Registered: Aug 2008
Location: Ky.
Posts: 407

Well as of last nite of looking on here an as i hear all the time around here people just just find a coon setting up an drop him ,,, i know people personaly that does .whats the point of that ,,, its none sense seriously.... i men it dont make me mad cause people can do what they want but why would anybody just want to shoot coons out just by shinen thier light around see 6 set of eyes an run over an shoot um out.....Well to me thats not a real coonhunter thats just dumbass...... would i be a deer hunter if i rode around with a spot light an shoot deer that would be unethicel hunter,,,NO,,,, so what does people get out doin that ,,,, i could see if you was eatin um or whatever....... What do others think about this stupid thing some do?? Thanks

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Edgewood, IA
Posts: 303

Personally I don't care. Some areas have too many coon. I'd rather someone shoots them to keep their numbers down than put out poison that my dog could get into. I have places that I hunt that want them dead. If you're not killing them the landowner is mad. I'd much rather have my dog tree them though. I had a place before that I was running my dog in during the summer. The farmer came along one night and didn't understand why I wasn't carrying a rifle.

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Indiana
Posts: 75

Hey I know what you are talking about , we have a dog trader here in town that shots out every coon he sees I guess it's just bragging rights. He most of the time dumps a couple of young kids out in a woods with a fully charged light and the way they go shinning every tree they walk by. If you happen to drive by and look you would sweer that you was driving past an airport with all the lights shinning in the sky. Don't see much sport in that!

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Registered: Sep 2009
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shooting coon out without dogs treeing them arent coon hunters. they are hide hunters and are looking for the money they get for the hides. this overloads the market with too many furs and this causes lower prices for hides.

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Registered: Dec 2009
Location: Floyd Co Va
Posts: 180

I'm not in it for the kill i'm in it for the dog and if my dog ain't treeing them it does them no good ,personaly I like having a bunch of coons

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im with floyd 10000000%

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Indiana
Posts: 75

I'm with you also, nothing wrong with alot of coon, mother nature will control the population. To me a dog does't need every coon he trees, just a pat on the head and tell them good job lets find another one and go on.

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Registered: May 2004
Location: Sullivan IL.
Posts: 3060

You would be surprised how of your club mebers do the same thing! We all have them, the guys that always treeing coon when you know your self that the coon treeing is very had going and the guys that tree 75 to 100 coons a season but yet they never tree a coon when you gop with them or never hunt in your club events. Yes their dog may tree the coon after walking them past it and patting the tree but is that really hunting. LOL

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Thorndale,Pa
Posts: 316

I only have limited spots to hunt and the hides are not worth hardly anything. So a dead coon is a coon that i will never run again,And only get about $3 to $5 for if i'm lucky. But on the other hand i do have one spot that the guy has some game birds and what ever time of the year i'm in there he wants me carrying iron.So i guess i'm in the middle of the road here. Between me and a buddy i hunt with, we have only took around 35 coons and have left alot more to run again... But i have not and never will shoot a coon that a dog has not treed....

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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Indiana
Posts: 75

What gets me is these people that kill 30/40 coon a night the first 2 or 3 weeks of season and have a furbuyer show up at there house the end of November and buy all these coon without looking at each and every one of them. You know as well as I do that most of these coon are blue and the furbuyer buys them. Now I didn't know that there was a market for blue hides.

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Registered: Jun 2007
Location: lima ohio
Posts: 262

one night i was hunting with some guys, and we went to this spot, got out, i was getting ready to get my dog and they tell me not to, ended up walking around the woods with this screaming caller so they could shine trees and look for eyes, i thought it was stupid, they didn't shoot one cause they never saw eyes but it was still dumb , i saw no point in walking around a woods so you can shine a worthless$ coon and shoot it out to no dogs, and heck we probably could have treed some with the dogs ,

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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Coatesville Indiana
Posts: 545

Well anybody that respects our sport and is interested in passing it on to this next generation SHOULD care. It does make me mad and it is senseless for someone to do that.A person that would do that needs professional help. No wonder there are so many Anti groups out there.They see nut cases like this and think we are all that brain dead!! This is just my opinion however and if yours is different "Happy Shining".

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Registered: Feb 2010
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In minesota the coon has to be treed or put at bay by dogs for it to be legal to shoot

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Registered: Apr 2009
Location: texas
Posts: 100

This is one of the first things I was taught as a boy.If the dog doesn`t tree it ,then you don`t shoot it out! as a kid I wasn`t even allowed to shine up any trees with the dogs anywhere close,for fear of making a young dog tree up the tree you were shining.

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