Episode 27: Roundups, Racoons, and opinions

On this episode we talk about the Noxubee Farm Supply racoon round up. We discuss our strategy, the acres we covered, and our opinion on the backlash not only from nonhunters, but most vehemently from the coon hunting community. We have coon hunters that hunt the ground we trapped and hunted during the round up, there are still plenty of coons to tree. We all have our particular species that we are passionate about, and we should respect each other as well as nature and the resources. The teams in the roundup were spread out across more than r 20,000 acres & 6 counties. The population was not wiped out, we are still getting pics of coons on cameras we are running for deer herd inventory. We are still trapping some of the properties. The pics made it look a little more dramatic than it was.
We also talk about turkeys and how we try to help sustain populations where we hunt. It's a combination of habitat management and self control when it comes to hunter harvest. Make all you can, take as few as you can. It's really that simple.

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I really hope that this podcast gets out and the houndsmen in this area ban together and boycott this co-op.

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Still plenty of raccoons on the properties we manage. We haven't taken any opportunity away from a houndsman.

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I guess “plenty” would depend on the woodsman’s perspective that you are asking.
As far as not talking away ANY opportunity away, that definitely isn’t true.
I know that the United Kennel Club holds a very large competition hunt in Starkville Mississippi every year, where the top prize is around 50,000 in cash and hunting equipment. One of the biggest deciding factors in where to hold these hunts is the Coon population, and the opportunity to put cast of hounds in thick Coon. I would dare to say that very many Coon “round ups” massacres like this and it definitely effects the ability to tree several Coon in a 1 or 2 hour hunt. Causing UKC to look at a more Hound friendly area of the country to hold such hunts, therefore negativity effecting the local economy.