Did not know there were state records for largest raccoons

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...-raccoon-in-missouri-history/ar-AA15oHOg

Neither did I, I never made a routine of weighing coons

Right now there are about 1000 people saying, wait a minute I caught a coon larger than that in Missouri.

I thought once they get over 30lbs they are retitled as little bears. lol

Everyone has a 30 pounder till you put it on a scale.

Not many go 30 in Kansas for sure. They are rare everywhere, but in North Iowa I have caught dozens between 30-35 and a handful between 36 and 38. Weighed on a bathroom scale. Friend of mine made a rug out of one that weighed 42.

Not many go 30 in MO either Bernie. I doubt a lot do anywhere but they definitely get bigger as you go north and smaller as you go south.

Hobbie little bear is no lie, I was trapping on a coon hunters farm so he wanted all coons released. Set for yotes on pond dam, and I thought when I pulled up it was a small bear. Placed catch pole on coon release it when, then that sucker turned and started after me, I started back peddling down the pond bank until I fell and started rolling as that thing ran by my head I believe it was laughing, I know my partner was laughing on the other side for sure....

I have not used this yet but its supposed to accurate to .01 of a percent

Some claim 50. lol You are right there are very few 30# coons anywhere when they are weighed on an accurate scale. There are some, but they are rare even in the areas of the biggest coons. Probably most of them live behind McDonald's dumpsters.

Well I will claim shooting a 50 lb coon. As a young kid we always had a gun over our shoulder and a dog in tow. One day the dog was going crazy at the mouth of a culvert. Well there was a coon In that culvert and we killed It. One of us crawled Into the culvert (not me) and dragged It out. It weighed some where around 50 Lbs
This kill was made In the summer since we were out of school. I guess we never worried about hunting seasons. LOl Later on we found out from some of the neighbors that It was a pet coon that had escaped.

Or under a deer feeder?

I caught a 28 pound coon but it might have been the scale.

29 is my biggest, and that was a real memorable whopper. Still working for the mythical 30 here.
Got a friend on here from time to time who got one over 30 and that was off the charts big. Didn’t even look real and man was it round too.
Hey 1crazytrapper, I’m posting your gigantic coon pic. Hope you don’t mind bud!
Jim

I've only seen 4-5 that were over 30 and one weighed on a good scale 33 pounds, the other were guesstimates. They seem to hit 25-28 pounds here and stop most of the time LOL

As my Dad says when someone says they caught a coon that weighed X amount, "Yeah, well how far did you have to carry him?"

Have caught many over 30, largest weighed 35lb 15oz on ginseng scale at Wiebkes. Took 2nd place in biggest coon contest many years ago.

They are like 50+lb flatheads, very rare on an accurate scale, very common in the fish tales.

Like wild hogs. Most 400 lb wild hogs weigh 200 lbs. i have killed over a 1000 and never seen one over 338. I know they are there, but rare.

thats funny,i got two a few years back at 31 and 32,and both were bobtails too

Yep, lots of guys catch them until they actually weigh them on an honest scale.

Hey where's that guy on here that claimed he took 3 coon out of a 2x4 stud wall that all weighed over 40 lbs? Bwahahaha.

I caught one at 41 lbs once about 25 years ago in a #220 conibear. No idea how he actually got his head in there as it took me 10 minutes to pry his head out just before I cut the trap jaws. That wives tale about coon heads don't grow, but only the body is just that...Wives tale.

The fur buyer at the time kept him in his freezer whole for when guys would come in and try and tell him they had BIG coon. He would pull that coon out and say "nope....this is a big coon". He had a lot of fun with that one. Sure wish I would have kept that one. I'll never get another one that big again....and I'll say not even possible in Missouri. A far different coon there.

Good for those kids. Love to see that.

When I left the service in 73, I went to work for a local contractor who bought fur in the winter. He paid me carpenter wages to work in the fur house during the winter. I won many a dollar from fellas claiming they caught a 30 lb. coon. I'd bet them that their coon wouldn't even weigh 20 lbs and put them on the scale. This guy bought several hundreds of coons and I never lost a dollar.

What is with the bobtails? Most of the really big boys don;t have tails

I got a top lot coon one year here in NH...and it was roadkill....lmao !

They are almost all big boar coons. They have been around awhile to get that big and are usually the dominate in the area thus they get the spoils at breading time. The other coons in an attempt to remove him from the female grab and bite the tails. They get docked that way. It's pretty common where there is a decent population of coons. This is how it was explained to me and makes the most sense.

I have seen one heck of a lot more 50+ pound flats than I have 30+ pound coon. Looking through my picture book I see over a half dozen flats from 50 to 74(my personal best), but I have only seen one coon over 30. In all fairness to your comment I did grow up and still live within a half mile of one of the best flathead rivers around these parts.

And you live south of the real big coon country.

I traped a 42" coon once! It probably weigh 34.5lbs

How big does a coon have to be to be dried on a coyote stretcher? 5, 6x?