Had six coons and a coyote come in and eat persimmons last night. Poor deer are missing out. Watched two coons climb up to the very top and dangled for their meal. It was pretty funny. I snapped some photos.

Well bring on the photos.    

I want a pic of you eating one of the persimmons from the top of the tree, one of the hard ones.  

Have you ever eaten a green persimmon before?

Let's see them pics!!!!!  

Stay on that persimmion tree TJ, they are a big buck magnet!!!!!!!!!!    

Dave C

way cool but we need pics      

I'll post them tonight. At work at the moment and my camera is in my backpack at home.

Dave, I know the deer love them. Problem is we have a lot of them on this farm and its hard to pin them down at the moment. Nuts everywhere also. This is one of the best mast crops I ever remember. Food is good for the hunter unless its everywhere. There are going to be some record body sizes killed this fall/winter.

I had a trail cam on a persimmon patch for a week or so in late September. Had possums, raccoon, red fox, and deer in the pics.  Should have killed a big ole doe the first time I hunted the location but she "sensed" me in the tree at 15 yards.

Unlike some of you more experienced traditional folks, I still have 34 years of compound-slow built into my shot as I enjoy my return to recurves -- very deliberate and it has cost me at least 4 shot opportunities so far this year.

Pictures added.

Years ago I had a stand in an oak next to a persimmon tree. Every night a racoon came to that tree, climbed out on the limbs and smelled one persimmon after another . Whenever the smell was right, about one in ten, he ate it. It was like a friend coming to visit. Sometimes he was only a few feet away from me.

Love that pic of the, " masked bandit ", reaching out for his prize !

Great pics, looks like a good set-up. Thanks for sharing.

that is great gotta love the outdoors

QuoteOriginally posted by NoCams:
Love that pic of the, " masked bandit ", reaching out for his prize !

Me too. That's my favorite photo of the bunch.

I watched a coon fall out of a persimmon tree, about 20 feet and stuck itself in the mud on the edge of the bayou I was hunting.  After getting itself free of the mud, it climbed back into the same tree.  I had to sit down in my stand, to control myself from laughing so hard.    

LOL....Great pics.

QuoteOriginally posted by Cherokee Scout:
Years ago I had a stand in an oak next to a persimmon tree. Every night a racoon came to that tree, climbed out on the limbs and smelled one persimmon after another . Whenever the smell was right, about one in ten, he ate it. It was like a friend coming to visit. Sometimes he was only a few feet away from me.

John, exactly these guys were doing the same. They would grab one and pull it to their noses and test to see if they were ripe. If not they would move onto the next.

Way too cool!

I found a couple of persimmon trees and hunted near them one night last week.  I saw 7 or 8 deer (they came from upwind and downwind) and they all stayed away from the trees.  I thought they'd be right under me, but no dice.

Mr. M. They tell me you need a frost before they will ripen up. Not sure if that is true or not but the deer know when they are ready. If they are not ripe they are very bitter and no critters will eat them. I don't hunt them until I find multiple piles of scat under them. Until then you are wasting your valuable hunting time.