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varmit hunter
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posted July 08, 2004 03:11 PM
Well, since we have run over the biggest Coyote, Like a dead Armadillo on I-10 on the 4th of July weekend. Anyone wont to take on the biggest Raccoon ever recorded?.
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posted July 08, 2004 03:47 PM
Well Hello there Ronnie ......... Just a note to make ya smile........ took a friend shootin and yeap , He's ordering a "Burris" and selling that L#&^*!) scope..............
On the large coon ....... I love dem things fresh of the pit , I tell you sha........
I killed one 24 lbs........ How big are you talkin bout ??????????? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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posted July 08, 2004 04:39 PM
The coon in our area are hogs. I have posted these pics before somewhere but for the topic they are worth bringing up again. I think I weighed the biggest ones but I can’t remember what they were. For comparison though the first picture is of our average coon next to an average coyote. The bottom pic is a nice big set of coons. Again for comparison, the black dog weighs 15lbs and the white one weighs 14 in the pic.
Good hunting.
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posted July 08, 2004 05:15 PM
Now Ronnie, I hope you aren't gonna pull some huge TX coon outta yer bum to show us. I think we'll all get whooped by Q's sandhills coons. Back when I did a lot of running hounds, we'd occasionally work the rangeland and come up with the occasional 40# boar but I don't have any pretty pics to show off. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Now, if we were talkin' 'bout hardest earned coon(s), I have this great old picture of my granddad, Herbie Homman (R), and his old hunting buddy of many, many years, Harry Jungel (L).
This rack of coons was the result of one night back when they hunted coons like Q hunts coyotes. They often left from the house on foot with the hounds in tow, turned 'em loose, and followed them along the Solomon and Smoky Hill Rivers with nothing but an old bolt action .22 and oil lamps. This picture was taken back in the early 40's - war years - when the fur went to the buyer and the meat went into the stewpot. Not a biog coon in the bunch, but it's just a neat picture I have hanging in my shop/ office.
[ July 08, 2004, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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posted July 09, 2004 06:38 AM
Cool! Another guess my weight contest. What's the prize this time?
Best guestimate. Q's Nebraska coyotes go about 30+. The big coon appears to be about seventy-five percent of the coyotes size or around 24 lbs. Since the largest western coyote on record with Fish and Wildlife Service weighed in at 74 3/4 lbs. or more than double
the average weight of a large coyote, I will more than double Q's big coon and guess 55 lbs.
What do I win?
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posted July 09, 2004 07:16 AM
61.5 pounds
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posted July 09, 2004 08:12 AM
I'm going to say Q's big coons in that pic will all run in the upper 20's. We have coons like that here in Minnesota with some real hogs. I saw one once that a buddy in highschool trapped that went an honest fifty pounds. He was just a round ball of fur.
I've seen several over 40lbs. It seems I never get one over twenty pounds unless I am following dogs into the darkest depths of a swamp. I shoot the damned thing and by the time I get him dragged out of the swamp, I'd swear he grew and weighs somewhere near 100 lbs. I hate to carry those things! They don't have any good handles!
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posted July 09, 2004 03:21 PM
From the ones I have weighed in the past I would say that Buker is about right with his guess. The biggest one may have gone 30 or so. I have seen and killed some whoppers as well. My cousin trapped one at 38 lbs and I think another local guy shot one that went 39 lbs. I have killed a heck of a lot of coons but have weighed very few and only in the last two or three years. This year I am going to take better notes and weigh more critters. There are 40lb coons out there but they are about as common and a 45lb coyote in my area. I have shot a few coyotes as well and can only say I have weighed a couple that were near the 45lb mark.
In my top picture that is an average adult female coyote and probably weighed 26 or 27lbs. Notice that the actual body length of the coon to the left and the coyote is the same. I would guess that the weight is about the same but would give the slight edge to the coyote. In the second pic ther are a couple of bigger coons that would probably be just either side of 30lbs.
As far as I know, a coon is a coon is a coon and there isn’t 500 different subspecies running around so I would say a 50lb coon is a freak a 40lb coon is dang near a freak in my country but up North in the Valentine NE area they grow them BIG up there so if there ever was a 50lb coon in NE that is where it would likely come from.
I read an article one time about a pet coon named Boris. The people that had him had several other pet coons living on their farm. Boris was neutered and they clamed that he would weigh as much as 55lbs in the winter. The picture accompanying the article showed about 4 coons being fed in there front yard and from the looks of it old Boris was every bit of 50lbs.
Good hunting.
Q,
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posted July 09, 2004 05:05 PM
Paul Harvey said something a couple weeks back about a coon that died and was nearly 70#. Said it was a record. Can't say that I doubt that much.
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posted July 11, 2004 10:49 AM
Greenside bout nailed this one.
The record was killed in Wisconsin by Albert Larson in November,1950. It weighed 62 pounds, 6 ounces., And measured 55 " from nose to tail.
Rich if you would have added Q's left boot to you're equation. I think you would have nailed it.
I forgot to mention. This was a contest. Greenside send me you're address for a Case Sodbuster.
Ronnie
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Greenside
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posted July 12, 2004 01:59 PM
You mean that really was a contest? YOO HOO. It really wasn't that much of a WAG., I did a google search on raccoons and came up with a site that said the largest ever was over 26KG. The hardest part was converting that to pounds.
Thanks Ronnie, I'm sure I'll put the knife to good use on one of those big iowa whitetails!
A big raccoon in my area would be in the 30 pound range. A forty would be huge!
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Cdog911
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posted July 16, 2004 02:01 PM
According to the recently released issue of FFG, the largest known raccoon recently died at a weight of just under 75#.
"When the raccoon hit 52.5 pounds, he was listed in the Guinness World Records."
This coon was raised in captivity on pastries, snack chips, and french fries. Does this coon count or is he disqualified because he has a name? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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posted July 17, 2004 11:12 AM
Lance, Sorry I did not know about the 75 pounder. I went with the records I had. Will try to do better next time.
Ronnie
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posted July 17, 2004 03:16 PM
You did fine, Ronnie.
Pets don't count for much. An average male lion weighs around 150 pounds, but I have heard of several in cages that were reputed to weigh 250.
I have a pair of desert tortoises that are only eleven, but are the size of twenty year olds, in the wild.
Still, a 75 lb coon is hard to believe, personally; I'm sure I never seen one that went thirty.
Did you hear about the man that was so huge he couldn't get out of his room, six hundred or eight hundred pounds; something like that? When an average man weighs under 200 pounds.
Hey, that's it! That 75 pound coon had a medical problem, a thyroid condition.
Good hunting. LB
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Cdog911
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posted July 17, 2004 04:43 PM
Ronnie, Not trying to be critical. In fact, I'll stick with your data since the coon I cited was captive and artificially boosted.
Leonard,
I've known at least three different patients that went over 500 pounds in my EMS career. With that kind of weight probloem, you can rightly assume that they see EMS fairly regularly. In every case, as a mattrer of personnel safety, when the call is toned out, at least one engine company responds tandemly just for the four to eight extra guys you need for lifting.
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posted July 23, 2004 01:21 PM
Thanks again Ronnie. It was in yeaterday's mail. It's a good one.
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