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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130451
01/10/21 07:34 PM
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JP some of the specimens I did for the museum back in the 70-80's their average weight was 15-18 kg and spring weight of 10-14 kg( 22-31#)
The sub-species destination is P-l-glenleainus, since most came from the university property near that town.
young of the year go 8-10 kg and hind foot measurement is >125 mm.

Looks like that boy was looking for a little love, or were you using some of that "tree Climber" lure

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130461
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Around here 25 is big and 30 is huge.
Back many years ago I caught a legitimate 43 pounder.
It was large framed but way too fat for its size.
I suspect that it had been living easy out of garbage cans.


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130539
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28 lbs is big coon most places. He should be prime.

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130569
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At least you let him take a selfie. grin


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130573
01/10/21 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
It’s not very often I catch a raccoon way out in the bush. But I guess they’re out there.

I caught this raccoon yesterday and I thought he was big. Weighed him once I got home and he was 28lbs.

Going to make a pair of mitts out of him!

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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: upstateNY] #7130593
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Originally Posted by upstateNY
At least you let him take a selfie. grin


Lol the funny thing about that raccoon was he played dead when I got up to him. Couldn’t believe it!


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130601
01/10/21 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Originally Posted by upstateNY
At least you let him take a selfie. grin


Lol the funny thing about that raccoon was he played dead when I got up to him. Couldn’t believe it!

Part Possum !!!! LOL


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130621
01/10/21 08:39 PM
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I consider 26 pounds and up a big coon for here. 28 pounds is a big coon.

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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130631
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Yep, it'd be big coon to me.

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130666
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Don't catch many but a couple of early winter late season coons at 32 and 24 while running cubbies for Fisher/Cat's. Late November to early December in with some warm weather.

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: mntrapperboy] #7130694
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Originally Posted by mntrapperboy
Don't catch many but a couple of early winter late season coons at 32 and 24 while running cubbies for Fisher/Cat's. Late November to early December in with some warm weather.


Gotta be disappointing to realize it’s a coon in the trap instead of a bobcat eh lol


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130716
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WOW!!!! I've taken my share of coon and around here north central Pa in the "mountains" anything over 20 is big. I have taken two big ones, one in upstate NY and one here that were big to me and skinned in the woods but I doubt that they were over 25. I have a scale in the truck and wieght most anything but not those two. Over 20 is big here......jk


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130749
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I used to weigh and keep records of every raccoon I caught. Greatest percentage 22-26 lbs. Some smaller 14-18 lb. range. Also some in the 28 - 30lb. The heaviest I ever weighed was 32Lb. 8 oz. 28 lb. is a big coon. I don't care where its from.

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7130990
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28 lb coon is a Monster down here
You could ride it at the Rodeo.
Congratulations JP

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7131097
01/11/21 12:19 AM
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JP, a 28 lb coon is no slouch.

Don't forget to show us a picture of the finished mitts when you get them done.


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: blackhammer] #7131114
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Originally Posted by blackhammer
Thirty is a big coon. Have caught a lot in that range. Rarely weigh a coon anymore. Thirty-five would be extremely large. Most forty pounders have never been weighed. Sometimes the really big boars are pretty rough and tough scraping damaged type goods. I’d take our corn feed twenty,twenty-five pound coon over farther north large but poorer furred coon.


True....Most so called 40 lb coon have never been weighed. I caught one at 41 in my lifetime and will likely never catch another one. It took me a solid 5 minutes to pry it's head out of a #220 with my setters. No idea how it got it in there in the first place.

Coon sizes range quite abit depending on how far north you are. I remember letting dink YOY coon loose in MS until I realized that was a normal sized adult coon for the location.

28 is real respectable no matter where you're at.

Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7131116
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20 pounds is about tops down here. I only recall about 10 or so coons that have stretched to the 4x size out of well over a thousand since the late 70s. Not many 3x either....a few over 100.

Most keepers here....XL and 2x...weigh about 10 or 12 lbs.


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7131135
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I don't weigh mine, guess I should...caught a big one today, I'd say maybe 21-25, I've caught bigger, just happy to catch at this point.


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Steven 49er] #7131170
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Originally Posted by Steven 49er
JP, a 28 lb coon is no slouch.

Don't forget to show us a picture of the finished mitts when you get them done.



Yup, I will!


I caught another raccoon. She weighed 19lbs. Skinned, fleshed, and put up. Man are they ever greasy eh!
The fat pushed off like melted butter. Was super easy, but what a mess!

They have big A** holes too!


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Re: What do you consider a big raccoon? [Re: Jurassic Park] #7131176
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I seen 1 32 pound Dead coon on a scale in IL 43 years ago . Huge wide head and a tail that was 2 inches long.
I talked to a old fur buyer for GWF one time and he told me me those 30 plus pounders a lot of them have short tails , they have lived a long long time through some tough winters and a lot of of them their tails froze and fell off. He also told me he bought a 47 LB coon in upper MN the biggest he ever bought out of 10’s of thousands. Said a diary farmer fed it a pail of milk and cat food almost every day of hits life. Had to finally Shoot it one day because it killed wife favorite cat. They stretched it on a Coyote wire stretcher. Base touched the bottom of the stretcher. I wish I could have seen that. I am 61 and my biggest was 28 pounds and I made a rug out of him. MD

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