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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Dec 3, 2006 22:37:53 GMT -6
I've shot coyotes quartering away hitting behind the last rib and angling through into the chest cavity.
Most die without an exit wound. If that takes to long I just do the head shot and get it over with.
Badgers can be shot from above between the shoulder blades skulls have value.
Joel
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Post by furman on Dec 4, 2006 2:35:56 GMT -6
On red fox - chest stomp (with your knee) best thing I have found on them. One trick is to make sure there on hard ground. On softer ground it’s hard to the chest compressed enough to get a clean kill. On coyotes I have never tried a chest stomp just shot them.
It would be nice to find a way to kill a coon that blood free and quick. The 220 thing would be nice and clean but it would seem to take up valuable trap line time.
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Post by bobwendt on Dec 4, 2006 5:42:34 GMT -6
furman, I can do ther 220 as fast actually faster condsidering the flippingand flopping after a shooting. I`m a canine trapper. I get it on him while he is foot caught. the key is you then pull it up snug right behind the ears so it is a clean throat catch. the bigger the coon the faster they go. they are long dead by the time I get the det re-made , maybe 2 minutes max. I keep severalk 220 set with saftys on but no triggered and don`t even take off the heads till I get home- like you say, time thing. tiny pizzzant coons like 10 lb and under it takes too long unless you put a vise clamp on the opposite jaws or use those canadian 220s
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Post by Steve Gappa on Dec 4, 2006 7:46:16 GMT -6
I find the 220 thing to be a colossal waste of time. It might work quick on small coon, but on a coon of any size, it is NOT quick and easy.
And if you tell me how easy it is to put a 220 over a trapped coon, I'l lhave to say you must drug your coons first. Here, a big coon will grab that 220 every time and more wasted time. Always fun also when they snap the trap on their arms, etc..
Shoot coon and be done with it.
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Post by bobwendt on Dec 4, 2006 8:18:20 GMT -6
LOL! I`m an old man and even I can "throw" a 220 on a coons head 9 times out of ten. you don`t slowly place it over his head while he is raging around and grabbing.
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Post by shagnasty on Dec 4, 2006 10:32:16 GMT -6
i have an ax handle about 2 1/2 feet long that i use. i club basically everything. different ways to club different animals, but they all go out fast.
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Post by bobwendt on Dec 4, 2006 11:02:32 GMT -6
the key to clubbing is hard and severe. no faster or more humane death than massive instant brain damage.
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Post by Wright Brothers on Dec 4, 2006 11:32:31 GMT -6
I asked question like this couple years ago and Bob told of BG in non shooting areas. It works good with 160 on coons. This year had a possum about 50 yards from a tree stand guy so instead of shooting I carried it to truck and 160ed it. Did not work real good on the possum. I was, over stocked on possum this year.
Best part is tree guy tattled on me for driving field roads. Farmer told him to leave me and my stuff alone. I smiled when hearing that.
I used to use a piece of ash sledge handle. Works fine but since went away from it because you never know when the eyes are upon us. Never thought I would care about that but times change.
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Post by bobwendt on Dec 4, 2006 11:41:19 GMT -6
unless they have night vision , no one sees much of anything I do.
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Post by JWarren on Dec 5, 2006 22:04:15 GMT -6
choke pole on cats and .22 high velocity short to the heart on everything else, NO BLOOD at all, hit something in the head with a bullet and watch the blood shoot everywhere
you are literally putting a hole in the most blood rich area of the entire body, ok if you like to wash stuff
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