big boar coon

[Kyle]

I was pulling my muskrats traps today as I will not be able to check them until monday. All of a sudden I hear some rustling in the cattails just in front of me. I see black and white and think " oh no a skunk". I yell get out of here! Then I realize its a coon, and it's stuck in a trap. I had forgot that I had set 2 1.5's on muskrat resting spot. Well needless to say, this monster of a boar coon gets caught. So I dispatch him, and look him over. Biggest, best looking coon I've seen, but he only had 3 inches of tail left. Not sure if it was from a coyote or himself, but it was fresh, and something had chewed his tail off. Anyone ever have this happen, or have any ideas of what happened?

[Random guy]

Same thing happened to me two days ago on a problem call. Big ol racoon but no tail. Then yesterday I caught one that I swear somebody took a clippers to and shaved a streak across his his back sideways.

[lichen fox]

The martians are back! First they catch all of the furbearers...the ones with missing tails and fur are the ones that got away...next they'll take all the big bucks out....they usually take the bucks the nite before season opens!

[Random guy]

Same ones that move the fish right before a guide trip?

[Kyle]

LOL

[Scott K]

Could it be possible that his tail was also in the trap at one time, and he chewed it off? I have had them chew their legs off before.

[Kyle]

I guess its' possible but I didn't see the other part of the tail anywhere...

[Random guy]

Mine was an old wound, my guess is if you spent a week in a racoons life it would be pretty intereting.

[The Grebe]

Chew their foot off, or chew their leg off? In my time trapping, I caught a ton of raccoon and never had one chew it's leg off, but I did have em chew their toes off under the trap jaws. Lots of small bones in the foot...a very big, solid bone in the leg!