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How do people feel the coon population is in tennessee. more specifically west tennessee? i'm working two young dogs right now so its hard for me to judge it. i hear about people killing one or two a night in my area but not usually more than that. seems like some states killing five or six a night is pretty normal.

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Registered: Feb 2012
Location: middle tenn
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We have been hunting in humphreys houston and dickson co seeing one or two a night but not hunting hard or long either one or two drops a night and then heading home I know we arent really west tn but more like west middle tn thought it might help u a lil anyway

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Registered: Apr 2011
Location: West Tennessee
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I hunt Crockett County and it's not like it was. Not as many coons I don't think. We didn't kill as many this year.

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i haven't spotlighted near as many coons as i did last year. i don't know if thats a good indicator or not. for anybody that hunts around west tennessee where is the closest place that seems to have a heavy coon population. wouldn't mind driving a couple hours and camping out and hunting for a few days and experience hunting in thick coon.

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Registered: Feb 2012
Location: middle tenn
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just got back was hunting half mile from tn river in humphreys co last night of season and didnt strike anything

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i know things are gonna be tougher this time of year, but it seemed the coons were thin back in september too

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Registered: Aug 2009
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What area of west tn you live. we hunted 3 to 4 times a week and killed 25 the first month. Just lucky I guess, we have NO dog power. This was on public land.

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What area of west tn you live. we hunted 3 to 4 times a week and killed 25 the first month. Just lucky I guess, we have NO dog power. This was on public land.

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its the same exact thing in mississippi the coons have just vanished

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Registered: Apr 2011
Location: West Tennessee
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Around here I'm pretty sure I know what's happened. Poaching and during season people killing more than the limit. One big thing i have seen lately are people taking their best dog "Spot" out. Meaning a spotlight. To me that's cheating. I hear it from everyone. So and so killed 5 coons the other night using "Spot" or they just kill and kill.

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Registered: Aug 2009
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We hunt at White Oak WMA every Saturday nite during season. Its kinda rough and deep but you can treeum in there.

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Registered: Feb 2012
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I am n arkansas & our coon population is down. I have some young dogs that need showed a cage coon so I been trappin for 2months with 6 live traps & only have caught 2 coons. Its hard on my old dog to tree 2 or 3 a week. The hound guys have about gave up til kitten coons come down this summer! I'm hunting gost coons I reck-n! We had a die off last summer (distemper was bad)

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We hunt at White Oak WMA every Saturday nite during season. Its kinda rough and deep but you can treeum in there.

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we had a die off here to lead poison. you cant kill off your seed for next season. one or two a wk suffcient. you can't run a dead one. it's either in their blood or it ain't these days. thats with 4 o5 nights hunt'n an 2or3 trees a night if in good coon population. good hunt'n

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How do people feel the coon population is in tennessee. more specifically west tennessee? i'm working two young dogs right now so its hard for me to judge it. i hear about people killing one or two a night in my area but not usually more than that. seems like some states killing five or six a night is pretty normal.

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unless your a hide hunter whats the point,,,i have several feeders out spend a few bucks feeding coon then some idiot shoots em out over the buckets..i guess in there mind there dog has acomplished some great deed .its for sure the one with a bullet between its eye brows wont b treed the nxt night go figure

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Registered: Feb 2011
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thats what happens when you have big coon contests some people not all shoot everyone out of the tree around here in east tn anyway. shame.

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Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Carroll Co. TN
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this season has been a lilttle rough for me too. didnt kill as many as i did last year and it doesnt matter whose dogs or how many dogs i go with it still seems so much harder to tree one this past season

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it will get worse an worse when you don't leave seed females, thats why when you have spot to hunt and are told to kill them all or no hunt'n, you have to manage your spots,because once you've killed them all you have no place to hunt no way.

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