"Some of the best coon dog trainers on planet Earth live in these mountains," the ad says. "They've forgotten more about coon hunting than most people learn in a lifetime." The ad also says ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It was Christmas Day when Wattsburg resident Kayla Zocki’s Australian shepherd jumped out of her Jeep and took off into the woods. “I put it on every social media thing I could think of. I put it on ...

This forest of pine and hickory in the hills of north Alabama isn’t necessarily where these coonhounds used to hunt. While some spent dark and dewy nights of yesteryear sprinting after raccoons and ...