How far will a nursing female travel this time of year? I wouldn't think too far from her den.

I would think it depends how far she has to go for food and water.

June 2020 the farm was dealing with a coon explosion we trapped 41 in 7 days , my fault for not gang setting DPs the first night when all the traps were full I added 2 more , then again and again, initial complaint they said 3 little dinks running barn to barn during the day 41 later I was finally getting untouched traps.

all these were from less than an acre of woods near the barns other than that nothing but field and pasture for a mile in every direction , any trap not in that little woods was untouched

I looked back week of June 15th approx.

I don't think any of those were nursing they were already about 2 pounds and running around in 3s without mom

I am a little further south than you but not that far that it should be months different

I've caught 4 females in 3 days, all in our yard. They all had swollen teats, can't say they were nursing for sure, but sure looked like it. I have not seen any little ones around, and there are some empty traps every night, right next to the caught ones. Just wondering how many litters there could be in the surrounding area. I am definitely going to hit them hard this fall.

If you are killing nursing females this time of year you will not be catching her offspring this fall or ever.

I am sitting 10-15 miles of the border with ILL and different years are different but I would expect they be done nursing very soon

there are no shortage of them with no pressure

I am in sw AR and not catching any nursing females or seeing young yet.

Ksnow I wonder if with as late of a spring as we had if the Sow lost her first litter they may have a June litter.

the are only supposed to have one litter 63 day gestation in March-April but if they loose a litter may have a second in late May or in June

and of course we know they don't always get the memo that they are supposed to follow the calendar , someone posted a August fawn picture last year so not ever animal follows the rules in the field manual

I've only seen a couple young ones hit on the road in the last week.

I do wonder if the cold spring we had resulted in later litters.

I have always heard that a coon has a 25 mile range. Not every night but they will roam that far. Not sure how true that is but I believe it.

The insider coon trapping book has some interesting stuff on coon movement, it was wrote by Austin Passamonte I believe he's on this sight. Be a interesting guy to talk to imo.

I'm close to you K snow, I've seen coons out during the day several times so far this spring. That is unusual behavior. How far they travel, can't say. Around here I don't see the need to travel far.
Don't think the excessive dryness has effected them yet. All the creeks and ponds have not dried up and too early for fruit and ag crops.

Same here, seen them out at weird times. There's still plenty of water around, my creek is a bit low, but still running. Pond is still full. Crops are barely up, so thats not a draw yet. We'll see.

I toed a coon a cpl seasons ago an beilve it was same coon caught over 4 Miles away along 4 lane Rd close home . A number of days later after toed it, caught in pocket set

HE'S BACK!

Thanks coonman

All we’ve caught in the last two months have been males.

It's THE GMO grain, malnutrition keeps the foraging day and night.

saw a road kill coon kit on my travels about SE WI today , about the same size I was catching in 2020

I expect down here the would be done nursing

might be different a couple hours north