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seen a road kill lastnite on us 30 pick another one up on the road friday after noon on 875 west just down from the house so the moon dont mean nothing

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seen a road kill lastnite on us 30 pick another one up on the road friday after noon on 875 west just down from the house so the moon dont mean nothing

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Joe what is the reason that you think coons aren't moving too well right now? I hunt big timber and usually my dog has a pretty easy time in there. Lately she has been going deep just to strike a track. Seems like the coon are gone but there is too many in there for me to believe they are gone. I'm the only one that hunts it because its rough walking a lot of cliffs and hollers. It's really got me stumped though. I dont get it. There is a big river that goes through it and tons of den trees. The woods has never been logged.

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Our coon have been movin real early (half dark) and then the tracks seem to disappear until about 11 oclock or later. Alot of real short 100 yard tracks.we usually only knock out a couple a night and they are carrying more fat than i have ever seen. Not seein many small kits, even the doubles and triples that you know are this years coon are good sized coon. Last years extremly mild winter must have let them get bred early.

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with most of the midwest havin such dry weather this year wouldnt the coon population b suffering? i no if i lived there i would b concerned about how many coon i shot out this year maybe? here were i live we had a fair amount of rain a number of years in a row now n the population seems strong.

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What a great topic! To tell ya the truth I've considered coon habits. I keep a journal & record the results. How many tracks, tree's, coon seen, weather etc. I've also started marking all the spots I tree in just to see if I could come up with a pattern. Over the last 2 yrs I've really started paying attention to this. I was training my hound and noticed that in the main 80 acres I hunted him in that it seemed like the coons either left or I shot to many out. Then I found out that about 1/2 a mile away someone had trapped 25 in one night because they were killing his chickens. So that threw another factor in the equation! Then last spring all the way till last month it was back to tree'n one after another in this same small plot. I chalked it up to sows having kittens and the abundance of dew berries. After reading what some of you have wrote on here now I'm re-thinking it and considering making some den boxes in this same plot of land to see if it makes a difference. The den boxes make sense to me. Any thoughts of trees etc to plant as a winter food source? I live in east central Mississippi! On another note I regularly check the local game forecast and it seems to be correct maybe a little over 50% of the time. I learned from keeping a record of my hunts that I seem to have better luck on foggy nights or nights the smoke from the chimney hangs low. I believe this is due to better scent conditions though more so than the actual weather.

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i KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT TEHM IN THE 1970S PRICES WERE LIKE TOPS OVER 30 DOLLARS TEHY WERE HUNTED HARD THEY WERE HUNTED HARD CAME BACK WHEN PARVO TOOK THEM OUT WHEN THE 1980S TEHY CAME BACK. NOW THE DROUGHT THEY DIG IN THE CREEK TILL TEHY HIT WATER OR THEY GO FIND A POND THEY ARE TOUGH CRITTERS

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What ive learned about what makes a coon move or not on a given night you could fit in a thimble. Took me over 40 years to learn that much.
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