There are few ‘coon in our area due to rabies, but we do get a job now and then. A few years ago ‘coon had infested a warehouse. I followed the tracks from the warehouse outside in the dusting of snow and set along a fence line. If ‘coon travel a trail once, they will be back. We caught 2 outside in trail sets. The ‘coon were traveling along the eves also, so I put a couple of 220’s in their path and nailed the rest. Think we got 6 or 8 when it was over, again no bait.
After inspecting a ‘coon job yesterday I found raccoons living in the ceiling of a modular home, but again I opted for a trail set outside of the home. The normal method would have been to use a positive set on the soffit with a double door cage, but since the soffit was missing in many places around the house on all four sides, at least 30 feet of it, there was no narrowed single location to set.
With that, I noticed a well traveled trial in leaves leading from the porch steps through some brush to a small tree that was an access point to the roof. Like the old days, it was back to “trappin’.” I just placed a trail set with a double door 30 inch 9×11 Comstock Cage and had one today, which was the good news. But, the homeowner said she saw another large one.
