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I have heard several rumors of Indiana going to longer kill season.
Even heard two guys say maybe even year around.
I personally would hate to see year around but would like to see it lengthened maybe start October 1st.
Is anybody else hearing this and do you have any facts?

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the new seasons are posted on the dnr site ,same as this year

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Fur would be no good to extend the season thru Feb and a lot of years the weather would knock out the northern half of the state.. Would hate to see it open in March as i'd hate to knock out a wet sow.. Just hate that..

opening early does little good as the deer hunters have things pretty well shut down from Oct on..

Don't really know if there's any benefit to it..

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Ark has a year around kill season I say year around it shuts down for a few months when kits are born and opens back up i think in july its a one a night only kill and it has worked for them

i really wish oklahoma would open our season up like that also.

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Ark has a year around kill season I say year around it shuts down for a few months when kits are born and opens back up i think in july its a one a night only kill and it has worked for them

i really wish oklahoma would open our season up like that also.

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I really like how Arkansas does it. I don't want to kill a wet sow either or even every coon my dogs tree!! But every farmer I ask permission to hunt on says I can only hunt if I kill every coon I tree. I don't do that, but that is their request!!!!

I just got busted shooting a kitten coon along a corn field where I had permission to hunt in October. It's a Class "C" Misdemeanor, they can take you to jail and take every thing you have on you at the time. I paid $330 to get into the deferral program and another $80 for the 24 hours of community service I have to do.

I personally think this is a bit much for killing a coon that is on property where a farmer wants you to kill them for destroying their crops.

Just my opinion...you can rant and rave all you want at me and tell me how wrong I am, but you will never change my mind!!

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Can't the land owner get a kill permit for crop damage? Here in Va I know they can get a kill permit, I use to hunt a sweet corn patch a man raised to sell and he had the permit.

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Thanks for the responses as for the seasons on the dnr website that don't mean much because most changes usually are not announced till July 1st in Indiana. I will add that it makes no sense that our coon season Is shorter than most everything else including deer.

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I would maybe go for a 1 a night bag limit year round. I'm sure this won't be popular, but I think killing a bunch of coon to train a dog is overrated. I would also say that it wouldn't bother me if the price on furs never went over $1.

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I would maybe go for a 1 a night bag limit year round. I'm sure this won't be popular, but I think killing a bunch of coon to train a dog is overrated. I would also say that it wouldn't bother me if the price on furs never went over $1.

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I would maybe go for a 1 a night bag limit year round. I'm sure this won't be popular, but I think killing a bunch of coon to train a dog is overrated. I would also say that it wouldn't bother me if the price on furs never went over $1.

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It's only overrated to those who have no trained good ones grasshopper

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It's only overrated to those who have no trained good ones grasshopper

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That is me!!!! The coon I shot in October was to a 5 month old pup!!! I NEED A GOOD ONE!!!!

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Dwils....how many coon do you have to kill to "train" a "good" one? I am eager to learn.

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Dwils....how many coon do you have to kill to "train" a "good" one? I am eager to learn.

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Just depends what you condition/train them to be the "reward."

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Just depends what you condition/train them to be the "reward."

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If you are not "rewarding" them with a coon to reinforce a particular behavior...ie treeing them...then what are you doing it for? Do you have a freezer full of coon meat that you feed your family with?

Some of the most highly trained "working" dogs are drug/police dogs. Funny I have never seen one locate a bag of dope and the trainer/handler pop open the bag and give it to the dog.

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If you are not "rewarding" them with a coon to reinforce a particular behavior...ie treeing them...then what are you doing it for? Do you have a freezer full of coon meat that you feed your family with?

Some of the most highly trained "working" dogs are drug/police dogs. Funny I have never seen one locate a bag a dope and the trainer/handler pop open the bag and give it to the dog.

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I think they should leave it alone In. fur no good in oct why kill coon and leave them lay thats a waste and about the reward thats funny if my dog don't know there's a coon in the tree he on he can't eat my feed any dog can tree a coon but a dog with brains know he there

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Buckbrush, i'm with you..can't imagine hunting seriously and not knocking coon out to a hound and when it's hide season I'd prefer to knock out a bunch.. But I was raised a hide hunter and a fur trapper and that is what I enjoy out of the game.. Love to see a dog really dialed in and knocking 4,6,12, 20 or whatever he trees in a night, shoot i've killed as many in a night in years past as I did all last season.. Dog power is a bit different .

First i've hunted these IN woods in the last five years, but it appears there is no shortage of coon.. Years past we would take between 100-300 coon off the same ground each year for many years..

Always had a decent hound or two and some years made some significant money from fur or selling a young dog

This past year I only killed 22-23 coon alone to a young dog i was hunting and probably that many hunting with other folks.. Trapped another 40 and a few fox..

Bet I kill double that off the same ground next year as i'll be hunting a finished hound instead of a pup..

Be nice to knock a few out this spring and summer legally, but don't figure that is possible..

Appreciate the efforst of HTDA working for the houndsmen.. And the years the weather cooperates id surely like to hunt later, but wouldn't kill a lot of fur as our coons are generally badly rubbed by now.

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I've trained a few pretty good dogs. I've never once killed a coon to dog and seen it change the dog. Bellar was unhappy with me every time he called to see how Harry was doing. Hunted him 6 months killed 3 coons, made him nt. ch. 4 wins to gr. they picked him up and won world hunt.

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I kill them simply because I enjoy it. I don't think it makes much diff in a dog. Dog slicks 4 times,trees coon,then will slick again. Or dog rarely misses whether it has one shot out or not. I don't think there is a right to wrong answer. I have tried to make them extinct for 30 yrs. hopefully I have another 40 yrs to work on it. I am one of the few self admitting coon killers. Now burn me at the stake LOL

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All these hunters that cry around carry a gun every night season or not are not much of a Sportsman. Lord a lot of these guys screw up dogs giving them so many coons. Just make them into a dog that will tree up a light pole The Best tree dogs I every seen were from hide hunters in Ohio that didn't let there dog have the coon. I would try to tease a dog before feeding his gut with them. Lord I have hunted 40 years I never put out but one a night, My old dogs cant count here in Ky were most of the coon dogs were born.

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Just me thinkin but I think every dog is different my male could care less to chew on a coon but my female I've noticed this last month with a bunch of dens and not getting her fill of coon to play with gets a little lose on the tree. If I was a coondog and busted my butt I'd be a little upset if all I got was a little pat on the head and a "thata boy". But there are places that I hunt in the summer that the farmers won't let me hunt during season cause of deer. So it all works out.

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All these hunters that cry around carry a gun every night season or not are not much of a Sportsman. Lord a lot of these guys screw up dogs giving them so many coons. Just make them into a dog that will tree up a light pole The Best tree dogs I every seen were from hide hunters in Ohio that didn't let there dog have the coon. I would try to tease a dog before feeding his gut with them. Lord I have hunted 40 years I never put out but one a night, My old dogs cant count here in Ky were most of the coon dogs were born.

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I've trained a few pretty good dogs. I've never once killed a coon to dog and seen it change the dog. Bellar was unhappy with me every time he called to see how Harry was doing. Hunted him 6 months killed 3 coons, made him nt. ch. 4 wins to gr. they picked him up and won world hunt.

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