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Its been -5 F last couple nights and +5F during the days. Kill season just closed. I was staying around the house but got pretty bored not hunting and took a walk late afternoon yesterday and coons have been down and moving! Must be rutting. If it warms up some night soon ill be back out see if i can get some boars up.

Our season goes out at the end of this month. I have been killing a few in the cold. Rut gets them down.

I catch em when it's cold but it seems like they don't go to trees. I catch most coon in brush piles when it's cold.

Well believe or not fellas, but the Coons out where I used to run umm would move all year long and all day long for that matter. Looking back in my log books I can't really put a pattern as to when they or why they hold up. I will tell you this thoug, the more I didnt wanna be out due to weather the fewer Coons I would catch. Which makes sense but not as much sense as I would of thought. So for example I might catch 8 to 10 coon out of there den on what I would consider ideal conditions. And 6 to 8 coon out side there den in what I would consider the other most opposite side of that spectrum. Again this is just looking at my logs and trending averages. One thing is for sure though. I never did catch anything unless I left the house.

Happy hunting men.

The colder it is the earlier in the night they tend to come out. When it is cold watch the wind. When it is over about 8-10 mph and 0F or below good luck you will end up at a lot of den trees and not to many coons on the out side. If it is calm you are good to 0F but they come out early often in the afternoon before it is dark. I am much farther south then you so the gauge may be a little colder for you but hear this is a fairly solid bet. Unless you go to brush piles or old houses with one dog. You can do this during the day and the colder the better. Smaller dogs like Jägers are better for brush piles. In a house one good locate dog. When you find the big pile of them in a wall or in the floor there can be a lot.

Old farm machinery and cars in the river banks are good to.

Ed you mountain of man, that is for sure one thing I failed to mention. The time of day they run relative to temparure. And aslo wind factor. The colder it gets the greater that wind plays a factor on animals out moving. But I agree with you 100%, if it's cold enough you might only find dens if you wait till after dark to go hunting. Anyhow have a good one fellas.

Up in SK we have almost zero luck when the temp stays cold, however even when it is -40F and warms up to zero or +5F during the day, that is enough of a temperature swing to get the coons moving. Interesting that some members noted they hold up in brush more so in the cold than in trees, and I would say that for the prairies in Canada, that would be true from what I have in my log book as well.

To me if you are concerned with them moving or not, its not a specific temperature that they will come out or not, its really based on if there is a significant temperature change that can be enough to get them out and moving. Certainly, if the weather sucks to be out there and you stay at home, you will never catch anything either.