Coon Weight
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01/13/20 10:03 AM
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My biggest coon was 26 lbs this season. That is a monster for us. Average is 15-20 around here. What do your coons weigh ?
Just a weekend trapper...
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Re: Coon Weight
[Re: clintp1971]
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01/13/20 06:47 PM
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54 pounder??? Surely you have pictures Wished I did.Back when I was a teenager coon hunting with coonhounds.They get big up here.Big fat butterballs as they hibernate all winter.
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Re: Coon Weight
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01/13/20 06:58 PM
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Maine.gov Adult raccoons weigh 15 to 40 pounds, their weight being a result of genetics, age, available food and habitat location. Males have weighed in at over 60 pounds. ImageMaine.gov › php › raccoon-vtPDF Raccoon - Maine.gov
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Re: Coon Weight
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01/13/20 09:53 PM
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Most of our bigger males run 18 to 20. Biggest I've ever caught here was 29. Jim
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Re: Coon Weight
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01/14/20 09:30 AM
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Next season I'm going to weigh the coon just for ships and giggles ,to see what they average size wise. I weighed some coyotes later into the season to see how they average weight wise. So far females about 27 1/2 and males 37 pounds. Caught this coon last week ,Grandson had a hard time handling it , should have weighed it ! Stretched to over 5x on the board !
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Re: Coon Weight
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01/14/20 07:21 PM
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Next season I'm going to weigh the coon just for ships and giggles ,to see what they average size wise. I weighed some coyotes later into the season to see how they average weight wise. So far females about 27 1/2 and males 37 pounds. Caught this coon last week ,Grandson had a hard time handling it , should have weighed it ! Holy Poo Wads Batman - that thing looks "dangerous"... LOL!!
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Re: Coon Weight
[Re: clintp1971]
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01/16/20 09:44 AM
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Holy Poo Wads Batman - that thing looks "dangerous"... LOL!![/quote] Coyote addict , that is a toad!!! Congrats I don" know what he weighed but he filled out the board 5x
Member -W.T.A. N.T.A. - N.R. A. A Shotgun. A Rifle and a 4 Wheel Drive.. A Country Boy. Will Survive
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Re: Coon Weight
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01/28/24 12:36 AM
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Late season racoon in these parts it's not uncommon to see 30-35 lb. boars. but have heard of some larger.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Coon Weight
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01/28/24 09:01 AM
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I’ve caught 87 or 88 coon so far this year and have never seen so many over 20# . I’ve weighed 5 that went between 23 and 24# , usually only a few over 20# . This year has been a ton of 20 plus coons I believe distemper has worked over the little ones but I could be wrong
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Re: Coon Weight
[Re: RegularJoe]
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02/01/24 12:40 PM
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I think guys tell more coon stories than fish stories. I weigh every coon on a digital scale and it takes a monster coon to get past 25 lbs. Some may have more fat stored for winter, who knows. I watched a YouTube video of a guy claiming the coon he was skinning weighed 28 pounds, it honestly looked like a 20 pounder to me, short body with nothing striking about it's size visually. I don't care, I don't think many live to a ripe old age even with low fur value, I still like reducing the population.
I agree 100 %
When a man tells an unbelievable tail , like we all read earlier without a photo or any documentation is then becomes a BS story and people will question you from then on. Photos, too are often altered to make things appear distorted. Hold an object out toward the camera and it makes it appear much larger than it actually is. Fishermen do it all the time. It's the oldest trick in the book ! People do with animals, either by hanging them up and standing back behind them or holding them toward the camera. Kneel down behind a grizzly, an elk or even a deer, with the head toward the camera and SUDDENLY that animal is nearly twice the size ! Optical illusion ! Magician's trick ! These people are blowhards Real outdoors men will quickly see through it
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Re: Coon Weight
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02/01/24 07:41 PM
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here in my part of kentucky(eastern, mountains) big coons are 15-20 pounds. not a lot of agriculture for them to feast upon. Now when I was younger I use trap coon for family who raises game birds in lower Michigan, corn country... Between eggs and corn it seemed like every coon I caught was huge.. around 20 pounds.. I think my biggest was around 30 pounds, maybe a bit over.. Big sloppy,fat boar who had been raiding pheasant eggs for a long time.. Now just coon caught in the wild,away from the game pens around 20 pounds is my biggest..
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Re: Coon Weight
[Re: LT GREY]
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02/05/24 10:36 PM
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I think guys tell more coon stories than fish stories. I weigh every coon on a digital scale and it takes a monster coon to get past 25 lbs. Some may have more fat stored for winter, who knows. I watched a YouTube video of a guy claiming the coon he was skinning weighed 28 pounds, it honestly looked like a 20 pounder to me, short body with nothing striking about it's size visually. I don't care, I don't think many live to a ripe old age even with low fur value, I still like reducing the population.
I agree 100 %
When a man tells an unbelievable tail , like we all read earlier without a photo or any documentation is then becomes a BS story and people will question you from then on. Photos, too are often altered to make things appear distorted. Hold an object out toward the camera and it makes it appear much larger than it actually is. Fishermen do it all the time. It's the oldest trick in the book ! People do with animals, either by hanging them up and standing back behind them or holding them toward the camera. Kneel down behind a grizzly, an elk or even a deer, with the head toward the camera and SUDDENLY that animal is nearly twice the size ! Optical illusion ! Magician's trick ! These people are blowhards Real outdoors men will quickly see through it Put any critter on the back of a tracker and it will look big
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Re: Coon Weight
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02/05/24 11:52 PM
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I had a coon this year that would barely fit in a 5 gallon bucket. I wish I had weighed it.
He had been eating underneath the neighbors corn feeder.
CK
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Re: Coon Weight
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02/06/24 12:05 AM
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We had our winter meeting a few weeks ago and always have a largest raccoon contest. Mine was 30 lbs and took 4th while 1 st was 34 lbs.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Coon Weight
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03/02/24 05:11 PM
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My biggest coon came in 1980 in a fox set.
That coon weighed #32 lbs & stretched 44" & 6XL, I think
Sent him up to Winnipeg, Manitoba to the Dominion/Soudak Auction where he sold for $88.00 which, to date, is the most I ever got paid for coon, before or since.
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Re: Coon Weight
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03/03/24 06:05 PM
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20Scout. We also weighed in at the annual meeting and came in 3rd or 4th with a 32 pounder, about 10 years ago. The biggest was 34 pounds. But even at 32 pounds, it looked like a small bear
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