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Who here hunts coons?

Im wanting to hunt something while everything else is closed, but what does one do with the coons once its shot?
 
When I was a kid my grandfather and I used to hunt coons. We skinned them and streatched the pelts. I think they were worth more then. He also used to render the fat, knew people who used it for an arthritis treatment. Never ate one.
 
In Ontario you need a license to hunt them at night and a licensed dog as well. Chloe the Mastiff is my new coon dog... it is kind of cool shooting racoons out of trees with a .22.
Fur prices are better lately.
 
Brandon said:
does shooting them off the garbage can at 1:00am count as hunting? little f*ckers...
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If you live in a remote area, it should be as long as they are in season. I think coon is hunted at night in Ontario.
 
They sure are fun to hunt over hounds at night. I made some good money in my teens doing this every weekend in the fall. I would even skip school the next day to go coon hunting all night.

Here are the fur prices from the June 2007 Fur Auction sale here in Ontario. There are different regions and prices for coons so this is just a ball park figure.

Raccoon
Offered 70,710
Average $18.15
Top $27.56

http://www.furharvesters.com/saleresults.htm

They are a lot of work to prepare properly (skin, scrape and stretch). I use to average 45 minutes back when we did a hundred of them per year. They have to be harvested when the fur is prime (Fall and early winter).

Follow the link above, they also have fur handling tips on the website.
 
"...off the garbage can at 1:00am count as hunting..." Nope. Counts as a hunting illegally though. And a criminal offence if you live in town.
"...Chloe the Mastiff is my new coon dog..." Chloe's bark knock them out of the tree? WOOF! Thud!
 
It's only illegal if your licenced coon dog isnt treeing the coon on the garbage can or you don't use a .22 rifle, assuming you have the night hunting licence and are not in a no-hunting area.
 
By all means eat them. The smaller ones roasted taste like the dark meat of a turkey. Just make sure you remove the glands from under the arm pits when skinning.
 
cancer said:
Sounds like alot of work for $18.
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It sure is. Coon are greasy and gristly to flesh, and a bunch of coons with multiple holes, bad sewing jobs, improperly skinned, fleshed and stretched will not average $18. In fact you will be lucky to sell them. But properly put up fur will be rewarding by the process itself as well as the fur check you receive.

Back in the Fur boom a coon was well worth the work. I remember getting $23 for one I had shot with a shotgun.........:eek:
 
sunray said:
"...off the garbage can at 1:00am count as hunting..." Nope. Counts as a hunting illegally though. And a criminal offence if you live in town.
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if he shot it off his garbage cans he is protecting is property the other part about being in town i don't know
 
I can remember getting like $45 for a coon in the early 80s

Man we killed alot. Traped em mainly tho.
There grease stinks pretty bad i got kicked outa the house a few times after a good coon skin scrapeing :D

tough little buggers to kill to! ive clubed alot of em and the big males put up a pretty good fight.
 
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