Maine coon cats?

[NF1E]

Before the invention of the GPS tracking collar, how did Maine coon hunters find their cats when they treed a coon?

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

My dad and i used to hunt coons with hounds. Many great times. I still remember some of the nights out. My wife and i had 2 main coon cats for pets.

 

[ONE-TEN]

You use Main Coon Cats to hunt raccoons?

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

From the OP it sounds that way. Our coon hounds would change to their treeing bark. When the coon was treed. When they were running a coon they had a different bark. . We would try to follow the best we could.

 

[NF1E]

Just a weird yolk guys. One of those days. Friend convinced me to shoot M-14 gi chrome lined standard barrel iron sight today with German surplus NATO ammo. Never know what might happen. Shot without glasses using .042 rear aperture at 100 yds. Whatta Hobby!

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

Wow nice shoot'n with the irons.

 

[ONE-TEN]

Well, anyway, I’ve never heard of using Main Coons to hunt with. Only Hounds. Sorry, but if using cars to hunt IS a practice in use, I’d have to give that a big THUMBS DOWN on the ethics vote. Regardless of their size, they are still domestic cats. The biggest Main Coons I’ve heard of are just over 30lbs. While the biggest Raccoons can get up to 35lbs! And while hunting hounds chase & TREE the raccoons, a Main Coon cat can follow right up the tree! And raccoons can downright VICIOUS when put to the test.

Nah… sorry. Gonna have to classify that one as Bad Form indeed!

 

[Alan]

I've only known hounds not domestic Maine coon cats. That'll be interesting to know.

 

[ONE-TEN]

Yeah, I can’t see it.

On that same topic of using animals to hunt, there is a guy on YouTube who uses Mink to hunt rats! It’s incredible. These Mink are taking rats their own size almost. Incredibly powerful little suckers!

Wanna watch some entertaining Mink hunting Rats videos, this is the channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@JosephCartertheMinkMan/videos

 

[NF1E]

It was supposed to be a joke to start off a new month.

 

[Alan]

Ooooohkay. You got me.

 

[ONE-TEN]

Yo igual.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Ha! I've been privy to Arts humor in the past.....got it right away...and he showed one of his fine M1A/M14 Builds!

If I recall correctly he was a USMC Air Winger.....Phantoms?....way before crayon eating so he is....legit sane.....

 

[NF1E]

Ha! I've been privy to Arts humor in the past.....got it right away...and he showed one of his fine M1A/M14 Builds!

If I recall correctly he was a USMC Air Winger.....Phantoms?....way before crayon eating so he is....legit sane.....

Yep, me at Chu Lai 1967. Whatta Hobby!

 

[WNYBILL]

Coon Hunting, the kids had some high priced hounds and St Sandra and I used our 70 lb Airedale house dog. He was silent on the trail and would bark treed. Almost always caught one on the ground and brought it back to us and would tree 2-3 in an hour. Mom and Dad 3-4, Kids 0, but they drank more beer! Raggs, the Airedale, was a stone-cold impressive killer. One night he found a coon in a trap, killed it and pulled the stake and brough the whole works to us. We could hear him in the creek and it took him 10 or 15 minutes. Trap was trespassing and no name. DIL has a Maine Coon Cat, he is impressive too! No match for a 35 lb coon!