Rod, esshup and I removed a ton of raccoons over the last few years, and esshup will have the best advice. I trapped and "removed" over 30 raccoons with the trap being in the exact same place in 2021. We wound up losing our Killdeer, but I just didn't have it in me to keep whacking raccoons day after day. I changed the way I fed my deer, and am now seeing far fewer raccoons on the game cameras.