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I got chomped by a coon once. I was crouched in the catch circle and the little guy was being real calm, making that purring sound that they make. He walked up to me and freaked out and mashed down on my knee and growled like some sort of demon, bit through my jeans and broke the skin. Made me feel really stupid for going inside the catch circle, never again.

Is that road passable after a light rain? Looks like a mud hole waiting to happen.

Yes. Its hard packed dirt in the middle. But sandy washes on the sides

Ive only had one coyote that was right wrangy. He wouldve attacked me if he could have, completely nuts lunging at me the whole time. Glad there not all like that.

I have been chewed on three times in my life only once by a yote. The first one was a coon in a tree. I climbed the tree to punch him out to a couple of young dogs. The coon didn't fall from the first punch and came after me, hanging onto a tree limb is not a good place to fight an animal that lives in trees. He bit to the bone on one finger ripping half way around the finger before I got him to fly.
The second was a grinner. I used to take care of them by hand and somehow I got a finger to close to the grin. I no longer do things that way.
A year ago last season on a very cold day I got in a hurry nose knocking an aggressive yote. The yote dodged my swing and grabbed my gloved hand, as I kicked her off of my hand she latched onto my shin causing me to loose my balance. The fight that ensued is a little fuzzy, but by the time it was over I no longer needed to use my death ray. That yote never broke any skin, but left several teeth marks and some deep bruising along with removing 2 fingers from my glove and adding some rips in my coveralls. Thankfully this is the only damage she done. I don't get many aggressive yotes, but the few I do get can be nasty buggers. A good tap on the nose and they usually let me put the death ray on though. I have started carrying a longer knocker after that incident, I just don't trust my 16 inch punch hole rod anymore.
Hope someone can get a little humor or education from my stupidity. Dad always said if you gonna be dumb, you better be tough. Just not in that family friendly translation.

I've had a couple episodes with reds. Them things are quick! The biggest screw up on my part, was had a fox in a badger hole. Now I caught a lot of fox out of that hole through the corse of six to eight years. They were always caught by the front foot.....till this one! Just the plume sticking out, so I grabbed it like I always had, and jerked the fox out of the hole. He turned around faster than I could think and latched onto the hand holding his tail, and didn't let go. Had my shovel in the other hand, and overreacted! I hit him so hard, bought took his head off....but he let go!

Never have been bit by a yote or coon, but been scratched up pretty good! You gonna play, sooner or later you'll pay!

coon hunting buddy wanted a coon to put in roll cage for a pup. had one the next day so me and a buddy wrestled it some. we both got bit and scratched but him worse than me. was my pickup so he got to hold it pinned on the floor between his feet. we got the thing in the roll cage, told phill it was there and left. that coon promptly chewed a hole in the roll cage and left for parts unknown. pup never got to even so much as smell it.

The thing I could never understand about fox was when I was live market trapping. I would have 5 or 6 reds In a transfer cage and the buyer would just stick his bare hand In the cage and pull them out . Same with greys you would never get me to do that. He said he never got bit

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