Since I don't see a trapping forum..............

[Gregh]

I'll just post some pics here of my last catch.


Raccoon in a #220 Conibear
http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1228.JPG

This possuum almost got away: Oh did I say he's pissed?
http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1234.JPG

Matt, my trapping partner with a big Nutria:

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1236.JPG

MAD POSSUUM:

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1237.JPG

I caught this coon in a #1 sleepy creek double coil water set:

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1238.JPG

Matt with another water set coon catch:

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1240.JPG

This was my 1st bucket #220 set I had made, and batted a 1000 on it:

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1241.JPG

This coon was taken with another #220 conibear, headache central!

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1242.JPG

Final catch one day:

http://photos.imageevent.com/gmherps/gmherpssnakes/websize/100_1243.JPG

Enjoy the pics!
I'll be going back out the end of March. :fullauto:

[Wylycoyte]

Looks like a good day's work in the woods to me!

Thanks for sharing!

[41mag]

You gonna make some hats outa those?

[Gregh]

You gonna make some hats outa those?

Hopefully.

For now we don't sell any of the fur we harvest.
We just skin it, and then wrap it up in newspaper and place in the freezer.

[RIKA]

I'm glad that somebody else likes trapping. Those are nice looking pelts Greg.

RIKA

[Coyote]

Going to make raccoon stew? :lick:

[Gregh]

Going to make raccoon stew?

Funny you should say that. A guy we went trapping with actually took one of the coons we skinned and made coon stew. I didn't try it, but I heard he had to season the living hell out of it.

[Coyote]

Huh. I always really liked it to tell you the truth. You have to cut the fat off though or it wont taste very good.

I hear that possum stew is indestinguishable from it but I have never tried it.

[Terry G]

I had roast possum once when I was stationed in Alabama. I didn't want to insult the nice people who invited me for supper, but it was so greasy and gamy I could barely get it down. Everybody else loved it. Dumb Yankee, just don't know what good food is.

[Gregh]

When I skin the coons they're very greasy! They have a ton of fat on them, especially with their winter coats.

[BigEd63]

I had roast possum once when I was stationed in Alabama. I didn't want to insult the nice people who invited me for supper, but it was so greasy and gamy I could barely get it down. Everybody else loved it. Dumb Yankee, just don't know what good food is.

Dang Terry G you done made me hungry.

Now I'll have to git out the ol'.22 and a light and go a huntin' after midnight. :D

[neolithic hunter]

When I skin the coons they're very greasy! They have a ton of fat on them, especially with their winter coats.


did you ever think about stopping one. then you pull your pistola out and demand there coat. coat jack them like they do in LA.

[Gregh]

neolithic hunter,
It took me a second to understand that one!! :nyah:

Good one.

[ASPHALT COWBOY]

Greg, just came across this. Try Bar-B-Que'd coon, I give them about five minutes in the pressure cooker to tender them up and pull out some of the fat, though not required just my preference, but don't drain, flood off with more hot water. Then coat with rub and or BBQ sause of choise the remaining fat will drip off onthe grill.

[Gregh]

Damn Cowboy, you got me HUNGRY now!!
I'll be going out in March for about 4-5 days, so hopefully I'll get plenty of coons. :madeuce:

[KJUN]

From more experience than I want to admit to, raccoon is best fried and BBQ. Baked is OK, too. Clean it getting most of the fat off (just like deer, etc.), cut it up, boil it with bay leaves, and then cook it (fry or BBQ or baked with potatoes, bay leaves, etc.) I like it so much, I planted a redbay tree (cook with the leaves and makea soporific tea with the wood) in my front yard!

KJ

[Gregh]

Now I'm hungry, thank you!

[brass hammer]

great pics gregh, that was a damn fine haul, you[2] guys had laid out on the table! i've eaten coon several times,although not lately.

now the oppossum is 'not' on MY menu, as we were drinkin' [1] night and stopped to take a leak, an there was a dead bloated deer along the road , an [1] ol'boy kicked it and [3] oppossums shot hell bent for election straight out of the dead deers ass, man was it FUNNY1[AND SMELLY TO BOOT] as that dude started doing the mexican hat dance freakin'-out!

[Gregh]

Holy crap, that would be funny as hell!!! :bird:

[brass hammer]

oh,****! man, was it ever! we'd start laughin' at HORNER for about a year afterwards[he had red hair] and we'd start laughin' again an he'd get as red as a coke can laughin' with us :)