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Years ago my friend had a really experienced Pit, a real azzhole actually. One day a huge Raccoon climbed the fence and fell into the dogs yard, it was a fight that went on for quite awhile, the dog finally killed it but was leaking all over.
About a year later another coon fell into the yard and the dog was abit more cautious about going with it and it managed to escape.

The neighbors dog last night had a fight with one here, he's a big dog Rottweiler cross, there was blood, it wasn't the dogs blood, Coon managed to escape.
Coons only been here around 20 years, never saw one until then, I have shot 3 of the fuggers the last 3 months.

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A big coon would have wooled that little dog around and escaped pretty easily. And yes have seen coons take a dog underwater dragging them down by the head. Buddy had one nearly drowned that way heard the dog gasp when he came up . Crawled out on the bank and wanted no more of Mr Coon. He was a good dog too and the only time we ever saw him back off from a fight.

We know that Rip was killed that way.

thankyou Hawkeye gonna watch that one again

Mutt lost an eye to a coon when he was younger, never saw a dog hated a coon more. Burn one out of the top of a tree and he would whip the other dogs to get the kill bite. By the way, you did not come up on his blind side, but once...

Blueticks that know their business, get a grip on the chest and shake the life right out of a coon, crush the ribs and basically keep him from breathing.

Old men used to love to hear the dogs strike cold, figure it out and go from trail to tree across a creek bottom. Shine and squall till the coon looks, then use that old 12 gauge to make him jump and watch the fight.

Spring Creek bottom has a smell that takes me back to Greenbrier coats, shooting stars and navigating cypress knee swamps.

Did anyone else notice that the littermate made tracks out of there while the other one was fighting the dog?

My grandfather was a finish carpenter. He would get layed of or quit in the fall. At the time coyotes were uncommon. Lots of fox. He would trap the usual critters. I have fond memories of going with him. At one time he would use car exhaust to kill skunks and skin them.
He wrote a small book with help " Oscar Nelson 60 Years a North Dakota Trapper". He would teach people to trap and they would stay at his house. At one time he was on Praire Public TV. He would weigh fox a good one was 15 pounds he said the biggest coon he ever caught was 50 pounds. He loved lefsa and luttifisk. I remember he had a set in a culvert and I was quit young he said "take a look in there" I looked in the culvert and a big coon scared the pudding out of me. He thought it was funny. If you do a search you will find reference to the book. My father was killed in a car accident when I was a baby so I spent alot of time with my grandfather's.

About 20 years ago, I saw one try. We were pheasant hunting in eastern SD and this happened down at a small slough. We were able to get the dog apart from the coon to apply a 12 gauge. The coon wasn't quite big enough to hold her under the water for too long.

So, nobody got the Twilight Zone reference?

Ok I'm guessing are you referring to the astronauts landing on an asteroid and the one kills a couple the others and makes tracks cause he thinks he has a better chance surviving on his own.

No. The episode titled The Hunt. It's about a coon hunter and his coon hound. The coon hound (Rip) ran after the coon when it went into the crick. Hunter said, "Stop, Rip. That coon'll drown you." He jumps in to save Rip, but both are drowned. They don't know they both drowned, though, as they both woke up together by the crick. The man's main worry is that his wife will be pissed off that he stayed out all night, and they both headed home. He gradually comes to realize that he and Rip had died, and that they were both spirits.

Perhaps my favorite Twilight Zone episode. Back in the Wild West days of YouTube, you could watch any episode of Twilight Zone you wanted, but today you will have to rent it.

Ok thanks I tried haha

We use to live trap coon quite a bit when I was a kid. Never brought a gun since we had a giant mean Chesapeake. Like a 135lb dog. He'd flip the trap over and the fight was usually over in minutes. He went for the chest and neck. Got into a 40 pounder one night. That fight lasted a long time. The coon kept luring him into the stock dam and my father would pull the dog out by his tail. He sent me running for a gun but by the time I got back the dog had won. He mounted the coon. That fall, the dog killed close to a thousand coon. He was in shape.

It was a fair fight. Nobody should complain. My GSD does it faster, but that little guy was tough.

Sounds like a fugking pussy to me. A lab will eat anything. And a pit will bite anything. Am I wrong?

And your stupid mutt won’t even kill a stoopid raccoon.


Wow. You played your own banjo music. Good job.

*Edit: that’s going to be my new slam***

Damn. My last dog took hours. Yours must be a good one.

I live on a farm and see coons several times a week. I've owned dogs up to the size of a large black lab. I've seen plenty of dogs take on a coon, but I've never seen a lone dog who could whip a full grown male coon.

I have a Catahoula that kills huge coons on a regular basis.
One on one.

Back when I was going to college, my BIL had a shephard/collie mix that was bigger than either breed - probably 130+ lbs. His name was Smokey and he was a beautiful dog. One day my BIL had a coon up in a tree outside his house, and he wanted me to hold a trashcan underneath with a lid ready to catch it while he climbed up the tree and shook it out. He wanted to use it to train his young Treeing Walker coon hound.

Well, I had some misgivings, but I went along and stood under the coon. As he got close to the branch where the coon was, it jumped out and easily missed my half-hearted attempts to catch it. But Smokey was right there, and pounced and picked up the coon and crunched it and shook it once and it was over. Dead coon. Not a huge boar coon, but a full sized coon. Just glad that dog wasn't aggressive towards people, he was a great dog.

I had a GSP bird dog, that killed a mature coon that had entered his pen one night. Not a scratch. He also killed a possum with the same tactic Smokey used. Grab their ribs from above and pick them up and crunch and shake. I believe there are plenty of dogs that can take out a full grown male coon pretty easily. They just got to want to.