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Title: Raccoon mounts and rugs, Lets see em!
Post by: seth30 on August 14, 2013, 07:51:30 AM: I gained some access to property that is overrun with raccoons and after I get my deer I will be working that property. I am really intrested in a mount or rug and I am looking for ideas. Please post them up :tup:
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Post by: jackmaster on August 14, 2013, 07:53:54 AM: i dont have one but they are really cool rugs, the old timer that taught me to hunt with hounds had a couple and they sure were neat :tup:
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Post by: seth30 on August 14, 2013, 07:55:03 AM: I wish I had some hounds to hunt them with :'( I will be using shotgun since I am in a weapons restriction area. Any recommendations on shot size for a coon?
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Post by: xXLojackXx on August 14, 2013, 09:56:24 AM: Shoot them with a good pellet gun at least 1250fps. I use to double lung coons in my yard in the tops of evergreen trees and drop them with one shot.
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Post by: Elkstuffer on August 14, 2013, 05:23:26 PM: Here is a lifesize I did about 8 yrs ago for a Yakima couple.
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Post by: seth30 on August 14, 2013, 05:31:47 PM: That is one dandy mount :tup:
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Post by: luckyman on August 14, 2013, 06:08:57 PM: Not really the best of pictures.
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Post by: seth30 on August 15, 2013, 09:23:26 AM: How much did that mount run you?
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Post by: jackelope on August 15, 2013, 09:35:22 AM: Bunch of rug pics online.

They are pretty cool.
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Post by: seth30 on August 15, 2013, 09:45:46 AM: Really looking forward to September 1st so I can go out and bag a few animals :tup: Will coons have slippage in September?
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Post by: Natures Way on August 15, 2013, 10:49:18 AM: No but there hair quality may not be the best. if you would really like one with nice hair I would wait tell at least the end of October hope this helps.
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Post by: huntandjeep on August 16, 2013, 03:25:20 PM: My brother in-law use to hunt them with his hounds. Told him I would be interested in a big one so I could get a lifesize mount done. Talked to one of the local taxi's and he wanted $850 for a coon mount. Thought he was crazy so cut the tail off and threw it in the trash.
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Post by: cedarriver on August 19, 2013, 08:52:38 AM: Only have the one from about 6 years ago.
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Post by: seth30 on August 22, 2013, 10:00:53 AM: Hard to tell on my computer but is that raccoon hanging on that driftwood?
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Post by: boneaddict on August 22, 2013, 10:05:42 AM: Funny to see this. I just drug a big one out of the corner buried in my garage that I never finished. He rivals the worst mount award at the moment.
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Post by: quadrafire on August 22, 2013, 10:08:04 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on August 22, 2013, 10:05:42 AM
Funny to see this. I just drug a big one out of the corner buried in my garage that I never finished. He rivals the worst mount award at the moment.
Need a pic of this
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Post by: boneaddict on August 22, 2013, 10:09:10 AM: I do have some pride....
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Post by: quadrafire on August 22, 2013, 10:16:52 AM: :chuckle:
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Post by: grundy53 on August 22, 2013, 11:38:04 AM: tagging

sent from my typewriter
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Post by: jackmaster on August 22, 2013, 12:25:38 PM: if anyone is looking for a very nice coon i have one in the freezer, that i shot out of a tree at my house, it was winter time and the hide is absolutly perfect, if i remeber right he was about 15 to 18 pounds, cant really remeber but he was in awesome shape, and he has been frozen from the time i killed him in a burlap sack so i am sure the hide would still be in great shape, pm me if interested in it...its free, i would like to tan it but with baseball startn up again and school and of course deer season, time is short, otherwise i am just gonna sjkin it and dry it.... :tup:
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Post by: cedarriver on August 22, 2013, 01:59:44 PM: Quote from: seth30 on August 22, 2013, 10:00:53 AM
Hard to tell on my computer but is that raccoon hanging on that driftwood?
Climbing, customer was going to hang it on his fire place like it was climbing up.
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Post by: seth30 on August 22, 2013, 02:10:27 PM: That is cool :tup:
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Post by: blackhorn on August 22, 2013, 02:32:38 PM: I don't have any pics, but one of our chiefs has a very fierce looking stuffed coon with teeth showing. That thing has been found in lockers, truck seats, under desks, near dumpsters, and anywhere else some unsuspecting firefighter might find it. Needless to say that shorts needed cleaning after being found. :chuckle: