what to do with coons

[ruger357]

I just started trapping and today was my first day checking my line not very big but its out. So my question is what do you guys do with you coon meat. I hate to waste any thing that has a use but not sure of eating lol. Do any of you eat it or what do you do with them?

[ouchfoss]

You would be surpised how good racoon tastes. I was just having the discussion last night with my cousin about the fact coon is actually better tasting than almost any blacktail I have ever got.  I think it is really similar to a berry eating black bear. No gamie taste at all. You need to cut the fat off though just like bear.

[jason stevens]

Bbq sounds good or slow cook it like squirrell

[PolarBear]

Save up a bunch, add hog fat and make breakfast sausage or pepperoni out of it!

[lokidog]

As mentioned, be sure to get all of the fat off, that is the strong part.  We do it in the slow cooker and make a stew out of it.  I have also slow cooked and then deboned/pulled it to make sloppy joes.

[bob maier]

No thanks.

[Bigshooter]

No thanks.

[BullMagnet76]

As mentioned, be sure to get all of the fat off, that is the strong part.  We do it in the slow cooker and make a stew out of it.  I have also slow cooked and then deboned/pulled it to make sloppy joes.

Thats the grossest thing Ive ever heard.  Good luck with that.  Watch the whole clip

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[BOWHUNTER45]

You guys have me lost  But  looking up her skirt sounds better than eating eating coon fat !! 

[ruger357]

Have any of you ever used it to bait any other critters? I fleshed out the hide and I learned that you need to be slow and soft on the belly I was going to fast flipped the hide and hit a tit and rip. So I just needed to pay more attention to what I was doing but there will be more so in a few days I will be putting some in a alum tan solution and tanning them. 

[ruger357]

Here are some pics. I had my little helper with me today she helped do it all. Mom was not to into it but she loved it. lol

[Machias]

Nice looking hide.

Eating them....    

[ruger357]

   I just am having a hard time talking myself into it  right now seems like some say its good and some say no way. i think for now i will just stick to tanning there hides.

[pnwmtnmn]

Well, when I toss them into a carcass pile in the woods they are the last things there the only thing that eats them is birds. Coyotes don't even eat them.

[mikeybuck]

Small bits of coon meat is great sturgeon bait!

[JMTaylor]

I've been to several wild game feeds. Maybe it was just because i help kill all the coon or it was just that good, I don't know, but that was the one thing I ate the most of. It was BBQ and if you were to put it up against beef it would be hard to tell the difference. I've tried smoking it too but it didn't turn out as well (shouldn't have used a big boar).

[PolarBear]

Have any of you ever used it to bait any other critters?

When I was trapping coyotes years ago, I used coons and possums as bait.  Bobcats would rarely come in to coon meat but tended to prefer chickens.

[Humptulips]

I've rendered them for shoe grease. Other then that bird food.

[bob maier]

Google diseases  raccoons can transmit to humans and see what you find.

[lokidog]

Google diseases  raccoons can transmit to humans and see what you find.

You can get sick and die from the milk in your fridge too, what's the point?  Just cook it completely.  If you don't want to eat it, then don't.     I'm guessing noone on here that has eaten it has caught anything from it.

To the OP, like most things, some people seem to like it, some don't, just like many foods.  You will not know until you try it.  I would suggest trying a younger one for yourself. If you like it, keep eating, if not, don't.  It would be a shame to throw out many pounds of meat in a year if it turns out you like it.   

[PolarBear]