When I was a teenager and raccoon pelts were selling for selling for $20 or better each here in the south an old gentleman showed me how to trap coons by using three nails. We were camped and fishing at an old oxbow lake and he had me drive real slow around the lake in a boat. He was looking for hollow logs lying along the edge of the water with one end in the water. When he found one he would look for a knothole in the log, then drive three or four 10 penny finishing nails into the knothole at an angle. Then he would drop a chicken bone leftover from the previous night into the log. He made a few sets this way and we came back the next morning. This lake was lousy with coons and if memory serves me right all but one of the sets had a coon. We motored up in the boat and Mr. Ross would hit them on the head with a heavy stick. The coons would not let go of the chicken bone, which allowed Mr. Ross to pop them on the head.
Now I know this is probably illegal, but in a survival situation a few nails in your BOB could easily provide a few meals if you had something to use for bait.
A couple dozen nails takes up less room than traps or snare and could be used for other purposes if needed.
Have any of you ever heard of this method?
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