When I was in Illinois (suburbs of Chicago) I remember catching raccoons that got up into the +40 pound range, but in Utah where I live now, raccoons in the lower to mid 30's are exceptionally rare. So it makes me wonder how accurate my memory really was on the size of the raccoons I caught in Illinois. This got me wondering further, how big do raccoons really get, and where are the biggest raccoons being caught?

So what have you guys experienced? What are the heaviest weights on raccoons you have caught, and what states were they caught in? And how rare is it to catch a raccoon over 40 lbs? Is it really even possible to catch a raccoon over 50 lbs? Thanks to all who reply!

Bergmann's Rule.

10% of my coon will go over 30lbs. Have only caught a couple 40s. Had a season think it was 2011 160 coons skinned 25.5 lb average. See a few on the roads that are huge in August at the height of sweet corn season.

It takes a heck of a coon to go 30#.

I have personally only got two that went over 30#, and they were barely over.

So by percentage, I would say that by me, maybe 1% will go 30+.

I've heard that Maine has a monster coon as well as N Dakota.

ND would get my vote.

I have only witnessed a few from years of trapping this area.Southern WI.Il. border.Here is a pic of a real 31 pounder.Hung it on a standard 6'8" door.Next to a few average coon.All tanned.

got one 39 lbs next a dumpster at backyard burgers LOL

But the biggest ones come from around the nuclear plants were they make them there nuclears.. U can shoot them out at night without a light ,, you know because they glow in the dark and such.

Most 30 + lb coons I've caught in Michigan were in the UP, some below bridge.

Biggest one I ever weighed here in PA was 26 lbs. It looked a heck of a lot bigger than that.

MI and SD have some big ones the majority of coons here run XXL or bigger most years. 31#
#30

That’s sweet

I know when I was doing put up for NAFA we just hated doing ND coon, big and gristly.

In the '70's one was taken here in Delta county that weighed 45 pds.on the DNR scale in Escanaba.They were calling it the state record.Don't know if anybody broke it since.

Back in high school my buddy and I shot one that weighed 46# on a certified scale. Biggest I have ever gotten. I have caught a fair number in the mid 30's, but that is spread over several thousand coon and many years. In northeast NE, I think my average coon was a 3X, but I didn't trap coon in the water much, so mine probably ran a bit bigger than some.

36-15 on the fish scale. It felt like 37 to me.

I think we're close.


Brad

31# was my biggest ever here in pa.

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