Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Western N.Y.
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interested in what every one considers controls the coon population in your area? I am real lucky to have alot of coon and alot of real nice spots to hunt,every hunter in my area can kill 100 coon a year and never hurt the population. I hear some of you guys from K.Y. talk about needing a dog that will get a mile deep to find a track. All that beautiful timber and no coon. WHY, is it hunting pressure, lack of feed, seasons. I guess its just hard for a flat lander like me to understand why an animal as adaptable as a coon wouldnt thrive darn near anywhere in this country.

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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Kentucky
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I live in the eastern part of KY and around here there is a decent but not good population. On a good night you can tree three or four coon but will also have nights where you dont even get a bark. The main limiting factor to the coon population around here is logging. Nearly every patch of timber here has been logged at least once and most of them several times. I would say 90% of the big virgin oak timber has been cut. There is also not a lot of people that grow corn. I can only think of a couple large cornfields in the county. Hunting pressure is another major factor. Just off the top of my head I can think of about 15 hunters that live within 5 miles of my house and most of them hunt year round and kill every coon they tree. There isnt really any danger of being caught by a game warden unless your molesting an elk, they are the only animal the game wardens care about since they started restocking them in the late 90's. I wouldn't say its all bad though because there is still enough coon to enjoy hunting and I think its a better test for your dog to tree a coon in these hills than in those cornfields up north. If you find one that gets it done here then you got something to hang on to.

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coons can live anywhere.....but I don't think they can thrive in certain areas.........we have fairly tough hunting here in southwest virginia..........just ask the guys that came for our redbone fellowhship hunt two weeks ago. we don't have the agriculture that other places have so food is always a factor. we have quite of bit of hunting pressure too.....and alot of trappers........but I would say one of the biggest things is finding places to hunt. You can always hunt national forest but you better have a straight dog and one that will stick with a cold track and plan on being out late anytime you go........it's not for the faint of heart in some of those places.

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In most places here in the south the coon population is limited more by distemper than anything else. Next is the lack of late winter and early spring food sources. They can be over hunted due to low population numbers.

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Registered: Jun 2003
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also in the south: summer heat, drought, coyotes, and gators

Wild hogs are also a big problem eating up everything. It seems like they are even making the deer population decrease.

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Location: North GA
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Originally posted by john Duemmer
interested in what every one considers controls the coon population in your area?

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control the coon around some parts.if you have feed for 1 coon then you will have 1 if you got feed for 100 you will have 100.there are more coon in eastern ky than you think but it takes A COON DOG TO TREE A LOT HERE .they are more coon than coon dogs.turned loose 3 dogs tonight and all 3 dogs split treed and ALL 3 DOGS HAD A BORE COON

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Originally posted by dogboy
control the coon around some parts.if you have feed for 1 coon then you will have 1 if you got feed for 100 you will have 100.there are more coon in eastern ky than you think but it takes A COON DOG TO TREE A LOT HERE .they are more coon than coon dogs.turned loose 3 dogs tonight and all 3 dogs split treed and ALL 3 DOGS HAD A BORE COON

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Walker dogs control it around here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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LOL LOL LOL That reminds me of something. I was talking to this guy I know around here. This was about 3 years ago when Princess was in her prime. He was telling me how this certain particular hunting spot used to have coons but now they were all gone. He told me there's just no point turning loose there anymore cause there aren't anymore coons. This is nice feller and all and he hunts walker dogs. You should have seen the look on his face when i told him I turned loose there 3 times this season and saw 8 coons.

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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Pennsylvania
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I feel fortunate to have a lot of good places to hunt within very reasonable driving distances of my house. In past years me and my hunting buddy would kill well over 100 coons per year for several years and still never had a problem treeing coons year after year. I don't kill so many anymore but still enjoy a very nice coon population, I now only shoot out 10-15 per year.

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Mr Baldwin i agree with everything you said if you hit it
at the right time you can still tree coons in certain areas.
1980 the old man and me took a dog to the ky st same
area we scored 650 1 night 400 the 2nd night with out
a minus or a circle pt,since then the gov. has had corn
programs to pay farms not to raise it.the dairy have
been bought out and look at what they score today.

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