Sep. 16—JEFFERSON — Raccoons throughout northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania found themselves up a tree this weekend, as a coon hunting competition came to the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds.

As dusk falls over the woodlot, you'll start to hear dogs barking and cruising fencerows in search of fresh scent. It’s the telltale sound of coon hunting, in which dogs trail raccoons up into the ...

No one can really say when it all began in earnest, but coon hunting has been a staple of families since the pioneer days. Raccoons have long been hunted for their valuable fur and tasty meet. A large ...

You go out with coon dogs a dozen times, or maybe a hundred times, and the results are just so-so. Sure, you have fun. You strike coons and you chase them. You tree one 10 minutes after you put the ...

This story, “Jug Head — a Coon Dog!” originally ran in the January 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. IT WAS MAC who brought the new dog home. We had argued for a month, he and George and I, as to whether we ...

If you enjoy the bonding experience of seeing a young dog mature into a hunting sport, you may want to consider getting a coon dog. Efforts are underway to introduce more people to the sport of having ...