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Had a cold front move in late last night. Everything was moving.

Re: Not many left around here.

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Originally posted by RC-Abby
We had a disease in our overpopulated raccoons. Started summer of 2023 and lasted till midwinter 2024. Very few road kills compared to 2022 and before. I was taking 60 plus a season within a mile of my house. I don't hunt hard or long hours. Couple times a week 2 or 3 hours a night.

This year dogs have treed 4. All have been small kittens. I harvested 1, left the rest to tree again. Just wanted show you what over population and a disease will do. They are out there just few and far between.

We also lost our overpopulated deer to disease this past summer.

Happy Hunting
Randi

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Re: Re: Not many left around here.

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Originally posted by ScottCK 6
EHD got the deer , drought this year made it worse. It is not spread deer to deer, it has to be bitten by a midge , they inhabit mud in two inches of water or less! Always seem to have a bumper crop of young raccoons , but start disappearing when the deer hunters start their deer feeders up , they use the fly bait on them!

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Cheyenne, I was in your back yard Fri night at the Marsh and treed 3 coon a den and a slick. Only ran one track which was in the thick over cut stuff. The rest of the trees were layups. Pretty much the same deal Sat. Wed night I figured they would move before the front came in, never made a ground bark just made Den trees. Never saw a thing on the road to or from. Since Aug its been there either running every where and you can tree 5 or 6 without trying or there just sitting up in the dens and oaks and you need a dog that can tree layups . There are more coon now then i have seen in the last 10 or 15 yrs. We saw 18 coon in 11 trees made this fall one night. 9 of the 11 trees had coon in them the other 2 were i think honest dens. This was just a few miles from your house. Every coon I have knocked down is healthy as can be and big. I'm just hunting one dog.

Perry, I have kept a spread sheet with the Temp, wind, and humidity for about two yrs now. I haven't had a chance to sit down yet and look for a pattern. I did notice this summer that the coon always seemed to move when the pressure was at 29.1 to 29.9. So I started writing that down as well. I just keep a little memo pad in my vest and after I cut the dog go to the weather app and write down everything with the time in and time out every drop, as well as every tree made. I really liked the ODNR ohio hunt and fish app but it don't work for the weather half the time.