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wayne
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: bainbridge ny
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coon boxes

crosby cooner email me for this info thought i would post it for anyone interested
heres how i make coon nest boxes they are made just like a wood duck bos here are the dimensions 12 inches square by 18 inches deep make a hole on front about4 and a half inches round tack a piece of rubber acrss front covering the hole just leaveit very slack what this does is darkens interior and keeps rain out have them mounted abou 20 feet off the groun in a substantial tree ihave found they like front facing south or southeast
had 9 out this past year and 8 had kits in them this early spring
i put them up late in fall this keeps mice and squirrels from using them at first i put tincans of soured corn a little ways up the tree this attracted them to the tree and they found the nest

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10-21-2003 12:14 AM

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C.P. Richardson
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Good Idea! But we have too many hollow trees in Virginia now!!! lol

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wayne
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a good potion of the 1000 acres behind my farm is new growth with very little nesting spots found a few using my wood duck boxes so i built some a little larger and they used all but one this past season this is such a good safe place to hunt pups that i try to increase the coon population and have suceed quite well

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10-21-2003 05:45 AM

Doug Robinson
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Wayne

Until I saw your post I never realized you made nesting boxes for coon. Kyle and I have talked or a few years about making some for our land. When I was a kid in 4H we made wood duck boxes and put them up around at local ponds, so I was going to make some similiar but slightly bigger as you mentioned.
I was going to make the hole on the side so coon could climb tree and go right in the hole from the tree side. I never thought about a flap. I figured I would mount some in the big Hemlock trees on our land as coon seem to like to play in those trees as they are rougher softer bark and boxes should be less obvious to other hunters since they keep their needles year round. I was worried about squirrels using them, so you say put them up in the fall? I even thought about purchasing the lumber, and having the local 4H club build and then we could put up in the tree's as a project, then monitor. Can you see inside to tell if females are using for litters? Do you put a little hinged trapdoor to monitor? What do you do, carry an extention ladder to the woods? What type of wood do you like to make them out of? I was going to purchse rough cut Hemlock or pine at the
lumber mill. Any suggestions welcom, thanks!

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Doug Robinson
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Wayne

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10-22-2003 03:57 AM

wayne
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doug had a fire in the basement burned up through the floor and destroyed the whole kitchen had to move into apt above garage until i have my elrctrical stsyem checked as many wires burned so won't be on comp for week or so let skip know for me incase i miss his call to go hunting tell him come anyway i'll be home much work to do first the pup got killed lately without bad luck i wouldn't have any at all
now to boxes i forgot to mention moint themside to trunk so coon can enter i use rough cur lumber without the flap they fill with water as the coons usualy plug drainholes with litter i pt one side with screws so you dan clean them out by the way julie found the one i forgot where i put it as far as knowing if there using it if you tap it with a pole they will pop out or the kits cry i use a light weith ladder from a treestand to climb up to mount them and check them

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10-22-2003 07:34 AM

Doug Robinson
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Wayne

Man you have had some bad luck lately, I am so thankful no one got hurt. I'll send an email to Skip as you suggested. Do you have a cell phone? Well don't worry hope your insurance company gets right on it, make sure you keep on them. Take care things have to get better. I'll be in touch, I sent you some emails and mailed out Julie's easy entry card so look for it in the mail. Take care and call me if you need anything, anything at all!