Registered: Feb 2012
Location: airville,pa
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Originally posted by Doug Robinson
We certainly don't have a shortage of coon and I know you and I have killed a few over the years and the next year the numbers are the same so we know its a healthy balance. I just worry about disease but I guess the Fisher Cat that has moved into the area recently and the highways may just take up the slack. We generally take between 60 and 90 a yr but I think we have bout 30 in freezer this yr I like to knock some down for the young dogs so it all works out. Portions of the South have a low population so I understand where everybody is coming from. I was taught to skin everything I shot. I heard one local Bluetick man in my area is shooting them and leaving in the woods. Free meals for a coyote population explosion!

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warsaw, New York
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Originally posted by pamjohnson
just skinning them don't take the meal away from the coyote.

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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Paragon IN
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I have skinned my coon in the woods and left the carcus behind for many years and many times I have walked back through the same area in a week or 2 and have never seen where a coyote ate on a coon carcus-no idea why as deer guts will be cleaned up the same night.
As to prices I too hope they stay very low. I knock some out to the dogs for a reward and as a matter of ethics, if I kill it, I'm going to skin it and market it if its $1 or $20, but $1 sure frees up the woods for me to enjoy the most!

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Registered: Jul 2014
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I see nothing wrong with harvesting coon. If I harvest them I put them up and sell them. I take pride in putting up fur and like seeing well handled pelts heading off to the buyer.

I wouldn't worry too much about harvest having an impact on population. If you have habitat you will have the coon. Look at areas with heavy trapping/hunting pressure, i.e. sections of the Midwest, the coon generally seem to be back to high population levels the next year. The greatest threat to coon populations in my opinion is not trappers or hunters, but mother nature. If people are not harvesting coon it is only a matter of time before overpopulation occurs and disease will thin them back. A hard shot of disease can really drop a population for a few years.

I am pretty sure I said this before on here, but this year is a great year to learn how to put up your coon if you have never done it. Put up fur gives you more marketing options and brings you more money in the long run. Better to learn on and mess up some $5 coon than it is to mess up some $25 coon. Plenty of books, DVD's, and You Tube videos out there on fur handling that can walk you through it. Not hard once you get the hang of it.

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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Dansville,MI
Posts: 419

Coons averaged 6.00 at one of our state sales today.

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