A decent nights work
 

Too bad the price of their fur is going down the toilet.

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Nice coon. Yeah sucks that fur prices have dropped so much. I can't wait for Christmas break from school so I can get out and find a couple coon

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Got these in Illinois. My part of Ohio lost a large part of the coon population last year. It has come back pretty good this year, but with a lot of young stuff. So, i am leaving the stuff around my place alone.

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Yeah I'm just trying to thin the herd I have to many sitting at my deer feeder at night. I need to strike some fear into them critters.

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Looks like a good night for sure Lanse

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I used trap years ago and sold all my stuff soI do not any more.. The house next door to me is owned by a guy from New Jersey who hasn't been up this way in around 15 years or so. The coons have taken that house over and did they ever wreck the inside of that house.. I have tried to buy it for the land a few years ago but I think he wanted to much for it. I recently bought a live trap to get rid of some feral cats and made sure it was big enough for coons. So next yearI will try and move some of them away from here as well..Anyways congrats on getting your coons Lanse..

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those are some big coons.approx. how big is the bigger ones?

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I think that the biggest one may go XX. The two smallest ones are probably this years kits and will only go large. Got these the night before Thanksgiving. I shot a couple moretrapped another 6 that weekend. Had more XX's and at least one XXX in that bunch.

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a guy i know works for the USDA wildlife services as a biologist. he told me he sometimes gets coons to test as big as 30lbs. i didn't realize they could get that big. nice job

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Nice.

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Good job those are some nice coons,and too bad about the fur prices,how long will the furs keep in the freezer?

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nice coon!

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good night

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When i freeze my fur, i generally roll each pelt up and then put them in a garbage bag. That will keep them fine until the end of the season. The fur buyer said that they should keep until next year if i wrap them in newspaper and then put them in plastic bags.

I think that the biggest coon I ever killed was probably around 25 pounds. But i think there are some guys on here from out west who seem to pretty consistently bag coons up around 30lbs.

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41#, our biggest

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well done, looks like a good time was had by all!

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We are gonna try again. However, it is either 10 degrees with everything covered in ice or in the 50s and pouring down rain.whenever it gets somewhere in-between those two extremeswe are gonna hit the woods.

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nice coons congrats

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did you shine those or use a dog?

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We shined 'em. Would much rather have listened to dogs run 'em. But, nowdays, i dont even know anyone around here that has coonhounds.

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def a good night! We got ten one night, that was lots of carrying! Love coon hunting!
-Jake

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You might want to check the laws on holding fur till the next year. I remember when I ran hounds and hunted I'm pretty sure that IL. furbearer law states that you must sell your hides by a certain date.

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Pretty sure that you are only supposed to hold green hides for 30 days after the season closes in Illinois.

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their prices arent down over here in MO!!!?!!! Theyve gone down a cuple cents every 3 or 4 years but its still good money!!!

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What are you getting over there. It is only about 9-10 top dollar here and i heard it is about the same in southern illinois and indiana.

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My dad said he used to trap and he would catch coons and he would sell there fur for 20 dollars each thats good....What happpend?

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The fur market varies.Up until the late 1980s there was a big demand and the prices were often really good. But then the animal rights activists had a big impact on the domestic fur market and things went down the tubes. In recent years the prices recovered somewhat because of the demand for fur in Russia and elsewhere. But the global recession is effecting that.