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Corn Monkeys!?!

dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 24 in General Discussion
The corn monkeys are getting real abundant around here. Planning on going hunting for them next week. Gonna use it primarily as a shooting tune up for deer season. I know they are quick and hard to hit, which is why I think they will be a good deer season tune up. My question is, will my 22 mag get the job done in a quick humane way or should I step up to my 223 or 243?
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'd opt for a Daisey BB gun. Stealth is a primary concern and noisy reports from a rifle will scare the critters into the neighbors property. Besides the North American corn monkey is considered an endangered species. Your mission is to discourage, not to kill.[;)]
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  • Duce1Duce1 Member Posts: 9,329
    edited November -1
    dreher do not forget to keep a few. They taste great deep fried with a topping of salsa.
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  • we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Check you local game regs. Most states dont have a season on them.
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    The season is open year round here in MO, dang corn monkeys!! It's gettin' to where you can't hardly walk the edges of a field and not jump 15-20!![:(!].

    As far as weapon to use, since you are wanting to bone up for deer season, I would use the .243, it would something more similar to what you would be carrying during deer season.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Woo HOOOO!!! It's Corn Monkey Season again!

    Go for the 223 or 243...
    Never know when they'll get too big for an ol' 22mag...
    You sure want to be prepared!!!

    Keep us posted at how the season opener goes next week... [:D]


    Gotta go dust off the deer rifle and practice on those Eastern Tribe o'Corn Monkeys... [;)][;)][;)][^]

    Do ya thing my ol' 12ga slug gun would be a wee bit too big...?



    Naw, I'll just replace the slug barrel with the smooth bore and use some #2 or #4 shot...

    Take out a couple - three at one time... [:D]
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  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 15,576 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    they are viscious, I tried to keep one for a pet and it bit my ear off.. cured me from trying to bite it however, so I ended up haveing a happy ending, and one hell of a carpet cleaning bill.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by matwor
    The season is open year round here in MO, dang corn monkeys!! It's gettin' to where you can't hardly walk the edges of a field and not jump 15-20!![:(!].

    As far as weapon to use, since you are wanting to bone up for deer season, I would use the .243, it would something more similar to what you would be carrying during deer season.

    Dang I'm green with envy Matty! [:p]
    The NCDNR won't allow non-game species hunting unless there is an open gun season already in place...
    Same thing for feral hogs... You can shoot ferals anytime during any other posted hunting [gun] season... Or during archery season with a bow/arrow...

    Just can't hunt out of a posted season... [crap]

    Which reminds me....

    The NCDNR has finally opened up deer season on Sundays for bow/arrow on private lands...

    AND...

    You can procure and use a cross bow of 175+ lb during bow/arrow season with a pistol permit or CCW permit... [:D]
    My season just started earlier on 11-Sept rather than end of Oct with BP season... and I can go right out the back of my place and hunt Sundays... Double days this year.... Woo HOOOOO!!

    Corn Monkeys BEWARE!!!!
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by quickmajik
    they are viscious, I tried to keep one for a pet and it bit my ear off.. cured me from trying to bite it however, so I ended up haveing a happy ending, and one hell of a carpet cleaning bill.
    Good Lord quickmajik are you gonna be OK?
    Did you get it stitched back on?
    Do you have a scar? [:0]

    How much did you have to pay 'ol Stanley Steamer to clean that carpet?
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by we_dig_it
    Check you local game regs. Most states dont have a season on them.
    Yep... check your state reg's...

    Non-Game species can be hunted in NC during any other hunting season...

    i.e.: If they're worth hunting AND there not already regulated AND
    there is another hunting season in place THEN you can hunt them using
    the same regulated means [gun/bow] as per the current hunting season...

    But don't be taking out Corn Monkeys on the 4th-July or during archery
    season with a gun... and, get caught. Bad JU-JU... and BIG fines...
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nord
    I'd opt for a Daisey BB gun. Stealth is a primary concern and noisy reports from a rifle will scare the critters into the neighbors property. Besides the North American corn monkey is considered an endangered species. Your mission is to discourage, not to kill.[;)]
    Oh My...

