I’ve stretched quite a few go over 40”. When I was taking coon I’d see quite a lot that would be in the 25-30lb range. Few I’m sure would be over. Majority of these coon would come from trapping protein feeders on big game ranchers down here. Just rolling with thick yellow fat from eating at a never ending protein buffet.

Back in the mid to late '80's there was a picture in the letter to the editor section of the Trapper magazine showing a 'coon stretched out on top of a cage trap with the guy who caught it next to it.He caught it in Minnesota and the part of the caption said it weighed 54 pds(?).Whether it weighed that much or not,using the cage trap and the guy standing next to it as a scale,the thing looked like the Andre the Giant of the 'coon world.

I killed one that weighed In at 51 lbs. WE were pretty young and my dog run something Into a culvert went home got the 22 and killed It. We didn't even know what It was till we got It out of the culvert. Dad hauled It down to the local feed mill and had It weighed.

Found out later It was the local owner of a drive Ins Pet.

I have caught a lot of coon in Illinois and the biggest one I ever weighed was 33 lbs. I think some of the biggest coon are around food dumpsters from restuarants in city where habitat is close by. This year I caught some of the biggest I have caught in a while including the 33 pounder and think it is because I haven't been trapping much the last three years and some have a chance to get bigger.

Always seemed the coons in the Chicago suburbs that lived in town always had a course "welcome mat" looking fur on them.

My largest was here at the homestead about '04. It was just a few ounces over 30. It was a tank.

Green skinned 42" coon. Never weighed it, but my 16 yr old son was proud. Best Halloween he ever had.

30 to 32 pounds has been the plateau on the ones that I have caught. One or maybe two a season for me. All around corn silage bunk feeders.

I get maybe 1 over 30 pounds a year, most of my "thirty pounders" are 23-26 pounds. Had 2 or 3 reach the 40 inch mark over they years but very few.

I have caught several that have filled a bucket but never weighed them. I also had a trail camera photo of one at a bear bait he stood on his hind legs and reached to the top of a 55gallon steel drum and pulled himself up to open the loose cover.

years ago I did a lot of coon hunting with hounds and can tell you this a lot of 14-16 pound coon felt like 20 lbers till I carried them out of the woods from way back in some hollow ....actual biggest I've weighed was 28 lb

The fur buyer I use to deal with in the state of RI when I live in MA . He told me that the large and best coon came out of the upper midwest. I found that out after I got out here.He use to buy for a guy out of NY. and seen what the guy had in his storage room,he said they where stack like cord wood.