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How do I make a living coon hunting?

First off let me tell you that I hate my job! I repossess vehicles and it is no fun. I have been shot at and have had knives pulled on me while doing so but I can't get a new job that pays the same as what I make now and pay my bills. Everyone says to have a job that you love. So how do I make a living COON HUNTING?

living

Ha-ha when you find out let us all know
I am gona be retiring in a few years so I guess I need a plan for the future

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u can marry more in a minute than make in a lifetime. marry up or find money man to hunt and campaign dogs for. I wouldn't wanna coon hunt for living first off no matter how u do it not gonna pay great unless u fall into perfect situation. also doing it for living would eventually take fun away.

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i will finish the game.

You got a good chance to get shot at or knife pulled on you Coon hunting too crazy as people are now.

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You never know

That is the truth they are some crazy and weird people out and about now days and a lot of them are out in the woods with you any more.

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Yea I know

I guess everyone gets tired of doing the same old job and I guess even coon hunting for a living would get old too. I guess I just wanted my own boring post on here to see what you folks would say. lol! I guess it's like the lottery, it don't cost anything to dream. lol!

I did it for a living for a while......it is not as great as it sounds

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A friend started a coon training pen years ago. He loved coon hunting until it was his job. Said it lost it's fun REAL quick when you start doing it for a business.

John Wick said the same thing, you HAVE to go weather you feel like it or not.

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I repossessed cars for several years... still do it for one account. Problem is, it cut into my hunting time! I definitely agree with you....

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A friend of mine is the exterminator at the local university. He's completely quit hunting. Deer turkey coon bear. He quit it all after he got the dream job of hunting for a living.

I always thought being a repo man would be awesome

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Not sure a money man to campaign a dog for would provide good insurance or retirement plan.... I got a family to worry about More than I worry about my personal interests. I hunt more than the average Joe, but still make it to work everyday because this is the real world. Lol

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do you want to win, or do you want to be nice?

Haha that's easy, you don't. Better of trying be fishing guide or chartering

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Originally posted by fox_91
Not sure a money man to campaign a dog for would provide good insurance or retirement plan.... I got a family to worry about More than I worry about my personal interests. I hunt more than the average Joe, but still make it to work everyday because this is the real world. Lol

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i will finish the game.

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There is only one way that's comes to mind to me that truely u could make money and that is buy young dogs 6 to 8 months old at decent price hunt them 30 to 60 days and flip them u are going to half to be smart in your decisions do two young dogs at a time and always make sure you have two ready to work when next two are ready to sale it's not going to be a great living but that is only way I can think of .... And if one of the two dogs and worth Salen u no what to do with it cause u can't sale a dud to someone and get your reputation ruined.......by way of I was you I would stay repo man if I was you

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Hunting, once you take it off the enjoyment shelf and put it on the "it pays my bill's" shelf. Takes on a different feel.

Instead of wanting to go hunting, you have to go hunting.
Instead of wanting to travel to a comp hunt, you have to travel to a comp hunt.
Instead of having a good time and laughing at the mistakes the dogs make, you have to be figure out how to stop them.
Instead of enjoying the fellowship of a comp hunt, you have to win that comp hunt.

Makes you look at coonhunting differently!!

Good Luck!

Lots of truth in the "you can marry more in a minute" thing.
Had a friend once that married a sweet older lady that had a lot of money. Several of us were hunting one night and asked him to be truthful about the fact that if her Father hadn't left her all that money would he still of married her.
He looked us straight in the eye and said he didn't care who left her the money, he would still marry her.

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Lots of truth in the "you can marry more in a minute" thing.
Had a friend once that married a sweet older lady that had a lot of money. Several of us were hunting one night and asked him the be truthful about the fact that if her Father hadn't left her all that money would he still of married her.
He looked us straight in the eye and said he didn't care who left her the money, he would still marry her. [/B]

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One way could be to try to open a sporting good store. One of my friends did this and travels to all the hunts and has been very successful with it. This isn't really coon hunting for a living, but its pretty close to it since you could take your store to all of the hunts.

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Christopher Huffman

Here's a way. Raise as many pups as you can and sell them for $5000 each, And kill every coon you tree and sell the hides for $1000 each. Good luck.

Josh

Josh there are a lot of different aspects to this sport.
Select the one you like the most and fits your lifestyle and have fun. Anything can be done with hard work.

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Originally posted by shadinc
Here's a way. Raise as many pups as you can and sell them for $5000 each, And kill every coon you tree and sell the hides for $1000 each. Good luck.

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Id say the only people living off coonhunting are the guys selling equipment and im betting theres none of them getting rich.

The handlers who claim theyre hunting for a living arent taking insurance for their children, pension,401k;or retirement into consideration. Once theyre done hunting theyll have nothing. Ill stick to doing it for fun and might win a big hunt someday.

I've never known of anyone that has become rich without a tremendous amount of work. Most people never see the work they did but just the results and that's the part we envy. The single most important thing to remember is practice is delayed gratification. Most people want stuff and want it now. So they go into debt. They can't save any money because they always want more than they can afford. They never learned the value of denying oneself. If they have one spare dollar, instead of saving it until they have two or more and buying something substantial, they spend the one dollar for some piece of something and then wait until they get another dollar to buy a piece of something else. Neither of the two things add up to anything.

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Originally posted by msinc
As if that wont make you rich enough, you use the wood lathe to turn coon squallers, predator calls, coyote howlers, duck and deer calls, and that special deer one called the "wheeze, blow and puke"....they all make the exact same noise but that is no problem either because you go out and find 12 or 13 alcoholics to get on here and swear by everything you make.
Guaranteed almost overnight success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/B]

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Re: How do I make a living coon hunting?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by josh77

JOSH...

MOVE TO WISCONSIN, THEN GET A JOB, THEN FAKE LIKE YA GOT HURT AND CLAIM WORKMANS COMP AND WORK IT TIL YOU CAN GET A DISABILITY PAYMENT....THEN PUT IN FOR FOOD STAMPS, THEY WILL SEND YA A CREDIT CARD WITH 600 DOLLARS A MONTH OR SO ON IT TO BUY FOOD AND BEER.
THEN GO COONIN EVERY NITE AND SLEEP ALL DAY....

THERES AT LEAST HALF DOZEN IN EVERY COUNTY WORKIN THIS PLAN TO PERFECTION....AND THEY ARE PICKIN MUSHROOMS AND SITTIN IN THE LANDOWNERS TREESTAND WHILE EVERYBODY ELSE IS PAYING UNCLE SAM.

SOUNDS FUNNY..BUT ITS TRUE.

GOOD LUCK.

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