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Good and bad hunting

I'm in NC and we are not really in heavy coons where I'm at I was wondering where across the U.S. are coons thick and where are places where the coons are thin?

I'm in Burlington and I would say "not really in heavy coons" is an understatement!

I come from the land of "milk and honey" as far as coon hunting is concerned... Northern Indiana. But I think the answer to your question is not state or region specific.

The answer to where thick coon are, is where they have plenty of food, water and a place to sleep. So you're going to need:

- Heavier timber with hardwoods, so they have a place to live (hollow trees etc.) out of the weather and away from predators.

- Plenty of running water, so it doesn't get stagnate... creeks, rivers, etc.

- Plenty of food, like grain fields, predominantly corn. With a mix of berries, like wild cherries, raspberries, and mulberries.

When you look to the Midwest, like Indiana, all these things are around every corner. Small patches of oaks and cherries, with a ditch nearby, surrounded by a cornfield. And where you have that, coon will proliferate.

Places in the South and West, have pockets of several factors, but not all the factors, everywhere. So there are some woods with "plenty" of coon, but not tons of coon.

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BTW... there will always be thicker coon, where we don't "hunt" coon! Death or just hunting pressure, can decimate a population. Unless you have over-population nearby, to come fill-in the blanks.

That's mostly what happened back home... you could try to wipe the coon out of a woods (at the request of some landowners), but they would quickly re-populate.

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