    When did they hit the endangered list?
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  • owen219owen219 Member Posts: 3,799
    edited November -1
    I just lost my very best * dog to 3 corn monkeys last evening. I took Ole Blue out to let him run a few * to get ready for * season and the * dog trials coming up. We had to cross through a corn field to get to our woods run area down by the creek. About half way though Ole Blue got wind and started his howling and took off like a streak. I figured he had hit a * trail and rushed to catch up. Almost to the edge of the cornfield I heard Ole Blue scream like a stuck pig. I ran as fast as I could to come upon the bloodiest scene in the outdoors I had ever seen. There was Ole Blue, or what was left of him, with three Corn Monkeys flailing his carcas with their vicious tails. I didn't have a gun or any type of club. It was too late anyway and I wasn't about to let those Corn Monkeys have a chance to turn their attention on me. Frankly, I just ran as fast as I could back to the truck and came home. I intend to go back and bury what is left of Ole Blue maybe in a daymor two. If there is enough to bury. I will be taking my sawed off Browning A-5 12 gauge with 00 buck and my Judge .410 sidearm hoping to run across that specific troop of 3 Corn Monkeys but willing to dispatch any I can find on my mournfull trip to lay Ole Blue to rest. Ole Blue was a champion * trial dog too and I had turned down offers to sell him up to and including $5,000. The loss was much more than the monetary value. I hate Corn Monkeys and will kill any at anytime. I couldn't sleep last night and can't lose the vision of what happened. Kill em all!!!
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    A crossbow........hmmmmm, now ya got my wheels turning. The local shop has got a customer claiming he's pickin' off golf tees at 100 yds with the PSE crossbow AR upper!![:p]
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  • GRIZZLY17GRIZZLY17 Member Posts: 1,676 ✭
    edited November -1
    Please excuse my ignorance but WTH is a corn monkey? Are we talking about * here?
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anything less than a .30-06 running M2AP is suicide. Do not, under any circumstance, use a bolt action or a single shot, as reload times are far too time consuming. Belted magnums are a plus. Semi-autos, and mags that hold a minimum of 20 rounds are preferred.

    "Overkill" is a word used by those that have never been mere inches from the jaws of a titanium-fanged death. Curling up into an assball because you just voided your bowels in fear will only make their bloodlust further increase to a level known only to Satan himself.
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Being as it is cooler here the CMs are just starting to show up. We do have open season on them as they are considered varmints and vermin.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know what you boys are drinking, but I am glad I live far from the lot of you. And those monkeys.
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  • owen219owen219 Member Posts: 3,799
    edited November -1
    Grizzley, if you don't know, you are fortunate and don't want to know. Just don't go where you hear the little critters are known to be. Search this forum under Corn Monkey for more information and pictures. Kill em all!!!!Bless Ole Blue, he was a good dog.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Went walking past one of my neighbors corn fields about 20 minutes ago. The corn monkeys started howling. I've never heard them howl in full daylight before. Howling right at dusk is normal, but I have never heard them howling at 2:30 in the afternoon. Does anyone know if this has any significance, means anything or does this kind of thing just sometimes happen?
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Can you cook them on a spit over coals?
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    quote:Does anyone know if this has any significance, means anything or does this kind of thing just sometimes happen?

    i've found that theyre not aggressive when theyre howling. it's more of a territory thing i guess. it's when they start making that clicking noise with their teeth that you have to watch out.
    tom
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by GRIZZLY17
    Please excuse my ignorance but WTH is a corn monkey? Are we talking about * here?

    Oh my... You've never seen a corn monkey!?

    Oh heaven's sake... Just be careful 'round the corn fields this time o'year...
    They start to congregatin', then hootin' and hollerin' such would make any sane man cry...

    We've plotted and planned in the past to catch 'em...
    Just to be attacked and mangled beyond recognition...

    They've been seen as far north as the Dakota's and south beyond Texas, East to the Atlantic last year... and headed West... to the land o'fruits and nuts....

    We've used buckshot, 30-30, 243 and the fast little 17 hummers... but we can't keep their numbers from growin'...

