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There are 2 rules to success:
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Those are some big azz coons. That looks like fun, I'm gonna have to give it a try. Lots of coons on our lease. I never heard of anybody calling them in around my area. from your pic's, looks like they come to a call pretty good.
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I get 2-4 Coons a week while hunting Coyotes, never weighed one but i mine are much smaller than Dirt Bags. Rio7
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I was fixing to say those coons are as big as coyotes. And they dang near are.
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I was fixing to say those coons are as big as coyotes. And they dang near are. You're right! I've been in on the trapping of maybe 200 'coons in TN, LA, AR and TX. Only one of those 200 was as big as the 'coons Dirt Bag is killing regularly. Those are some monsters! And I've never seen a 'coon so well-furred. RS
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Thanks Fellas! I'm in NWKS and we had some really cold weather come through and they furred up fast! Seems like most of the time the sow comes out pissed off and ready to fight. Sometimes the younger ones will too, but other times they will run up another tree or disappear back in the den tree. The fur buyers don't like them when they are killed with a shotgun, but that's what works. We turn on the call (coon distress #2 on the Lucky Duck call), wait 3-5 minutes and if they are there, they will peek a few times, get nervous, and either come down tree and run straight to the call, or screw around on the tree and go up and down a few times. We don't normally shoot them on the tree....we like to see them come down and run across the ground. It seems more sporting that way. Also from my experience...You may call some really good looking den trees and never see a coon. I read once that coons can have up to 15 different dens. But when you find the right one its a pretty cool experience. Multiples happen a lot, and sometimes they will come from the damnedest places! Also I have had really good luck with brush piles...the older the better. We called one giant pile that had 8-10 coons in it. When we started calling they all started fighting with each other and making a helluva racket! 2 eventually came screaming out across the ground to the call.
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Coons are big time Predators on our Quail and Quail nests, we try to kill all we see but trapping them works better for me. Rio7
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These were trapped, but they're dead critters in 2023 anyhow...
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening.
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T-Man, I would like to get a Wolverine, but they are few and far between in South Texas, Good Job.Rio7
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Kid, Hogs are a little more plentiful in South Texas, than Wolverines, Kill all you can we need all the help we can get. Rio7
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Cold Wet Crappy morning, perfect for calling critters, i know people that call his Moose hunting weather, we are short on Moose here, so Coyotes and Coon's will have to do. Rio7
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DIRTBAG, Has turned me into a Coon Caller. Rio7
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RIO,
What load are you running through that AR that is killing all those critters, big and small?
RS
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RipSnort, 55 gr S.P. works well. Rio7
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those wolverines are just bad to the bone.
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening. Portable rifle rest?
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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These were trapped, but they're dead critters in 2023 anyhow... Baddass!!!
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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