deschmidt27
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Location: Burlington, CT
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Originally posted by Black LICK
lazy hunting....hate seeing plastic buckets hanging in the wild...why not plant some berry patches or mulberry trees...also I think it is changing our wildlife....like the bear that hit the garbage....just an opinion....yes I am aware the coon come to houses to cat food or dog food bowls left out...and that's the point.....lets keep the wild stuff wild...just a thought.
I used to think the same way, until I moved down here! I thought everyone just thought they had it tougher than someone else, which meant their dogs must be better. But the truth is, it is just that bad. Up North, you could hunt a 5 acre patch, with literally 12 coon in it. Down here, it could be 50 acres with one coon in it! My dogs are grubbing up tracks and treeing it a 1/2 mile to mile away, and I'm told that I'm doing well! So, if you are professional coon hunter with plenty of time on your hands, then spend all night looking for that one coon! But if you have a job to get to early in the morning, or a pup to train, then a couple feeder buckets to get coon to hang out at a specific end of the 50 acres, is probably not a bad idea!
Again, it may be only one coon or one travelling a long ways, so it's not like they're hanging out there all night! Some hit the bucket at dusk, some at 3 in the morning, and they're not they're for more than a half hour, so it's not exactly lazy hunting. It's not like you pull up and they scatter!
And yes, you could plant a raspberry or mulberry bush, but that only feeds something for a few weeks., what do you do for the other 49? It's sort of like food plots, where folks rationalize how that's "natural" and a pile of corn isn't... really??? Is a bulldozed section in the middle of the woods, with clover growing in it, really "natural"??? Is the only mulberry bush for miles around, conveniently located on my property, really any different than a feeder bucket full of corn in that same spot? If it's man-made... it's technically not "natural", so should we be splitting hairs?
And speaking of "natural"... what is "natural" for a raccoon? I'm pretty sure coon all over this country, have been eating man's garbage and left-overs, for as long as there has been man around. You could hunt that 50 acres, full of acorns, cherries and mulberries, but I'm willing to bet that from time to time, you'll run one that crosses the road to check out that subdivision!
Bottom line... choose to use them if you want, for the right reasons, or choose to not use them. But don't cast judgement and call others lazy...
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05-29-2015 02:30 AM
Sorry if I upset anyone. Tree my dog on aisle #10......
