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This is neat, here in the South, alot of People like to BBQ and Bake Racoon meat.

Our Meat Markets have been getting Shipments of Skinned Coons, and Selling them. They are buying them by the Truck Load.
They say they were killed out of Northern Cornfields.
They wont buy any of our Southern Coon, because they say they are too small. I dont know what all states they have bought them from, but I have heard alot about Iowa.
Just wanted to post that, if you didnt know.
I bet alot of those Coons were treed with Hounds.

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I know if they started buying my coon, the fox and yotes would be going hungry around my house! lol

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You couldnt pay me to eat coon meat.

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Selling wild game meat is very illegal.

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TRYED IT ONE TIME.........ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD TASTE LIKE, PREPARED IT JUST LIKE MAKING SQUIRELL GRAVY, WONT TO BAD BUT NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO EAT ALL THE TIME!!

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I have skun everything that can be hunted around here and nothing is as foul, wormy and unsavory as a coon. But it is a well known fact that some people will eat anything. And apparently alot of them live in Texas.

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I bet alot of people have had Racoon BBQ and not even known it.
It is not Illiegal to Sell a Racoon Carcass, if you have the propper license.
Anyway they are stocked up in alot of our local Meat Markets, and there was even an article about it in the paper.

There is another member on this board, that makes Casarole, and Stew out of Racoon Meat.
He is an Ag teacher, his students ate double helpings of both of them unaware of what they were eating. They loved it. LOL

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It is a shame you kill something you will not eat. Coon is good food if you know how to cook it.

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You couldnt pay me to eat coon meat.

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I've killed alot of rats in my time and never felt shamed that I didn't eat them.

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In Mn possesion of wild game meat will get you in trouble if you dont have a deer liscense to go with it.

Im guessing they dont want to create a financial insentive to take game illegaly.

"buying coon by the trucklod"...sure sounds like a red flag, as to the how leagaly these carcases were obtained.

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I would try about anything that is safe to eat. I prefer a twelve ounce top loin about an inch thick charcoaled on the grill.

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i fry the young ones,,pressure cook and then bar b que the old ones ,,i think its better than groundhog myself

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"buying coon by the truckload" sounds like a truckload of bs to me.

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Buy a cow you sick old men

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THE LOCAL FISHMARKET HERE ON THE RIVER IN SAVANNA IL. GIVES A BUCK AND A HALF A PIECE FOR THEM AND CAN NEVER KEEP ENOUGH ON HAND. I USED TO HAVE A PHONE # FOR A MAN FROM CHICAGO, HE'D COME OUT TWICE A SEASON AND PICK UP 100 TO 150 CARCASSES EACH TIME. WHEN WE SELL THEM TO THE FISHMARKET, YOU HAVE TO LEAVE 1 BACK FOOT ON THEM. V.

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Personally I think it is Awesome that the meat is sold and USED! We TRIED to cook the coon we had to trap here that was killing our chickens. Last minute I Wimped out... Ill try it someday when someone Else prepares it and cooks it... I couldn't get past the fat and that was SUMMER.... the chickens willingly ate it though.... I am too used to buying my meat at the store prepackaged I guess. If you are raised on a farm or doing lots of hunting it must be easier.

Anyway, I think it's great if there are areas with TOO many coon and they are hunted and killed that they be used.

To each his won on what they eat. I raise chickens and can't sand eatting chicken most of the time... it grosses me out as much as the thought of eating Rat.. but I'd eat clean rat if I had too.... its ALL animals... if it doesn't STINK... or taste gross and it's not HUMAN... then to each his or her own!
Just so long as ALL the coon aren't killed off then power to the buyers and sellers!

HappyHunting and eating Heather

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THE LOCAL FISHMARKET HERE ON THE RIVER IN SAVANNA IL. GIVES A BUCK AND A HALF A PIECE FOR THEM AND CAN NEVER KEEP ENOUGH ON HAND. I USED TO HAVE A PHONE # FOR A MAN FROM CHICAGO, HE'D COME OUT TWICE A SEASON AND PICK UP 100 TO 150 CARCASSES EACH TIME. WHEN WE SELL THEM TO THE FISHMARKET, YOU HAVE TO LEAVE 1 BACK FOOT ON THEM. V.

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Here is what would turn me off from buying carcass coon. Lets say "Joe Hunter" goes out and harvests two prime coon, however "Joe" lives 20 minutes from the local buyer and doesnt want to make a special trip to sell just two. So instead of gutting and bucthering the coon they just set in the bed of the pickup for a couple more days. Finally, the coon get sold to the local buyer and possibly set around for a couple more days before getting bucthered. Lastly, some poor soul points their loaded pickup full of carcass coon south for a day drive. By now you should see my point that this meat market is not sanitary or "fresh" by no means.


Dont let anybody fool you that they are selling carcass coon for gator bait.

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GREEN BELLIES. THE BELLY MEAT WILL BE GREEN IF THEY'VE LAID AROUND AT ALL. GUT JUICES SEEPIN FROM THE INSIDE OUT. MMMMM GOOD. REMEMBER THAT THE NEXT WILD GAME FEED YOU ATTEND. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE SERVING MUSKRAT, BEAVER AND SUCH. COULD THEY HAVE COME OUT OF A FUR BUYERS CARCASS PILE. MAAAYBBEEE?

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"buying coon by the truckload" sounds like a truckload of bs to me.

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It is illegal in Minnesota to sell wild game meat, but I ain't saying it is not happening! I personally have not heard of anyone buying.

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Down in mississippi sell all you can get 4 sucks a piece.

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I definantly believe everything you said Richard. I know a fur buyer that ships truckloads down south(Lousiania, Miss. area). Legal? I am not sure exactly, I also know a black gentleman that always wanted me to get him a young one but I always forgot about him before skinning them. I have gave a few to a black women once though and was told she would take all that I would give her. I myself would probably never try it but know a few people that have. My grandfather died a few years ago at 99 years of age, and you would not believe all the stuff he said he had ate in his lifetime.

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My dad grew up in pool halls and bowling alleys (grandpa was an entrepreneur) and told me stories about grandps selling coons out of the back kithchen to some colored guys from down south he had met in his railroading days. Every winter they would come up from Omaha and KC, pay gramps some cash and fill the trunks of their cars with coon. Now this would have been in the late 50's early 60's. I have ate it several times and it is not bad. if i was ever starving or broke I'm sure I could subsist on coon meat . theres an old guy down the street from me that always tells me to bring him some coons but I never do. I should prolly take him one sometime.

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