I want to shoot me a coon and I would like to know the most successful way to get those nasty things in close

sardines or cat food          

put cat food in your barn for your cats and your guaranteed to get coons on it in no time. ask me how I know...          

BTW - the higher quality the food, the more show up...... sometimes 6 to 8 at a time.....

well I actually saw one up a tree in daylight and shot it with my bow, man a woodsman does quick work on them :0) I never again saw that arrow though. Drew

I also used vanilla for cover sent and almost got molested by two coon before I could reach my stand. I had to chase them off and poke one with my bow tip to get rid of them >

Lost Arra's got it!!!

You wanna shoot a coon? Follow one of them!

Man I spend a pile of hours doing that when I was younger...

Nice Redbone!!! I use to have several

are there seasons?

I have gone coon hunting with a friend at night. They like to tree around here in hemlocks. It would be pretty tough to get one with a bow IMHO but not impossible, by the way he uses English coon hounds. They are fine dogs.

QuoteOriginally posted by Ian johnson:
are there seasons?

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I see there's an add for a treeing walker in my newpaper tonight...I used to have a cross between a treeing walker and a mountain cur. Let me know if you're interested.

I usually see coons in late afternoon they start rambling.
In late Winter you can find them, sunning on a limb in the swamp.

It would be right exciting to go on a live nite hunt with hounds.    
Are you going to make a quiver out of the hide? I think I'd wait a while. Right now if it's a female, she still teaching her young.
I think November would be good and the pelt gets better as Winter gets in.  

Uh, beware the cat food and sardines...they also attract the black and white striped variety of coon...      :rolleyes:

If your gonna trying hunting them in the daytime without a hound Woodduck is on the right track. You have to kind of develope an eye for spotting coons. They'll often have "lay up" trees, not den trees, where they will lay in a crook of the tree or something for a daytime snooze. You gotta look for lumps, tails, ears, some times they blend in pretty darn good.

If you've spent any kind of time in the bush, you've probably walked past a lot of coons; of course your not typically looking up in trees (unlike the deer we're hunting...)

I shot these two out of a wild apple tree when I was deer hunting. We ate both of them...coon are mighty good eating IMO.

As you can tell from the picture, this was a while back...1958 or 59    :rolleyes:  

   

 

Ron, you're amazing.

You pretty mich got a classic picture for any outdoor pursuit...

Use a broadhead, I found that out the hard way.They are really tough.I even shot one at work with a 45 acp through the lungs and he held up for a while.

You definately need a broadhead.

I've seen coons suck up a lot of lead before they come out of a tree. They can be the most tenacious of critters...good thing they don't weigh 100 lbs...

We had a coon in our shed one time and I thought oh they are small they cant be that tough so I grabbed an arrow with a judo point on it and the arrow bounced off the side of the coon.  The I went and grabbed an arrow with a broadhead and nailed him to the wall.

We hunt coons at the same time as we hunt Beavers....At night out of a boat....
   The islands out on the delta are covered with them....
   Things I learned....
1) Only shoot at them if theres a back stop behind them, not cattails, your arrow goes thru the coon and about 20 yds of cattails, lost arrow.
2) Even with a good hit, they just run away and hide in the cattails....They are tough.
3) use a broadhead with a scorpion behind it to prevent pass thrus....

Coons are extremely easy to call in with predator calls.  The squeaking calls are the best.  They will not circle downwind like many predators will.  There are several hand squeakers on the market that work great.  I've probably watched 20 - 30 climb down out of trees and come to investigate a call.  All of this was done at night.  I'd expect to not have the same luck during the day.