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selling coon meat #8487947
10/18/25 10:07 AM
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Is there a ready market for coon meat for human consumption?

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Lots of guys have found and developed a market for it over the years. All of them I know of had to find a way to ship to the southern U.S, as that is where the actual market is.

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With sanitary gutting, bagging, freezing, and refrigerated shipping to an established buyer you might make some money. I'm thinking ten dollars a coon.

Re: selling coon meat [Re: bodycount] #8487967
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I don't think it's a very big market, so you might not get much help from anyone already established in it. But if you look hard enough you may be able to develop something. I hope you can make it work!

Re: selling coon meat [Re: bodycount] #8487979
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I had a market when the fur was worth selling. Got $7 across the board. Bagged with a back foot sticking out that served both for identification and a handle when frozen. I developed the market on the job site. Middle aged and older black men were masons, before the boarders opened wide, and they were the target consumer.

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I was selling over 800 coon a year. I was getting $10.00 per coon. It cost me $500.00 to ship them + expenses.
I was making money then they wanted more coon and wanted them sooner. I gave my contacts to another trapper.


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Re: selling coon meat [Re: bodycount] #8488087
10/18/25 04:39 PM
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I used to peddle them and groundhog in the hood.. I got tired of dealing with them.. always wanting to pay you tomorrow or sending you on a wild goose chase where there cousin lives..

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I do it every year sell a couple thousand helps not giving out no info though


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Re: selling coon meat [Re: bodycount] #8488163
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It may not be legal in some states if the coon is a game animal.

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Coon a “game animal”. Is this a generic internet police comment, or can you provide some states that recognize such?

Re: selling coon meat [Re: bodycount] #8488291
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I used to sell them locally to a guy who would buy ALL of them. He started buying them at $20 per. They were skinned, de-glanded, gutted, and tail, head, and all but one foot removed. I did about 200 that way one year then went down to $12 and sold 600 one year and about 500 a year for the next few years till I moved. There are markets out there…you just need to find them. This was only 9 years ago.


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Re: selling coon meat [Re: bodycount] #8488348
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NC Wildlife regs, page 69, defines a hunting season, bag limit, and gear restrictions for hunting raccoons.
Raccoon is also a fur bearing animal, thus the hides can be sold.
In NC, no part of a game animal may be sold. We cannot sell deer hides or antlers, or wild game birds ( except pen raised). Deer farms are illegal here.

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Is there a market for coon meat for ANIMAL consumption?

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I wonder how restaurants list a coon meal on their menu. It's probably a very popular meal in southern states.

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In WV we can not sell or barter the meat. I had a man offer to skin every coon I caught in exchange for the meat, but it was not legal. He was a friend of my grandpas and when coon were less plentiful we always gave our coon meat to him when we coon hunted.

Its a shame we can't sell the meat because I feel there is a market in my area with a lot of the elderly in the coal camps.

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Originally Posted by bodycount
I wonder how restaurants list a coon meal on their menu. It's probably a very popular meal in southern states.

I’ve been to every state south of the mason dixon line.. and have never even heard of it being on a menu..

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I suppose this goes for possum meals also.

Re: selling coon meat [Re: charles] #8489366
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Originally Posted by charles
NC Wildlife regs, page 69, defines a hunting season, bag limit, and gear restrictions for hunting raccoons.
Raccoon is also a fur bearing animal, thus the hides can be sold.
In NC, no part of a game animal may be sold. We cannot sell deer hides or antlers, or wild game birds ( except pen raised). Deer farms are illegal here.


Charles, you are only partially correct. Raccoons are a fur bearing animal and as such, all parts may be bought or sold. Deer hides can also be sold now. That was changed several years ago.

From the NC General Statutes: G.S. 113-291.3 #5

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Lawfully taken fur‑bearing animals and their parts, including furs and pelts,
may, subject to any tagging and reporting requirements, be possessed,
transported, bought, sold, given or received as a gift, or otherwise disposed of
without restriction. The skin of deer lawfully taken by hunting may be
possessed, transported, bought, or sold, subject to tagging and reporting
requirements and any season limits set by the Wildlife Resources
Commission. The Wildlife Resources Commission may regulate the
importation of wildlife from without the State by fur dealers, and may regulate
the sale of fox fur and other wildlife hides taken within the State if sale of them
is authorized. Fox furs lawfully taken without the State may be imported,
possessed, transported, bought, sold, and exported in accordance with
reasonable rules of the Wildlife Resources Commission. Processed furs
acquired through lawful channels within or without the State by persons other
than fur dealers are not subject to rule.


The Regulations Digest that you reference is a summary of the laws and rules but it does not cover every circumstance. Sometimes you have to go to the actual law to determine what is legal or not. I know several folks who have raccoon meat market of their catches in NC.

There are other sections of law that also apply to wild game. Rabbit and squirrel can be sold as well.


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Re: selling coon meat [Re: Krig] #8489368
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Originally Posted by Krig
Originally Posted by bodycount
I wonder how restaurants list a coon meal on their menu. It's probably a very popular meal in southern states.

I’ve been to every state south of the mason dixon line.. and have never even heard of it being on a menu..

Good reason for that. It's nasty.

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You'd be haahd pressed to find a Yankee eating one of them


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