Registered: Feb 2012
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Wondering if any of you ever eat coon or ever have? Heard alot about people who love it but just never thought of it as food. 6Some guy actually wanted to buy carcasus from me for $6 each he wanted 3 or 4 of them. anyways I am willing to try anything once so what the hell could be good.
if you do eat them whats a good way to prepare and cook them?

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Registered: Mar 2010
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My in laws love it. They boiling it til it is done and batter and fry it. I am not fan of it. My husband likes it though. Sometimes my in laws bbq it. My husband's says the best way is to bbq it. He says you bake it and pour the grease off of it and then add your favorite bbq sauce.

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when I was a kid I had it at a bbq they had cooked a whole hog and bbq some coon I liked it was asking a guy the other day how to cook it he said boil it really good pull meat off bone shred it and cook it n oven with bbq sauce said if u dont boil it it's really greasy let me know if u try it how u like it

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You boil it until it is about 3/4 done and put it in the oven with carrots,potatoes,onions,salt and pepper and if you like dark meat it will be a good meal.I have tried little and big ones and the best for me is a mid sized one.

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i love em...boil them until little over half way done. put them in a browning bag like you would a turkey. 250 degrees and cook for about 5 hrs. Man you talking about good eating. no since killing something if you ain't willing to eat it every now and then. I make more off selling coon to eat than i do on the hide.

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boil it with a whole unpeeled apple a whole unpeeled potato and whole peeled onion.Boil it till it comes off the bone shred the meat put it in the smoker with your favorite bbq sauce.

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i love em...boil them until little over half way done. put them in a browning bag like you would a turkey. 250 degrees and cook for about 5 hrs. Man you talking about good eating. no since killing something if you ain't willing to eat it every now and then. I make more off selling coon to eat than i do on the hide.

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A man told me one time that the reason some of these old timers had such good hounds is because they depended on them to eat. They did not tolerate not having the meat. I guess if we really got hungry we may look at what we snap the lead too lol.

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THAT MAY BE TRUE BUT NIGHT AFTER NIGHT I CAN TREE COON WITH MY OLD DOG BUT IF I HAD TO DEPEND ON A DOG TO EAT THEN ID SELL HIM AND BUY A DEER DOG AND A HOG DOG AND LEAVE THE COONHUNTIN TO THE OLD TIMERS THAT AINT FIGURED THAT OUT YET LOL I GUESS I COULD MAKE GOOD MONEY SELLIN THESE COONS TO A NURSING HOME FOR THE OLD TIMERS HUH LMAO

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to each his own...i guess my southern up bringing is the reason why. My dad told me that yes we hunted for sport, but never kill nothing you ain't willing to eat. NO i don't eat every coon i kill. But i give them or sell them to people who do eat them. I have been blessed enough not to have to depend on my dogs to eat and i pray that i never have to get to that place. I leave over half of my coon sitting, and if i dont know someone who wants them i don't kill them. thats just me..not saying anyone has to agree.

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to each his own...i guess my southern up bringing is the reason why. My dad told me that yes we hunted for sport, but never kill nothing you ain't willing to eat. NO i don't eat every coon i kill. But i give them or sell them to people who do eat them. I have been blessed enough not to have to depend on my dogs to eat and i pray that i never have to get to that place. I leave over half of my coon sitting, and if i dont know someone who wants them i don't kill them. thats just me..not saying anyone has to agree.

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to each his own...i guess my southern up bringing is the reason why. My dad told me that yes we hunted for sport, but never kill nothing you ain't willing to eat. NO i don't eat every coon i kill. But i give them or sell them to people who do eat them. I have been blessed enough not to have to depend on my dogs to eat and i pray that i never have to get to that place. I leave over half of my coon sitting, and if i dont know someone who wants them i don't kill them. thats just me..not saying anyone has to agree.

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Thanks for all the recipes and ideas. I am willing to try anything and I have never found a type of meat yet that I flat out just dont like so I am going to give it a try.

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I pray that I never get that hungry.

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ive been that hungry. as we say round here, its better than snowballs lol. people has been eating coons for hundreds of years,i dont reckon its ever hurt em none.

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ive been that hungry. as we say round here, its better than snowballs lol. people has been eating coons for hundreds of years,i dont reckon its ever hurt em none.

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lol ats funny. i aint never got sick from eating coons lol. when i was alot younger we used to eat squirrel brains lol. we skint the heads, put em in a pot of water, boil em and take a spoon and crack the skulls open and pull out the brain lol. the dont taste like chicken either lol, they tasted lot like liver lol.

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I've eaten several coon. Some were ok some were bad. But my buddy, who has never liked coon, gave me a recipe the other day.

Take a coon, put it in a pot.
Cover in a marinade of dirt, horse manure, and fox piss.
Cook.
Then throw the coon out and eat the horse crap.

He thinks that tastes better than any coon he has ever eaten...LOL!

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mr skeets, i still eat the squirrel brains. The most fun i have had hunting in a LOOOONG time has been hunting squirrels with dogs. NOW that is some good eating

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I have eat coon barbecued before. It was pretty good. My opinion is that there is to much chicken in the store than to be eating coons.

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i like it fried and it is ok we have a wild game feed every year and coon is on the list every year.

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One of the guys I hunt with eats them regularly. I noticed in an earlier post that someone had pointed out removing the glands under the front legs and near the crotch. If you're gonna cook the whole carcass that is a MUST or it will be pretty much inedible. In addition, he always checks the color of the meat on the hind legs as we are skinning. If it is really dark red or almost purple he feeds it to his dogs, claims they are too old and tough for good eating.
I have eaten coon several times, and if it is prepared correctly it is decent wild game. The prep time to get it to the point of being "decent" table fare just seems like too much work. If it was really good then it might be worth the time and energy it takes to do it right. Coon is head and shoulders above possum! Doesn't matter how you cook it blechhhhhhhh pteweeyyyy!

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Registered: Nov 2009
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After years of skinning them I always said I would never eat one. too greasy. Then this past weekend I had a bbq coon sandwich. It was really good. I can tell ya, from now on, I will eat them.

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boil it put a lil red pepper in the water for about 20 min or so and then put it in a baking dish and put some half cooked bacon on it and put som onions and sweet patotes and a lil brown sugar on it with some carrots . man that will be so good it will make your tounge slap your brain out of your head .lol

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Registered: Oct 2006
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An old man that we belonged to Lodge with cooked several for our game dinner nite every year until he passed. He said you had to throw away the front arms, cook med to small ones. The coon that man cooked was ok, dark meat, and not greasy.
Do not know how he cooked it.

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