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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187823
03/14/18 07:38 PM
03/14/18 07:38 PM
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Philippines, s.e. asia,ohio
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caught some big lanky coons in s.d. Real big redfox too

Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187837
03/14/18 07:58 PM
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E central Il
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I’ve personally killed two that went 26# , one in a trap that was a porker. Treed the other with my old night champion female, this coon looked like a stove pipe with legs. The biggest one I ever saw was killed in a grain elevator and bought by my old fur buyer ( Mr. Glen Burmaster) it weighed 32#.

A lot of people talk about 30 pounders, until you pull the digital scale out,lol !

Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Golf ball] #6187840
03/14/18 08:01 PM
03/14/18 08:01 PM
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Iowa
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Originally Posted By: Golf ball
A lot of people talk about 30 pounders, until you pull the digital scale out,lol !


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187861
03/14/18 08:16 PM
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Ontario, Canada
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Suburbs South of Toronto all the way on down to Windsor will yield lots of corn and soybean fed coon. I have trapped less than 200 coon so far, but I know that 2 where over 30 on a scale and lots that I never weighed were only a bit smaller.
I have seen some absolute giants road killed around Detroit and Ann Arbor MI


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: jk] #6187864
03/14/18 08:19 PM
03/14/18 08:19 PM
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N.W. Pennsylvania, Venango cou...
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Originally Posted By: jk
Patrapper that is a monster here. I assume that I might have taken one in Pa over 21. In NY I did get a big one and everyone knows that I weight everything but for some reason not that one. Maybe 25......jk
42 years of trapping,predator and coonhunting that was the only one i've ever caught even close to 30 and i actually caught it in a blind trail set in a hay field heading into a cornfield with a 1 1/2 coil. When i showed up at the trading post a couple miles away with it to weigh it definitely got alot of attention.


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: ~ADC~] #6187884
03/14/18 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted By: ~ADC~
Originally Posted By: Golf ball
A lot of people talk about 30 pounders, until you pull the digital scale out,lol !


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Apparently it depends on what state your coon came from.I've been in sections of the south where I thought a 11/2 coil was overkill.And 30 pd ers,while not your average size here,is not uncommon.


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187886
03/14/18 08:46 PM
03/14/18 08:46 PM
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Pottawatamie co. IA
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I usually catch ten or so a year over 30 pounds. Like ADC said you think you have one until the scale comes out. Not really common. LLL


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187895
03/14/18 08:58 PM
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only caught one that went over 30 lb in 45 years weighed hundreds that went 22 -25 lbs that's on dryland going to early and trapping creeks yield kits and small females


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187896
03/14/18 08:59 PM
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Iowa (where the tall corn grow...
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My biggest ever went 39, second 36.

For every thousand coon, I'll have roughly 10-15 that hit or break 30. LOTS of 25-27 though.

Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187906
03/14/18 09:09 PM
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Oregon
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Those big Coon and Big Beaver will shine again I just know they will. I skinned and put up so many Coon back in the 80's I couldn't even look at one until here about a year ago, if those big prime ones would bring a quarter hundred I would put a dozen for the fun of it. I put up a Beaver here a couple years ago now that is work let me tell you! Nothing but respect for you Coon and Beaver guys.

Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187909
03/14/18 09:10 PM
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My largest in south Tx was a whopping 18 lbs!

Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187910
03/14/18 09:10 PM
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My nephew has weighed two in at calling contests that weighed 43 each on two different contests and two different scales. Central Texas and hundreds of pounds of corn thru the deer feeders. He said they were so fat they waddled.


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187921
03/14/18 09:25 PM
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Perham Minnesota 54
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I got a 40 lb and a 35 lb in the same day 5 miles back in on a snow shoe trail I had a few years ago.

I carried both of them out frozen hanging on my shoulders with rope.

Let's just say I didn't have to do any cardio at the gym that week. Lol

Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187922
03/14/18 09:26 PM
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Caught a 40# or over for the last 3 years running. This year the big one was 38.5#. NRA hat for reference.


Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187982
03/14/18 10:49 PM
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I'd say to answer his question. The Mid west ... HAHA


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6187995
03/14/18 11:21 PM
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Back when I was in high school, I caught one here in Ohio that weighed 47 pounds. It had poor quality fur and overall was a poor quality yellow swamp Coon. I always wondered if it was somebody’s escaped pet.

Best wishes, Willy


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6188020
03/15/18 01:22 AM
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I largest raccoons I've ever seen were ones trapped in and around the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago; absolute monsters. This was back in the late 70's.


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6188043
03/15/18 04:33 AM
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Firth, Nebraska
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Biggest we caught was 29 pounds. I have tried my whole life to get one over 30 pounds.
Jim


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6188053
03/15/18 05:09 AM
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Quote:
Biggest we caught was 29 pounds. I have tried my whole life to get one over 30 pounds.
Jim


put one of those 40 pounders on a scale 99.9% wont break 30. same thing is true of bobcats.


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Re: The largest raccoons, where are they from? [Re: Minkener] #6188083
03/15/18 06:13 AM
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Yeppers, even that 29 looked freakishly huge. Was tough to get a decent shape stretch on it because it was so round around the belly.
Thanks Danny.
Jim


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