    If'n you see one... RUN like the wind... Run away... Run away fast!!!
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The SKS works well on them too. It is short and handy, the bayonet helps if they surround you and you are forced into hand to hand combat.
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  • owen219owen219 Member Posts: 3,799
    edited November -1
    I like to grill them on slow and baste them in my butter, salt and white pepper mix. I try to shoot and save em up to have the neighbors over for a Corn Monkey cook out once a year. They love it and look forward to it. One of my neighbors, an X Marine sniper, loves to shoot the little basxxxds too. But he won't share his with anyone else and eats them all his self but he always shows up for my yearly cookout to pig out. He marinates his over night in Italian dressing before grilling. He has said they are really hard to hit for the head shots and that he has had many man targets over the years that were much easier at great distances. I have tried to invite myself along on his hunts but he hunts alone and is a lone wolf type of guy. He takes his Corn Monkey shoots seriously and calls them his special ops missions. He always comes home with the Corn Monkeys and they are always head shots. He dresses up in his black ops gear to hunt them. It is almost scary.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been contemplating carrying a 12ga AOW just due to it's handiness...

    Just concerned I'd haven't a chance if they a little too far from reach of the 00 buck...

    Anybody used the quick handed 12ga AOW against those corn monkeys"
    Any success? Maybe going with a larger quantity of smaller shot would be effective...
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  • GRIZZLY17GRIZZLY17 Member Posts: 1,676 ✭
    edited November -1
    Well I'm sitting here out on my picnic table looking at the field with my 45 on my side so I think I'll be ok for now. Second thought I only have 13 shots though[:0][:0]

    The Beans are closer though... Do I still have to worry?[;)][;)]
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  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 15,576 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by retroxler58
    quote:Originally posted by quickmajik
    they are viscious, I tried to keep one for a pet and it bit my ear off.. cured me from trying to bite it however, so I ended up haveing a happy ending, and one hell of a carpet cleaning bill.
    Good Lord quickmajik are you gonna be OK?
    Did you get it stitched back on?
    Do you have a scar? [:0]

    How much did you have to pay 'ol Stanley Steamer to clean that carpet?



    Damn thing swallowed it and it was turned into earsuey when I shot it with the 870. I had to reload twice before it stopped trying to attack me.. I have a prostetic ear now..

    Damn near bankrupted me.

    here is a picture of him. When they start purring, it is time to shoot em or run away.

    dog_squirrel.jpg?t=1265935292
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  • BeeramidBeeramid Member Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had to put down one that had the hyrdaphobie yesterday. Had to shoot it twice with 3" magnum plated buckshot. Even after that it was twitching a little.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    I remember when you only saw them in Nebraska and Iowa.
    Those were the days.
    Damn things nearly wiped out the Jackalope.
    Saw a big doe last year. Haven't seen a buck in many a year.
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    I don't know what you boys are drinking, but I am glad I live far from the lot of you. And those monkeys.


    Does this mean you're not coming this year?!?!?[:0][V]
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not if you are gonna be drinking with monkeys!
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  • pirate2501pirate2501 Member Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    CORN MONKEYS [:D][:D][:D]
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ok I will Probly Catch a Ribbing for this but Here Goes Anyway
    What ta Hells a Corn Monkey[:I][:I]
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    What is amazing to me is the difference between the Males and the Females - you might think they were different species!
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
    Ok I will Probly Catch a Ribbing for this but Here Goes Anyway
    What ta Hells a Corn Monkey[:I][:I]


    From an earlier thread...
    quote:SC DNR has an area dedicated to the rhesus monkey, a close relative to the corn monkey. Although similar to the rhesus monkey, the corn monkey is not as intelligent.
    The rhesus monkies in SC on "Monkey Island" as the area is known, favor corn just as the corn monkey's do and I quote from the website:

    http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20040216/019564.html

    quote:

    The monkeys have formed 30 "troops" or social groups ranging from 25 to 200 animals. They move through the woods in packs and occasionally bully for territory or a chance to stuff their cheeks with corn thrown by workers to attract them.

    "It's almost like candy to them," project manager Scott Cheslak said as he scattered a handful of corn.

