Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An old illustration showing two coonhounds fighting with a raccoon in a river. (Illustration by John Gould / Outdoor Life) You go ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I overheard a group of fellas in a restaurant talking about the 40th Grand American Hunt and Show that is scheduled for Jan. 7-8. They were boasting about their beloved dogs, and one of the guys said ...

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 ...

DARRACOTT – More than 80 years of hunting and who knows how many coon dogs through those decades paid off for Buddy Mobley, who was recently inducted into the Professional Kennel Club’s Hall of Fame ...

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 ...

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 ...