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Our club will be having a meat this weekend and I am interested in what kinds of formats other clubs have for this type of event?

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Mike Maggard

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Everybody pay in $10 everybody that brings in a coon put there name in a hat pull one out.Pay out should be some % so the culb can cover over head on other hunts something like 50 or 70% pay out. Don't do biggest coon or most coons if you ever want to tree one. Make the deadline when you want to go home.

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Sounds like a good format to me. Arent there anymore suggestions.

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Anymore suggestions? How long does everyone usually hunt at a meat hunt?

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We start taking up money a hour before dark they can leave when they drop off the money. Make the cut off a hour after dark. Hunt time let them hunt till about 12 AM that is about 4 or 5 hours of dark to hunt. This is more for people to take the pup give him some meat then come back and tell how he did or say the ol man showed me 4 and we gave him one.

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yea same at our club ,,,, biggest coon etc. ant worth a **** if you ask me hell ya killen alot coons just to try an get a big one... some people will disagree that killin alotta coons is killin thier hunting spots

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Thanks for the suggestions.

Mike Maggard

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Round here its a $40-$50 entry per cast (some folks buy 1 and some buy 2). Everyone that brings in a coon depending on what club the hunt is at, some assign numbered balls, while others put your name in an empty pill bottle, goes in a can or tumbler and most places let kids draw out if any are present. Deadline for entry in hunt is 5-6pm (not real sure there, we always call in mid day) and deadline to be back is between 11-12. Some clubs have a 100% payback and some 75-80%. If there is ever a big coon contest then it will always be a big coon/little coon for an extra $10 due at entry deadline. That pool is split 50-50 between whoever has the biggest and least coon. This method seems to cut down a lot on the multiple kills for the big ones. I do know around here that if its a certain amount of money guaranteed to be paid out then there is always a better turn out than just the regular weekend meat hunt. In other words just the regular weekend hunt may draw 8-10 casts, mostly us same old people every weekend, where a $500 hunt will get maybe 13-18 casts, a $1000 hunt will bring in 20 or more casts, and twice a year a local feed store has a $5000 hunt that always gets over a 100 casts. Not sure if any of its the right way just seems to be the way they are ran around here.

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