Chernobyl Raccoon Egg
Cap for Dog Proof Raccoon Trap
2025 / 2026 Trapping Season
Chernobyl Raccoon Eggs dog proof cap with scent / lure holder base made to protect your raccoon bait and enhance your raccoon bait.
Helps keep mice, birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and pack rats from eating bait out of Dog Proof traps. Your trap still has food in it when the Raccoon comes by.
Helps keep bait dry from rain and snow, so that bait is fresh and scent still working. Not 100% airtight so scent can still get out.
Helps with the eye appeal at night, keying off the raccoon’s eyesight of detecting shiny objects. Helps on those nights that the wind is in the wrong direction the raccoon is traveling or moons are not up all night and/or overcast skies at night.
POWER of the EGG - The No. 1 Nest Predator - Research going back to 1948 by biologist across the nation. 75 years of research on Wild Turkeys nothing NEW they are looking for the eggs. They can’t help themselves. If you ever raised chickens, you know this to be true!
SCENT / LURE HOLDER BASE - Creating a feeding frenzy that needs to be satisfied with bait in Dog Proof!
SCENT / LURE HOLDER BASE
Creating a feeding frenzy that needs to be satisfied with bait in Dog Proof!
You can do this in any order.
Take 1 cotton ball and with small screw driver shove into base aka as scent holder.
The bolt will grab cotton and keep in place.
You can now add lure/scent, fish oill, salmon oil, or crayfish oil to cotton balls before you deploy in dog proof.
Whatever it takes to produce more tight chains.
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Each egg is individually made and only available in limited quantities.
All Chernobyl Raccoon Eggs are shipped USPS Priority Mail Forever Prepaid Flat Rate Medium Box
Maximum of packaged 24 Chernobyl Raccoon Eggs will fit in Medium Box.
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CREDIT CARD ORDERS
$7.50 per egg + plus Flat rate shipping from USPS will be $21.95
Lower 48 States Only
Per egg price shown has credit card fee already applied.
Each egg is individually made and only available in limited quantities.
Canada Orders please message me shipping price will depend on weight and I must fill out with shipping address - USPS Customs Declaration and Dispatch Note must be filled out.
HISTORY LOST
Trapping Community
Going from the footholds for raccoons to dog proofs in the early 80’s some history or knowledge was lost, forgotten or just not passed along as the type of trappers have changed from fur takers to landowners for management.
It is mentioned in the book A Natural History of the Raccoons - MacClintock page was published in 1981 pre dog proof traps. “Trappers take advantage of this attraction to bright objects”
1933 thru 1981 publication it mentioned – Water Set – For Raccoons, a bright object like aluminum foil, clam shell, or bottle cap wired to pan will act as attractant.
Trapper 1 - In my story “First Catches” which was in Trapper’s World I described how I caught my first raccoon with a piece of aluminum foil on a trap pan in 1962. One of my uncles had told me to do that.
Trapper 2 - Remembers people talking about aluminum foil and metal shiny crawdad's also for trapping raccoons.
Trapper 3 - This is from the FC Taylor catalog shiny metal fish, I used tin foil on the pan, caught my first three raccoons on tin foil on trap pans set in shallow water.
They mention raccoons like to play with bright objects like brass trap tags, soda can tops, aluminum foil, fake crawdads or fake minnows. Even one book has the - Shiny-Pan Set
Scientific Community
Raccoons are thought to be color blind or at least poorly able to distinguish color, though their eyes are well-adapted for sensing light. - (Hohmann, p. 63; MacClintock, p. 18; Zeveloff, p. 66)
Eyes are large and convex, which allows for bright images to project into the retina. The retina contains fewer cones therefore raccoons tend to be color blindness or possibly have “color weak” vision. It may be difficult to detect colors but they can detect a difference in brightness. (Zeveloff 2002).
Historical Literature
Where the Red Fern Grows Chapter 7 – 1967 – Raccoon would stick his hand inside the brace to pick up something shiny (like a piece of a tin can)
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Trapping Brothers and Sisters Results
2025 / 2026 Season
Arkansas - 2025
From a Trapper in Arkansas – I am really liking the Chernobyl Raccoon Eggs.
My brother and I have been using them on the trapline. Caught an awesome black Raccoon the other day using Chernobyl Raccoon Egg. This is the one I’m thinking about mounting.
The Chernobyl Raccoon Eggs. They really work!
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Wisconsin - 2025
We went from footholds for Raccoons to Dog Proofs is a perfect example of trying something new!!
Older trappers’ book. PRE 1980's – Coon Trapping – The Untold Story – By Mike “Red” O’Hearn
Quote: The greatest limiting factor each of us must deal with is ourselves.
Quote: One of the hardest things for a person who has some degree of success, is to change, or try something different.
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