Chris Stoppelman says he'll never get the image out of his mind. It was early the morning of Sept. 18, and Stoppelman was on a nighttime coon hunt south of Gonvick, Minn., with his friend, Kila Butler ...

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 ...

In order to be buried at Coon Dog Cemetery in northern Alabama, a dog must have a proven track record for hunting raccoons. It's a tradition that... A Resting Place For Hunting Hounds In Alabama ...

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 ...

“Listen,” Uncle Sonny said, “the dogs are treed.” I was lying on my back, atop the dog box in the back of the truck, looking up at an inky black sky laced with uncountable numbers of twinkling stars.

1 of 4 — Franky Hatton and Cletis pose in front of the gravestones of Hatton's champion coon hounds at Coon Dog Cemetery. Seventy-five years ago, Key Underwood and his raccoon-hunting dog Troop had a ...