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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6614410 01/03/17 06:59 PM
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A friend at work claims he can cook coon so that it's very tasty, but I've not had the pleasure of trying it. I know this: if you look at what an animal eats, you'll know something about what it tastes like. Coons are mammals that generally eat cleaner stuff than armadillos, which mostly eat worms and grubs.

I've also found that how you clean and take care of the meat makes a big difference in any animal. I was hunting in Wyoming, and the locals up there would hardly touch a pronghorn, claiming the meat was too gamey to taste worth a darn. But us dumb Texas boys always had them field dressed and on ice within 30 minutes, and the meat was always fine. It was bland since there's no fat, but not a strong taste at all.

So I would imagine that if you took a coon that wasn't eating rotten food and cleaned it properly, it should taste as good as catfish, which eats dead gunk on the bottom of the lake.

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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6614436 01/03/17 07:09 PM
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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6615351 01/04/17 03:41 AM
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I had a friend that that lost his lower legs in a car accident,being a coon hunter he every year would ask me for a coon for his mother to cook for him.One day he brought me some and along with it was a recipe on cooking it from his mother.I don't remember just how it went something like boil the coon in water with black pepper and salt then remove the coon from the boil, and place it in a pan, put sweet taters around the coon, sprinkle crust red pepper on the coon and bake for 40 minutes with foil covering the coon,take the coon out of the oven,remove the foil,and have no mercy!

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6616102 01/04/17 06:10 PM
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coon makes good jerky as well, never dry for sure.

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6616168 01/04/17 06:39 PM
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Ya'll still got time to make it if you can get a ticket, though it's not like it was in the old days..........Fantastic duck hunting too.

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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: HWY72] #6618097 01/05/17 07:47 PM
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Seen the game cam photos...some coons are corn fed so that should help them be more paletable! Still corn bandits and turkey are corn buzzards!


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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6619128 01/06/17 02:12 PM
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Coon is better than possum and they are both better than armadillo. I didn't do the cooking but had a neighbor who would take anything and everything we would bring him.
I will take squirrels over any of them.

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6625136 01/10/17 04:15 AM
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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6628361 01/12/17 03:29 AM
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My brother-in-law grew up in the back woods of Arkansas. I think there were six kids in his graduating high school class. His father died when he was about six, and they lived with his grandmother. They ate whatever they could get. He said 'coon wasn't bad, just a bit greasy.

I've though about cooking one. I've looked at recipes. Most of them seem to say to first boil the coon to get rid of the grease, then bake it or whatever.

So far I've managed to keep the freezer pretty full of feral pork, so 'coon cookin' will have to wait.


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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6628774 01/12/17 02:26 PM
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You can have any coons that were reserved for me.

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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6633819 01/15/17 10:41 PM
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I've lost count of the BBQ raccoon number I have had. Must be cooked right or it is too greasy to even consider. Had a neighbor that ran his dogs 2-3 x week. Usually came home with 6-10 coons. All he really wanted was the fur, but did keep a lot of the carcasses to supplement his dog food. I tried to get a few coon carcasses each month to make a meal off.


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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: Reggie] #6639176 01/19/17 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted By: Reggie
A good friend of my wifes wanted a coon so I trapped her one. I would not eat it but she was happy as hell to get it. She was a older lady and grew up dirt poor in Mississippi and said it reminded her of her childhood. I told her spam did the samething for me and I wanted no parts of it either barf


My mother ate so much Spam during the Great Depression, she wouldn't allow it in the house when I was growing up.


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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6640128 01/19/17 08:59 PM
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Buzzards and coyotes won't eat coons we shoot at the feeder. That tells me something...........


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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6643193 01/22/17 03:31 AM
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I think I ate some at the last Taco Bell?

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: Beckett] #6643208 01/22/17 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted By: Beckett
Buzzards and coyotes won't eat coons we shoot at the feeder. That tells me something...........


Your buzzards and yotes will not eat raccoon? Hmmmm

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6643209 01/22/17 03:51 AM
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I know some people who swear by it. They boil it with seasoning and than put it on a smoker. I personally have never had it, but certainly would give it a chance.

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6643267 01/22/17 05:05 AM
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I shot 2 hogs and a raccoon once and hauled them down to the hog graveyard. Hogs were gone in 2 days and as far as I could tell nothing touched the raccoon. I'm not about to eat hogs or coons.


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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: Navasot] #6645423 01/23/17 10:07 PM
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Taste closer to brisket when slow cooked, its not bad. Not my first pick.
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I found it more like pulled pork but know what you sayin
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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6650069 01/26/17 10:11 PM
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I sold 'coon in the late 80's for $5. I sold them in the late 90's and around 2005 for $10. I think $10 is a fair price for the effort. Buyers always wanted the back feet left on them. One said it was so she could tell I wasn't selling her a house cat!!!!

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I tried it by accident one time. I found out as I was eating it, it along with some opossum and dumplings, was "cooked up" for the dogs. Sure, I felt stupid. Not so good, but it was better than the opossum!

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Originally Posted By: taterpop
I had a friend that that lost his lower legs in a car accident,being a coon hunter he every year would ask me for a coon for his mother to cook for him.One day he brought me some and along with it was a recipe on cooking it from his mother.I don't remember just how it went something like boil the coon in water with black pepper and salt then remove the coon from the boil, and place it in a pan, put sweet taters around the coon, sprinkle crust red pepper on the coon and bake for 40 minutes with foil covering the coon,take the coon out of the oven,remove the foil,and have no mercy!


I've had it with sweet potatoes and bar-b-que. Loved the bar-b-que. Threw up right after I ate it. But it tasted great. The one baked with sweet potatoe was dry, cause it had been freezer burned. But it tasted good, too. My cousin hunts a few times a week and sells all he can get as soon as he gets home. I'll kill the next one I see and eat it, too.

Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6651049 01/27/17 05:13 PM
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The folks that won't try it probably eat hot dogs all the time. Now that's gross.

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Originally Posted By: Sneaky
The folks that won't try it probably eat hot dogs all the time. Now that's gross.


That's the truth! Wasn't there a story about a year ago where some lab analyzed a bunch of different brands of hotdogs and found human DNA in a lot of them?

Edit: Here's the story with video. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/26/report-human-dna-found-hot-dogs/74617102/

I'd rather eat coon any day.

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Re: Raccoon Meat... its whats for Dinner! [Re: milton1allen] #6651452 01/27/17 11:22 PM
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Coon tastes way better, anyway. People or so goofy.

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Wife says I will eat anything that doesn't eat me first. I'll try anything at least once. Hot dog story makes me want to swear off them


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