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Joined: Dec 2012
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This may have already been covered, but, the no closed season on Raccoons the CAB suggested. Has that taken effect or have the legislature voted on it yet or where does that stand for you guys that are in the know?
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Good question. It was proposed at the January meeting but I don't remember a resolution.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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As of last week no, we had to get a permit at the club to trap raccoons & opossums.
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The season doesn't start until September and it'll never close until they decide to change the law again
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I sure would like to thin out the coons on my lease. I start putting out corn the first weekend in May. Already seeing deer with antler growth hitting my feeders, but also a lot of coons.
On two different cameras, I've got pictures of 6 or 7 at a time. It's like they are having a coon party.
As an after thought, does anyone know of a way to keep them off my feeders?
When coon season opens, I would be open to having a coon hunter come in and help with this problem. I haven't been coon hunting in 45 years, but I still remember the thrill of hearing my dad's dogs get on a trail.
Of all the things I've ever lost, I think I miss my mind the most.
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I'm not that far. Could come kill some coons out for you. Just give me a call or message me.
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I permit, and 1 dozen traps will do lots better than anything else as far as reducing your coon population.
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I normally harvest 3 to 5 coons a hunt with my Triple Grand English Coonhound .
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I normally harvest 3 to 5 coons a hunt with my Triple Grand English Coonhound . where are you hunting at? I ain't seen a dog that can tree 4 coons a night in probably 12-15 yrs and we was hunting in thick thick thick coons. It's a good night for me to tree 2 coons
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Treed four the last night we hunted before the season went out. I think the hunt prior to that one we knocked out three.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Treed four the last night we hunted before the season went out. I think the hunt prior to that one we knocked out three.
well y'all have better hunting then I do or I just haven't got the dawg power
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I usually tree two or three in a 2-3 hour hunt.
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I hunt a combination of private land and TVA Public Use land. My old Pride dog is the best I have walked behind in 25 years of coon hunting!!
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Never coon hunted before but after getting ratted out last year by a hissing coon while deer hunting, I decided the next one that walks under my bow is going to his Maker.
What exactly do you do with them after you shoot 'em? I'm not really a coon skin cap kinda guy.
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They're edible. Skin them, remove the tiny scent glands in the legs, marinate and bake or put in a slow cooker with carrots, celery, onion, taters.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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They're edible. Skin them, remove the tiny scent glands in the legs, marinate and bake or put in a slow cooker with carrots, celery, onion, taters.
Lol, I'm still trying to bring myself to eat a squirrel (which people say are great when properly prepared and I believe them). Raccoon is pretty far down the list for me. Somewhere south of rattlesnake and north of armadillo.
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Once you make it into jerky you can't tell it's not deer.
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