i've skined quite a few coons but i don';t no if i'm ready to do it in the woods!! just wanted to see who skins them where or if they do at all! some itmes i can sell them hole!

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i always skin my coon in the feild just cause they're easier to carry and if you take a piece of 2 and a half foot string and tie the ends together you can hang the coon on a tree limb and pull the hide right off

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Always in the woods. Its too much like work carrying them out. lol. I hang them with a really small chain with S hooks on both ends and I can pull on them has hard as I want and it won't break and never slips. Loop it around a small tree and hook one end, then loop it around the coons back foot and hook that end. A couple of nails for stripping the tail and a sharp knife are the only other extras you have to bring to the woods. Adam Frary.

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i just use a choke chain loop one end around a foots wrap around tree and loop around other foot and peel em

I hope after skinning them in the woods you are still keeping the meat. I know in Arkansas, you could lose your license for up to three years for throwing away edible meat. But I guess that is silly to think that we sportsmen would ever do something like that.

I skin all mine at home.It's safer and more light to skin at home.

i usually skin mine in the woods unless the pickup is close and im ready to go home then i will take the whole thing and skin it later. i have never heard anything about having to keep the meat. might be different where you live but i dk of alot of people that eat coon so i dont see y someone would want to keep it. but then again the way hide prices our i dk y we are even still skinning coons.

It depends on how far I am from the truck and how many I'm packin, but skinning them in the woods is my first choice.

Just wanted to correct you on the arkasas laws -- on fur bearing animals you dont have to eat the meat but you must make use any maketable fur
but i do like em barbecued

COONER340- just trying to follow up on your post about not having to keep the meat. I talked to Sheffield Nelson, the Vice Chairman of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commision, and he stated that a coon is listed as a game animal as well as a furbearer. Therefore, the laws on retaining edible meat does apply to coons. He did state that for first offense could only be a loss of hunting privaleges for 1 year, 2nd offense three years, and third offense a lifetime ban of all hunting and fishing in Arkansas. The following is an excerpt from the Game and Fish regulations Code Book which were adopted to the Arkansas Constitution as Amendment 35.


19.01 WASTING EDIBLE PORTION OF WILDLIFE PROHIBITED. It
07-80/12-05 shall be unlawful to allow the edible portion of any game, fish, bird or frog
normally consumed as food to go to waste. In addition, it shall be unlawful to
kill wildlife and discard any portion which has a legal marketable or
commercial value.
EXCEPTION:
(1) Crows, bobcats, coyotes and skunks.
(2) Squirrel tails, deer antlers, deer hides and feathers from nonmigratory
game birds legally taken.
(3) Nuisance wildlife taken in accordance with Commission Codes 18.09
and 18.09A.
(4) All rough fish (gars, bowfin, common carp, grass carp, bighead
carp, silver carp, suckers and drum) excluding buffalo.
PENALTY: $250.00 to $1,000.00.

Are there any other states that have this same law? Atleast Yall don't have to eat the skunks if you kill one. Seriously though this sounds like a law with a good principal, but coon should be excluded. Nothing goes to waste in nature. Most carcasses I leave in the woods are gone that night I bet. I think the coyotes really enjoy them. They had better hope I don't spot them before I leave though. lol. Adam Frary.

Whell then could you get in trouble if you only shot coons to eat and did not sell the hyde?