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.

Frankie Card of Johnsonville lives in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, but has grown to like the Midlands, especially the Orangeburg County Fairgrounds and the Grand American Coon Hunt. Card and ...

A lot of my puppies are used for hunting which is what the breed was bred to do They hunt mainly for food and to protect the property from vermin coming in like raccoons possums that would destroy the ...

"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 ...

Bobby Cotton has found a way to turn his hobby into a positive model for children in his hometown. Cotton is the “Coon Hunting Preacher.” “I’ve used this in a way as a ministry situation,” he said. He ...

Finally, coon hunters can join pointer, retriever and flushing dog trainers in conducting controlled pre-training before going on an actual hunt. This can save years of mistakes and corrections and ...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Coon hunting is a sport that brings people from all over Orangeburg County every year for its annual Grand American. Ray Conrad has been a vendor there for over 30 years and has ...

Nobody seemed tired, even well after midnight. Perhaps it was the post-hunt camaraderie. Or maybe it was the chili and beef stew. Even the youngest ones seemed spry. More than 150 people crowded into ...

The small campfire penetrated the surrounding darkness but offered little respite from the winter weather. The cold bit noses and ears while frost shrouded the trees of the surrounding forest. My ...

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 ...