Who Hunts Coon?

[RLHUNTER1]

Why would you hunt Coon insted of trap? Can you eat them?

HUNTER

[Multidigits]

Coons eat OK, most people BBQ them if they want to eat em. they are a little tough. They are nothing but a mass of fur and muscle.

Coonhunting is one of the greatest sports alive. It'll make a man out of you for sure. Next to tales of the old mountain men, coonhunters are the next closest thing left.

[trader rob]

rlhunter, coon hunting is for the dogs, not for the killing of the coon. most coon hunters kill a few coons , but would hunt even if no coons were killed. it's a dog thing.lol

[Feedman]

Nothing like going through the woods at night, listening to a good chase. You get 3 or 4 good dogs on track, what wonderful music they can make. Then coming up to a tree with the dogs sitting back and "Talking to him." Makes me want to go right now.

[RLHUNTER1]

I will put this on my list of things to try next year THANKS!!!

HUNTER

[WBBP]

Used to coon hunt a lot when I was in HS. Man that was fun. Nothing like listening to those dogs on tree. The older I got, the less time I had to spend doing it, plus there is just something about getting home at 4:00 AM that is not as fun as it used to be.

I don't mind missing the time we spent chasing down dogs that had gotten after a deer and ran to the next County either.

I remember slipping out one evening from the house and telling the parents I was going Coon Hunting. I never had a curfew if I was hunting/fishing. Once away from the house, I changed into my party clothes and we sped off to BG for some fun. Later that night at 4:00 AM as I coasted down the driveway (engine off) in my 68 Charger, I slipped out of the car and onto the front porch. My dad was sitting there waiting for me. A wave of fear came over me when I thought I was caught, but first I asked him what he was doing on the front porch at 4:00 AM. He said that he had just gotten in himself!!!!

That was his marriage No. 4. He is on No. 7 now!

The moral of the story is that not much good goes on after midnight, except hunting/fishing.

Merry Christmas.

K

[drakeshooter]

if you like dog training and companionship with your hunting, you'll love it. I coonhunted as a kid and for a while in my 20s. It was always about the dogs for me and to be honest, I rarely "gave" a coon to my dog, as a lot of loving was all the reward he needed. Too many long walks at daylight after "let's kick 'em out one more time!" contributed to me "retiring" from the sport.

I got into duck hunting since you get to sit alot and do very little work (yeah right!) and the love of training dogs came back to me. Watching my pup retrieve his first duck was priceless and almost like watching your child take that first step. It's the same feeling the first time that coonhound pup makes is first strike and then his first tree....priceless!

[snareman]

I do hunt coons, with a #220 conibear in a bucket!!

[trader rob]

thanks snareman, more should thank you, coons are a major predator to game birds, or basically any thing small they can find. and they are one of the three or four mammals most likely to carry rabies, and distemper.

[RLHUNTER1]

Can you get rabies from eating Coon?


HUNTER

[Okie]

No. And not likely in one out running anyway.

[trader rob]

i would think the better chance would be in dressing it. but that would be with any mammal. i think the northeast us has more of a problem with disease than in ky, due to the population of coons. nature has ways to limit over population, rabies, distemper, mange, cwd. ect. we don't hear of the big die offs like we use to when i was a boy. foxes for example wouold be thick for a few yrs. and then they would die off and you wouldn't see one .

[RemingtonSteel]

Only if you try to eat it before you cook it!!!!!:cool:

[jonescreek]

It is absolutely the most fun thing there is. Like Multidigits says, it can be hard as can be. But I love to 4wheel into a place with a good dog and this particular friend I hunt with, turn the dog out and then listen. The still and the quiet in the dark and the dog barking is just a blast. Plus you can talk and carry on. I love it. With a good dog you don't have the bad experience of having to hunt all over the creation for the dog, so that's key. Never have eaten one, though. I ought to, because the one thing I don't like is that I really don't believe in killing things for the hell of it. That's why I really don't care whether we tree one or not, I just like to hear the dogs and get outside.