Trap them anytime that you have time. Saving turkey nests is all I need to get out of a coon, skin them if you want to work with pelts but there isn’t going to be any money in southern coons right now. DPs do not usually break legs, in fact I have never had a broke leg from a dp on a coon. Have had a few broken legs on small possums that can’t pull the trap out of the ground.