Does anyone hunt coon anymore?
Oct 21, 2020 09:51:16 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Flyguy: I'm sorry but I wonder if you didn't get your decimal in the wrong place. $56.00 per pelt times 108 is $6048~! That is/was a lot of money when I was a kid, and probably was for you as well. Just Sayin....RJS
Nope, the decimal is in the right place, we averaged, $56.00 per pelt. Which means we got $45.00 for some and $65.00 for others. This would have been in the early to middle '60s. I had to split the money with my brother.
Oct 21, 2020 09:55:01 #
flyguy wrote:
Just wondering, 60 years ago most of the kids hunt... (show quote)
If I was closer I would go in a heartbeat.
Any prairie dogs up there?
At the rate they are going you should be able to wild hog hunt in a few years.
Oct 21, 2020 09:57:02 #
Egghead wrote:
RJS, I sold a couple for 50 bucks to people that want big ones to mount. It was mostly just getting rid of them. But I would get a 5 gallon bucket full ofsweet corn for every field i cleared lol and I ate it all.lol. and hunting rights for deer and pheasant so I think I was well paid. Here is a picture if My best hound.,her name was Kitty, she weighed 55 pounds. And was rock solid on a tree the lion was 207 lbs 9 foot from nose to tail. It scored 14 7/8 inches. She treed that cat by herself.
A nice-looking Walker, I can see the love in your eyes for her. You love her and she knows it. Thanks for sharing, Egg.
Oct 21, 2020 10:16:58 #
Egghead wrote:
Fly I would probly love to live where you do.lol. ... (show quote)
Coon hunters have a tendency to be long-winded, like fishermen. A very few cats around here but a few bobcats that would tear a hound up, and a lot of coyotes, now, not back in the '60s. I only used silent hounds, I figured they could sneak up on the coon better and you wouldn't have to walk as far. We usually used Walkers but also black & tans, blueticks and English blues and once in a while you will find a guy using a Mt. Cur. They were great times, Egg.
Oct 21, 2020 10:19:44 #
EasternOZ wrote:
If I was closer I would go in a heartbeat.
Any prairie dogs up there?
At the rate they are going you should be able to wild hog hunt in a few years.
Any prairie dogs up there?
At the rate they are going you should be able to wild hog hunt in a few years.
We have a few woodchucks, no prairie dogs, or wild hogs yet. We don't want the dogs or the hogs.
Oct 21, 2020 10:41:04 #
flyguy wrote:
We have a few woodchucks, no prairie dogs, or wild hogs yet. We don't want the dogs or the hogs.
Both are destructive.
Oct 21, 2020 11:47:46 #
Coons? Boy howdy guys. Yes, I used to go coon hunten. I feed the deer, coons, squrils, birds and so every day. My game camera is always full of pictures. The squrills and coons are the most active. Well, gotta go, my sister and bunch just showed up from Texas. My week will be full of more talk than I can muster.
Oct 21, 2020 12:00:41 #
Sitn wrote:
Coons? Boy howdy guys. Yes, I used to go coon hunten. I feed the deer, coons, squrils, birds and so every day. My game camera is always full of pictures. The squrills and coons are the most active. Well, gotta go, my sister and bunch just showed up from Texas. My week will be full of more talk than I can muster.
Enjoy the visit.
Oct 21, 2020 12:25:41 #
Big TC
Loc: Raytown, MO.
flyguy wrote:
Just wondering, 60 years ago most of the kids hunt... (show quote)
Barbecue coon is very good.
Oct 21, 2020 13:26:27 #
T Croft wrote:
Barbecue coon is very good.
Had an Uncle that told me that.
Oct 21, 2020 13:48:10 #
flyguy wrote:
Nope, the decimal is in the right place, we averaged, $56.00 per pelt. Which means we got $45.00 for some and $65.00 for others. This would have been in the early to middle '60s. I had to split the money with my brother.
I must have quit trapping too early. I did mine from around 54 or 55 til 62. I would get about 4.50 for a muskrat.
Oct 21, 2020 16:48:07 #
Flytier wrote:
I must have quit trapping too early. I did mine from around 54 or 55 til 62. I would get about 4.50 for a muskrat.
That was a good price for a rat.
Oct 21, 2020 16:52:52 #
Smoked coon tastes just like smoked ham. Very good, but it must be a young coon and you must take all of the fat off of it before you smoke it. Smoke it whole, grab a case of beer and some buddies and you are in for a good time! Those were the days, that I'm paying for now. But, what the he!!.
Oct 21, 2020 17:50:41 #
hillcat01
Loc: Kentucky
back in the seventies,my uncle was getting close to seventy dollars a hide for large unblemished hides.
Oct 21, 2020 18:41:35 #
threeCs
Loc: Allen Texas
I just hope you all do not get taken in by the PC policemen. Don't you know that in the day and time it is not a Black and Tan Coon hound but a Black and Tan Racoon hound.?? LOL
Enjoyed many good times with my Uncle and his hounds hunting coons. He was my Uncle by marriage but he had two brothers that also owned hounds and we hunted quite often. I was always chosen to climb the tree and shake the coon out. Boy were those days great fun.
Enjoyed many good times with my Uncle and his hounds hunting coons. He was my Uncle by marriage but he had two brothers that also owned hounds and we hunted quite often. I was always chosen to climb the tree and shake the coon out. Boy were those days great fun.
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