Back in the late 90's when I last sold the buyer wanted all coons frozen solid, no skinning at all! They were paying $3 for the meat & $9 for the hide if it was good. He said they sold the meat to people in Louisiana.

Man, with all the coons in TX, ya'll could pay for your leases by running I-20 from Shreveport to Vicksburg selling coons. Folks in N.LA love them and they're hard to find up that way.

Correction breadman: It does not taste like chicken! I have never had bear meat, but have been told it's much the same, a little bit greasy from all the fat. I've only had my grandmothers roasted recipe, but if you had it and no one told you what is was, you'd probably enjoy it.

There's still an annual "Coon Supper" fund raiser in SE Ark. to raise scholarship $. It's kind of turned into a political thing the past 20-30 years. Clinton used to go...

Back in the old days of the supper, hunters would come in from all over the country the week before for the big hunt that provided the hundreds of pounds(thousands of pounds some years) of meat needed. These days I think trappers provide most of it

Coon hunting used to be very popular in many areas of the south and still is to some degree. Believe it or not, really good coon hunting dogs can cost as much or more than a good bird dog.

For the non believers:

http://talkbusiness.net/2015/01/gillett-coon-supper-slated-for-saturday-january-10/


I found this link too. it has some history of the event:

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3827

Gotta boil it first cliffie, just like those hog ribs......

The man ain't gonna give up his buyer, I wouldn't. It ruin it fast...

We were getting around $10-12 per fresh killed coons that were frozen whole in the early 90's in Kendall County. I had a couple of guys that BBQ'd them in San Antonio back then. You have to eat it right off the pit they said cause when it cooled down that fat got nasty tasting. There was a market for the coon meat in the early 70's in the Victoria area. We could get $25-35 for the hides then sell the meat.

When I was in college at A&M we took buffalo and carp that we bowfished to people in Bryan that ate them. They would take coons too, but we never had any... Shot one with the bow while bowfishing... that was a mistake!

If seeing the skinned ones upset you we would really make you mad. Shoot em and get their foot out of the trap is all we do, then straight to the gut pile.

Ive made a little money on coons. Most varmint contests will have a side pot for heavy coon. They usually pay anywhere from 200$-800$ depending on how many entries.

I went varmit calling with a buddy and had to borrow a gun because I was away from home. Only gun that was available to borrow was another buddy's 7mm wby mag shooting 160 grain nosler partitions... don't think there was enough of those coons left to sell and if there was it would take a bit to cover the ammo cost!

I kill everyone I can and leave them for the hogs and yotes to eat. Maybe I should put them in the freezer . . .

Not anymore.


Hey STX, did you ever ? I think I might starve to death before being able to eat one, that smell...Even being 20 years since I skinned my last coon, the smell still haunts me! Just nothing I can think of to compare it to.

I do miss ringtails though, man they were sooooo easy to skin! A bit rank but nothing like a coon.

Well a lot of coon meat is sold black market style. A licensed fur dealer such a myself can buy and sell coons for immediate consumption. I can sell to anyone that I want as long as it's for personal use if you have any intent to resell those then you need a fur dealers license as well. If you have it lined up then it's worth it but seriously think about how much effort and extra work and space is involved in harvesting 100's of coon, keeping them cold iced down just like any other meat, then properly freezing them to prevent freezer burn until your secondary buyer purchases them from you. It takes too much extra bull to really make money at selling coon meat, unless you've got guys bangin on your door everyday for raccoons but that's not gonna happen here in texas. Gotta cross the state line for that, so in all honesty I think this is pretty much an underground market that people buy and sell on a small scale.

Grout, how long did those coons sit before you skinned them? Ive skinned a few just to tan the hides for myself/family and non of them stank any more than a deer. Other than the thought of eating a coon they meat didn't look bad and had a lot of fat, would probably bbq well... that said I never tried it.

Red, never more than an hour. I think my sniffer is just sensitive because cleaning a hog does the same thing to me, I can't eat a hog that I've cleaned because all I can think about is the smell of them uncooked. I might be a bit though.

here you go...

sell them to a chinaman...

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/02/1...ccoons-as-food/

Was a guy around Ozona that said he would buy from me.Dont recall him name. But he only paid $2.00 per coon meat and around $3.00 for the hide. This was about four years back. He said it was being used in dog food.

That's what I was thinking, oriental restaurants should be a good market.

a few beers and buddies and it all taste like chicken !!!!

Looks like there may be some places selling raccoon meat.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4059512679001...k#sp=show-clips

Taste like pork more than chicken...

imagine a greasy pork loin...

Actually Hannibal could tell you what it taste like also