Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warsaw Illinois
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i have treed a few of them over the years, usually a big boar,what is everyones take on this somewhat rariety, do you think it is from fighting other boars,or are they born like this.

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You know Tony I really don't know? I have treed a couple over the past few years that have been bobbed. They too where males and big ones. Now one tail looked natural and the other had a crook at the end of its bob. COuld be a gentic thing, or could have broke at a early age and rotted off. I have always been curious myself.

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I have trapped one coon without a tail and one with a short crooked tail, the crooked one was also all hutched back and gimpy looking, I do believe this one was the survior of a automobile flattening. LOL

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I agree, I have also treed 3 or 4 over the last few yrs and they are always big boars. You would think if it was a genetic thing then you would run across some easy treeing small coon with bobtails. They all have to be young and dumb at sometime. I lean more torward something that happened as an adult, maybe a fight or accident or something that made them a little wizer so they could get that big.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Morrison TN
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Or it could be a product of doubling the tail back up underneath the coon when you take a picture

LMBO.

Just goin on with ya. I never killed any bobbed tailed coons but I would think just about anything could make them that way (traps etc) and some would probably be born that way too.

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I treed a few last year. We killed a 3 legged coyote the other day. One of his front legs was gone up at the shoulder. Didn't know it until the dogs bayed it up.

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Every bobtailed coon i ever treed was a big boar also.

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Maybe ????????????? as I also have seen several and also some with a missing foot......... I always thought they had a meeting with a steel trap and chewed off the foot or tail to get away.........

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The last bobtailed coon I treed had a little hook on his tail bone, like some dogs with a crooked tail. His tail bone turned under right at the tip.

I say treed, actually they caught him on the ground and fought him a while until he finally got up a small hedge bush.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warsaw Illinois
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Always being big boars leads me to believe this occured fighting other boars. of the ones i have treed they have always been healed up though which makes me wonder. My 13 mo old pup treed this one by himself last night, i really like this pup!.
Kent them three legged coyotes sure dont run like it though do they lol. I am wanting to get up there for a hunt with you guys next week if you can fit it in.
Fortunately i don' t know of anyone that traps around home anymore so i dont believe this is what is happening.

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man i my dogs treed one the other night it was also a big boar coon looks just like that coon i was wandering why his tail was like that to.

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I treed one several years ago. Had a friend tree one up in Greenbrier County a couple of years after that and they were both boars too. Always wondered what happened to their tails.

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Tony,
I have treed probably 7 or 8 since opening day or last coon season. All were big boars but two, there were 2 sows that I harvested. Have no idea either as to the cause of it. We have a large population of coon maybe genetic maybe something else don't really know.

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Tony last summer I live trapped a fella's barn and cought 2 big bob tail coon one male and one female both were 19lb.+ in July. The sow had old broke off teeth and scares all over it. These were close to dairy farm and I kinda thought the bob tail might have come from augers or combines ?????

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