hey guys! today i was doing some sewer exploration and ran into some angry raccoons. It kinda freaked me the fuck out (I turned a corner and they were right fuckin there, snarling at me. I had to run). Any advice for ways to fight raccoons? Would something like a tazer or mace be effective?
>>1092700
>any advice?
Yeah, leave the buggers alone. For you its urbex, for them its a big weird smelly racoon like bastard trying to destroy their home - guess who's gonna give up first
>tazer or mace
For a tazer you need physical contact, which might be really stupid unless you like rabies shots. Also try using mace in the open, much less 'enjoyable' in close quarters.
My guess is, the raccoons found a dirty old hole and made camp there, you wont find anything there of value..
>>1092700
Mini bat is my first choice for dispatch on the trapline. They die... ugly
There is a raccoon that hangs around my property keeping the cats away so I half buried the top of a dog igloo thing and covered it in dirt and debris. Now he's got a nice cave to live in.
>>1092700
Cover your exposed skin and swing objects at them.
When I was a kid, I was camping and had a new KABAR. Saw a coon. Tossed my knife at it to be a badass. Missed by a few inches. The coon just looked at my knife and then grabbed it and tried to run off with my brand new KABAR. I had to chase it through the woods to get it back.
I was so mad.
>>1092700
>Any advice for ways to fight raccoons?
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>>1093972
Did you get it back?
>>1093977
You're special, huh?
>>1092700
You see, there's this thing that's been around for somewhere between 65,000 and 800,000 years that's very good for killing or discouraging animals.
It's called a pointy stick.
They're free and readily available almost anywhere.
>>1094092
You never said you got it, just that you chased the coon. I'm not the guy throwing new knives at animals.
>>1094194
You can infer that if he hadn't gotten it, that would have been included in the story. Furthermore he said it TRIED to run off, suggesting that it failed.
>>1092700
Once when i was partycamping with my friends a raccoon stole some of my pop tarts so i lured him with pb sammys. When he came out i smoked him with the blender we were using to make cocktails
He made a pretty scary sound and i stayed up all night doing coke clutching a hatchet in fear of retaliation
>>1093972
say KABAR again.
>>1096253
KABAR.
>>1096253
Brand. New. KABAR.
>>1096308
It was my new KABARĀ®