Coonskin cap anyone?
I was sitting here last night working on my holster (I’m trying my hand at holster making- I used to be a decent hand at leatherwork, and there’s no reason I can’t make a tolerable holster) and I saw two coons eating my fucking tomatoes!!
I pumped up the Sheridan and cautiously opened the window, but the larger of the two ran down to the pond and was gone. The smaller took off up a small tree, which was too far from any other tree to jump. So I waited- only a few minutes, he realized his mistake very quickly- and on his way down I sent him to Allah.
Little beggars.
I got no issue with raccoons but I’m damned if I’m gonna cultivate a garden so THEY can have fresh tomatoes.
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How is it possible that boomer demand for coonskin caps in the 1950s, a promotional bonanza for Disney with the release of his Davy Crockett, DIDN’T drive the raccoon into extinction? I mean, we human’s are a crime to the planet and all, and boomers are the worst!
I recall only that I was dissatisfied with mine because it didn’t have a blaze of white in front like Davy’s. You’re too young to have remembered this, so maybe the coon survived only because not all of us boomers were born yet.
Ed: Fixed. Thanks for clarifying, P.
Extinction? Damn, you clearly don’t live in the midwest!!
Extinction??? Someone is spending far too much time reading Greenie-Weenie bullshit. I live in the city of Mountlake Terrace, WA, about ten miles N. of Seattle. I am nearly run over with Procyon Lotor. Hunnerts of the hairy little buggers, dozens, maybe. Those and ‘possums. The whole damn State is up to it’s armpits in ’em. My favorite ‘Coon medicine is my Topper M158 tipup .30-30 loaded with a .310 lead roundball over 3 gr. of Blue Dot. Sounds like a kitten sneezing and is an instant kill with a good body hit on a boar ‘coon.
No freakin’ pumping, either. I got lucky with my rifle, as this load hits point of aim out to about 45 feet. Excellent for back yard ‘coon control. And it’s damn well fun, too.
The current iteration of the ol’ Topper is the NEF Handi. Your local gunshop has ’em. CHEAP!
Gerry N.
The sheridan is just so much fun to shoot!
I’ve got coons around here the size of pitbulls. And I live in the damn city.
BTW, could be wrong, but I’m wondering if Pascal didn’t make a typo there and mean to say “How is it possible that DIDN’T drive them to extinction” in a semi-sarcastic kind of way.
Don’t mean to put words in anyone else’s mouth, but I’ve read Pascal many times and an idiot he ain’t :)
Gerry N. What? You think we Greenie-Weenies are crazy or something? Who knew? (Are you sure? NPR keeps telling me I’m bad for the planet.)
And Grau — you’re right. Og, please add “didn’t” like Grau just said.
Og keeps saying he’s gonna find a way to let us edit our posts, but I know he’s got bigger varmints to skin. And I can edit MY posts at my own site, and it doesn’t make any difference — I still make error after error; why you might even think I was human or sumpthin’.
I live in the neck of the woods where Davy Crockett was born. From what I understand, he never wore a coonskin hat.
Suppost you trashed the carcass. Too bad.
They’re pretty good eatin’
I think I would eat one if I was hungry enough, but they eat a lot of trash in these parts. Same possums. I might think about groudhog, they mostly eat roots and bugs.
I’ve eaten raccoon…once. Because I had a bad case of the ‘RUNS’ a few hours afterwards.
Although it was ‘tasty’ I’ve skipped it eversince.
Still they are on my vermin list.
All The Best,
Frank W. James
The coyotes have cleared out most of the coons and any small creatures, period in my neck of the woods. Groundhog, fox, four of my cats…gone too. The coyotes don’t seem to be able to catch a dang rabbit though.
If I was starving I’d eat pretty much anything I’d have to, including other people. I’d make sure to stick to the vegans though. Grazers always taste better than meat eaters :)
Just have to make sure not to eat anything around the spinal cord or brain or you could get infected with the prions that cause “mad moonbat” disease…
Oklahoma City, we’ve got coons, possum and coyotes all over the damn place. Big ones, too.
They’re good to eat. I’ve had one.
Be perfect for your sonofabitch stew.;
so far 16 rabbits ( all little ones) 3-4 ground squirrels and a few voles and about 16 bunnies. Some in traps, some with a RWS mod 48 and the rest with those cap 22’s in a browning a-bolt. The browing is the best. Don’t know what it would do to a coon. Yes I am in the city otherwise it would be straight 22 LR. I agree with Og, let the critters plant their own damn garden. Far as coons go, they are like cock roaches. They will be around long after we are gone.
So? Didja skin it out?