Raccoon hunting's popularity growing, some say

 
By Ron Jackson
Published: April 26, 2008

TAHLEQUAH — Listen carefully during the night.

On any given evening in rural Oklahoma , where moonlight struggles through the trees, you might hear echoes of the rhythmic bark of coonhounds. There, the anxious race through twigs and branches doesn't end until the hounds halt at the foot of a tree. They might stop running, but the barking and howling becomes fevered. A flashlight beam frantically scans the branches u...


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