Golden Triangle Coon Boundary

So, I referenced the golden triangle coon area previously in another thread. I have trapped coon from North Dakota to Mississippi and seen first hand the differences. There was an article published years ago but I can not remember the boundaries of this better quality raccoon pelts. Can some of you remember that article and help me with the associated boundaries?

This is the area I have always roughly associated as the "Golden Triangle" of the best raccoons when I have heard of it referred to.

Same. Stretching a little more west though.

Interesting...….I always thought it was much bigger and included parts of the eastern Dakotas, more of Iowa and Minnesota......

Yes, that is the region called the "golden triangle". These coon are big, but also have good color. Coon in the Dakotas/western MN may run bigger, but lack the color for the most part, and have a "whoolier" under fur.

It's wherever the crowing Canuck and his hairy bible says it is.

Same with Michigan coon.

I will say this - I learned even the young of the year coon in North Dakota were much bigger than many of our average coon in Missouri. I would say overall color was better as well. I put up over a hundred coon in North Dakota one year (numbers are not great up there) and only a few were under 30". It totally amazed me at the growth potential and obvious genetic difference in the growth rates up there.

i thought golden triangle meant they been denned too long.

Up here we got the Swedish Triangle, but it's just one township.

And it's square. Like a Polish triangle.

Its like the bermuda triangle-nobody really knows.

Good to know. My coons come from the tin hexagon to the east of that area. ioi

Seriously about how much (many miles) is the area where the semi-heavies are concentrated. I remember some years ago when color was a huge factor a lot of Kansas and Nebraska coons sold very well and I was under the assumption many areas there produced semi-heavy type coons.
Also for my collections the western northerns are my highest valued typically. Are western-semis more like western northerns then north centrals are? Most of my coons sell as north centrals most seasons.

Bryce

Like all things, this is a generalization and it is wrong, as there are species shift. In my location we have huge coon, but from the west there is a prairie raccoon which is light brown. These mix in breeding with the black guard hair raccoon, which are the well furred and wonderful quality racoon.
There are factors in this too in location, as in drainage of major waterways, food and yes background color. A raccoon that is out in the sun, with a white and brown prairie is going to be lighter in color just as human hair bleaches out. For that matter a coon in woods and with dark colored soils is going to be darker.

This Red and Minnesota River drainage, which flows down to the Gulf and up to Hudson's Bay is a divide on fur. It is better quality, mink are outstanding, it is larger and the colors are appealing. For fox I used to catch a reddish yellow with black guard hairs on the Dakota side, and a gorgeous cherry red with white highlights on the Minnesota side.
Coyotes started out here those horrid brown things, while the Dakotas had the pale Montana types. What is appearing now is a light tan type. This population shift took decades, but it proves that animals do move. I know my Grandfather informed me there were not any raccoons in this area until the 1930's, when the first coons appeared. That was the last of the wolves being taken out and the coyotes were gladly exterminated.

Just keep in mind, there are always fur subspecies pockets and genus types do move as trends push species in and out, from agriculture, to housing to a distemper culling the animals and another group moves in.

Without insulting Southern fur, having seen it, I wonder why people bother with it, but the same holds for most lower 48 fur compared to the luxurious furs parts of Canada still produces and into Alaska.

yep

We trap in the bronze triangle here, but they consider us part of Appalachia and we get subsidies, so we average 122.00 per coon.

It is my understanding was the fur buyers, buying coons from all regions, who originally defined the "triangle" not the trappers in the region.

clay tetrahedron here

Beaucoup Walking Eagle?

You guys should pay attention you might learn something.
I already posted the 4 major coon sections above.
If you know anything about the fur industry you will know that better fur from each of the above 4 sections will be broken down into sub sections if the market requires it.
Today however with the requirements of large lots by the buyers there are less sections broken out than in the past.
Strictly on a grading basis,for example there are 6 separate wild mink sections in Ontario alone.

Boco - I am paying attention - so good, I noticed you did NOT post the 4 major coon sections above in this thread. It was another one.......

Big Opinionated Canadian Offal

Is that his Indian name?

I was always told it was NE Nebr, SE South Dakota and NW Iowa.

I never said in this thread,I said above (this thread).

Why do you edit so much and why do you think we care about sections in kanuck land on a thread about our coon? Really???

yep

Is Boco drinking beaver weedoo in his Irish whisky again
I guess I'd drink too if I only had one outlet for my crappy fur. Lol

weedoo

Fixed it

I would move it a little southward, or enlarge it somewhat. i used to by some really nice colored coon out of Galesburg Ill, I think the guys name was Ralph Coffee. That was in the late 70's

I edit because I dont want to post like you and coonman.
The mink section comment was to help you grasp the sectioning concept and how it can change due to buyer requirements.
It likely went over your head.

You all act like this "golden triangle" of coon is something new. I heard about it at Ludy Sheda's over 30 years ago.

SD and NE Nebraska have some of the best coon in the world. Don't know about Southern WI but Northern WI coon are as yellow as a banana and are kinky haired critters. LLL

Lol, you had to edit this one as well, bless your heart.