Registered: Jan 2013
Location: Indiana
Posts: 414

I don't coon hunt to make money off of hides at all, but what are the prices of coons going for? I had a fur buyer who was only going to give me $2.00 a hide.

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Registered: Jul 2013
Location: Russiaville, IN
Posts: 42

I had a buddy sell 15 and averaged 3.90 a coon overall. I've heard of even lower prices than that.

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Registered: Feb 2013
Location: Indiana
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Originally posted by black&tan87
I had a buddy sell 15 and averaged 3.90 a coon overall. I've heard of even lower prices than that.

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Pendleton, IN
Posts: 1365

They are much more valuable if left in the tree, at least for me. Hard to put a price on having woods where you can put a young dog and know that most of the time you are going to hit a good track, even on bad nights.

Visiting the in laws this weekend and was chatting with a cousin who had told me he and a buddy started coon hunting. He proceeded to tell me that they had killed 27 one night (wether they did or not, who knows?). He was pretty proud and included they sold them and got around $4 a hide ($108). I think I surprised him when I told him it would take me 3 years to kill that many.

To each his own on killing coons (and I am not opposed to people killing them), but it seems like I would have to kill a whole lot of coon to even get close to what I can get for a good young dog that trees its own coon. Let's say low end being $1000 depending on ability, breeding, and chrome perhaps all the way up to $10k or more. Heck, @$5 a coon, it would take 200 coon to make a $1k and 2000 hides to make $10k.

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Registered: Aug 2005
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I agree with you 100% Wes.

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Registered: Feb 2013
Location: indiana
Posts: 280

First batch I sold a averaged 4.50 a coon. The second batch I averaged 6.50.

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Registered: Jul 2013
Location: Russiaville, IN
Posts: 42

I only shoot them out for pups or every now and again to an older dog. Heck the .22 bullet is worth more than the coon. It's better to leave em.

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Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 2027

Leave em and tree em again

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Registered: Mar 2012
Location: sw m.o
Posts: 96

id rather chase them over and over than give them away!

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