Posted By: NonPCfed
couldn't help myself- put up a 1xl coon... - 03/08/21 12:48 AM
My friend has a couple of farmsteads in his family's farm and has borrowed a few of my coon cubbies the last few years to clear out some coon to save potential damage to their operation. He has no interest in doing anything with them so he brings them to me. Of the 9 he brought me this winter, most stretched 3xl or larger. There was a lower quality 2xl (probably I-II on the NAFA grading system), that one got skinned out and put in the freezer for me to play around later with some fur project. There was also 1 "dink". I first thought I'd take the back legs for meat because I have a non-hunter, non-trapper who wants to try eating coon, but skinning it out, there really wasn't a lot of meat there and the critter had been dead 2-3 days, so I decided to pass. The dink's fur however, was pretty thick--much thicker than most dink's fur, although this was later winter and not November. It also had good color, similar to a nice looking 3xl sow I put up, so I decided to finish the dink and see what it brings. I'm still hoping to catch some mrats here shortly so perhaps I'll try a bag of some coons and rats to FHA and see what August brings. If nothing else its an experiment...