    They posture aggressively but don't often fight. As two groups moved in on the corn, one monkey shrieked and jumped straight up and back, getting out of the way of another. But both groups got a share of the corn, a few monkeys stuffing their cheeks so full they sagged, then backing off to eat."


    Check out the information on the website. It's very informative.
    I think that the SCDNR has a contract to determine the exact means of eviscorating the corn monkeys from the corn fields in the mid-west.

    And beware...

    Corn Monkeys travel in massive packs of several dozen specimens...
    They have been known to completely devour an entire 40 acre field of corn in less than a day...

    While they're meat is sweet to the palate... the discriminating cook never deep fies a corn monkey, but rather BBQ's over a slow fire on a spit... Direct radiant heat is the trick to a sweet corn monkey.

    Harvesting corn monkeys is rather difficult.
    Some set gourd traps by placing small amounts of corn inside with a small 1/2" hole drilled in the side of the gourd... Corn Monkeys being greedy, will squeeze their small hand into the gourd to get at the corn... When then, they can't extract their hand with the corn, they're caught... CAUTION!!! Do NOT attempt multiple catch traps with more than one hole! Several corn monkeys caught in the same trap are a fierce group to behold...

    Sporting with a small firearm is the way to go.
    There has been debate over which caliber is best to take corn monkeys without destroying the small bands of lusciously sweet back-straps so sought after by gourmet cooks... 22S are good but require the hunter to gain a close proximity to the troop of corn monkeys... so close that in fact, if your're using anything less than a semi-auto rifle... you'll be attacked by the remaining troop.

    The 223 semi-auto rifle gains the advantage of distance, but the impact force can turn your next corn monkey BBQ event into waste... So the debate rages on as to the correct size, caliber, and platform of firearm to use in hunting corn monkeys...

    Some have tried shotguns in an effort to take more corn monkeys at a time... but they rarely achieve the desired effect.

    My advice is to watch and learn before you attempt a sporting trip for corn monkeys...

    Documented information on the allusive corn monkey is sketchy, but we're working on a data base currently that should lay the groundwork for a corn monkey season... at least in Nebraska and parts of the Dakotas to the north and northern Kansas to the south... Iowa and Missouri to the east...

    As you read earlier in the small amount of information provided by the SCDNR... the Carolinas are where much if not ALL the research is currently being done... I know that the NCDNR in conjunction with the SCDNR at the research facility on 'Monkey Island' has been trying to reach out to other State Wildlife Departments, but, have as yet been turned away due to the savageness of the corn monkeys... One researcher lost the small fingers of his right hand as he was trying to offer some corn to a couple... poor fool.

    Now the others on the forum may be able to shed some more light on corn monkeys, if in fact, I've possibly missed a couple of key points....
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    beautiful. i am in awe.
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  • barbwiredbarbwired Member Posts: 7,924 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
    Ok I will Probly Catch a Ribbing for this but Here Goes Anyway
    What ta Hells a Corn Monkey[:I][:I]

    I'm glad some else had the go-nads to ask the question, It had me stumped too. Thank You, Woodshed87
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by barbwired
    quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
    Ok I will Probly Catch a Ribbing for this but Here Goes Anyway
    What ta Hells a Corn Monkey[:I][:I]

    I'm glad some else had the go-nads to ask the question, It had me stumped too. Thank You, Woodshed87

    I refer you back to my previous post... [;)]

    Did it answer yer questions?
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  • barbwiredbarbwired Member Posts: 7,924 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by retroxler58
    quote:Originally posted by barbwired
    quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
    Ok I will Probly Catch a Ribbing for this but Here Goes Anyway
    What ta Hells a Corn Monkey[:I][:I]

    I'm glad some else had the go-nads to ask the question, It had me stumped too. Thank You, Woodshed87

    I refer you back to my previous post... [;)]

    Did it answer yer questions?


    I think I caught on but pm I might be a little dense.[:D]
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  • ROY222ROY222 Member Posts: 549 ✭✭✭

    Have not heard much from the corn monkeys lately.

    Did all the illegals chase them away or eat them?

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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,241 ✭✭✭✭
    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11454239#Comment_11454239

    Corn monkeys are a Haitian delicacy. They're liable to be listed as rare and endangered by the USFWS!

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