I've told the story on these ***** before. So those that have read it before, please skip. My partner and I was out squirrel hunting and ran into this heard of ****. I have ran **** hounds for years so I have skinned my share of *****. These four would grade XXL. I remember when **** sold for real money. One friend of mine, no longer with us, once sold a **** at auction for $118.00 FOR ONE RACCOON! That was about 1974, 75.
I skinned these out and gave them to my deer butcher for his brother that was trapping some ****. I figure these averaged about 25 pounds each. When I handed them to my friend I told him to throw the bag on the scale. The four hides came in at 27 pounds. These four are NOT average Ontario ****. They are big no matter where you are hunting. I have shot bigger. but only one or two and not very much bigger. My biggest was 54 inches long when I hung the hide on a nail after skinning. Guys that have skinned lots of **** know that they do measure long when you do this but even so it was on whopper of a ****.
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