/24 12:09 PM
03/13/24 12:09 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
elsmasho82
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
|
For raccoons and some others, I have always assumed much of the closed season was a nod to ethical concerns? As in not catching a nursing sow with young pups in the den, leaving the young to die of starvation. Right so wouldn’t that apply to all other lil babies?? Sorry guys this thread has gone far enough. And I still don’t fully understand
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8098823
03/13/24 12:12 PM
03/13/24 12:12 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2009
east central WI
k snow
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Oct 2009
east central WI
|
For raccoons and some others, I have always assumed much of the closed season was a nod to ethical concerns? As in not catching a nursing sow with young pups in the den, leaving the young to die of starvation. Right so wouldn’t that apply to all other lil babies?? Sorry guys this thread has gone far enough. And I still don’t fully understand Land owners vs. hound hunters vs. fur trappers vs. nuisance trappers vs. tree huggers Its a mess, I don't think anybody truly understands it.
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: dixieland]
#8099035
03/13/24 06:46 PM
03/13/24 06:46 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
elsmasho82
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: Jan 2023
Pennsylvania
|
I know many, myself included, who trap coons for the sole purpose of eliminating nest robbers, in order to enhance their turkey population. Some states, well at least one I hunt, offers a free predator control permit, largely based on this. You can still eliminate predators, after trapping season ends(on private land). If you live in a state that protects coons, they’re not protecting Turkey. I’m not, nor will probably ever be super interested in turkeys. However I do recognize that raccoons play a huge part in their populations due to eatin up the eggs. My main concern with trapping in general has always been disease control. And of course fur is a beautiful by product of that. Our state is in a bit of an upheaval due to the potential reintroduction of the pine marten, mostly from Turkey people. Just don’t see why three “trash” species have open seasons while raccoons do not. Rotten little midnight marauders!
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8099039
03/13/24 06:52 PM
03/13/24 06:52 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2013
Green County Wisconsin
GREENCOUNTYPETE
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Sep 2013
Green County Wisconsin
|
@elsmacho28
I think the biggest reason that the racoons or trash pandas if you prefer didn't get unprotected species status like skunk and possum was that they had value until fairly recently as far as time it takes to change regs
houndsmen wanted them to run
trappers wanted them for fur
so they represented a resource more than nuisance while they were being used as a resource
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
|
|
|
Re: Raccoons and seasons
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8099064
03/13/24 07:39 PM
03/13/24 07:39 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Rodney,Ohio
SNIPERBBB
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Rodney,Ohio
|
I know many, myself included, who trap coons for the sole purpose of eliminating nest robbers, in order to enhance their turkey population. Some states, well at least one I hunt, offers a free predator control permit, largely based on this. You can still eliminate predators, after trapping season ends(on private land). If you live in a state that protects coons, they’re not protecting Turkey. I’m not, nor will probably ever be super interested in turkeys. However I do recognize that raccoons play a huge part in their populations due to eatin up the eggs. My main concern with trapping in general has always been disease control. And of course fur is a beautiful by product of that. Our state is in a bit of an upheaval due to the potential reintroduction of the pine marten, mostly from Turkey people. Just don’t see why three “trash” species have open seasons while raccoons do not. Rotten little midnight marauders! When considering season times, you also have to take into account user group conflicts.
|
|
|
|
|