Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Kentucky
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I've learned more from a trail cam and a feeder about coon movement on full moon nights than anything. About 90% of the time on full moon nights all of the pics on my cameras will come between 4am and sunrise. I sometimes will get a random coon that will feed through the night but not often, sometimes I will also get a few pics of coon that will come to the feeder right at the edge of dark and feed for a few minutes.

On really bright full moon nights I have had the best luck turning loose about twenty to thirty minutes before dark and hunting until the moon gets up high in the sky. After the moon gets up I dont have any luck at all on moonlit nights.

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I have hunted many years and had a great mentor when I started. My mentor was my Uncle, Joe Asdell from southern Indiana and he had ran fox hounds and coonhounds his entire life and didn't necessarily buy into "old wives tales". He always said that a full moon cloudless night would slow down the hunting. He also said, I have have seen this happen many times, the best time to get after a coon on a moonlight night is right after dusk or just before dawn. I have also noticed it does make a difference where you hunt; I have hunted patches in southern Michigan and northern Illinois where you couldn't hardly buy a track on moonlight night but I have also hunted dense swamps in northern Michigan where it didn't seem to make a big difference. I have treed more times along a river on moonlight nights but usaually were dens so I am guessing coons do come down to get a drink or something but they don't travel as much which reduces the window of opportunity to tree one. But I do know, to this day, I have never treed a coon in my living room, moonlight or not. If I want to go hunting, I go irregardless of what the moon is doing. I am just more careful with a young dog that I am concerned might run trash. If they want to run something and coon aren't moving, look out. Now I have expressed my opinion and any semblance between it and reality is clearly accidental.

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