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No tail coons.

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:22 am
by bowtech36
I forgot to ask..how often do you catch coons with no tails :lol: We had three this weekend! why do you think they have no tails? Fights, born with it?

Re: No tail coons.

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:12 pm
by bobbercrazy23
I just trapped one here awhile back and he had his tail tore completely off and it was fresh, and it's breedin season for them so i would say a fight and we caught another big bore that had 2 legs and his tail missin but there it looked like he had got caught in a hydraswing during hay season

Re: No tail coons.

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:05 pm
by bowtech36
he was still alive with with two legs missing? Pretty resiliant booger!

Re: No tail coons.

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:12 pm
by huntfish8
I have cought 3 or 4 without a tail.one was a pup he wasent very far up a tree but what I could see he was probly born that way.

Re: No tail coons.

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:16 pm
by bowtech36
It's interesting to see them with no tails. Non typical raccoons lol :D

Re: No tail coons.

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:31 pm
by riverrun1986
Treed one had a kid shoot and he knocked off the tail never could find it again the next season i killed a no tailed coon couple trees away from where that happend