"coon fingered?" what? born and raise southern no clue

Lynn
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 08:30 (1650 days ago)

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Raccoons carefully finger and inspect

JT
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 08:33 (1650 days ago) @ Lynn

Their food before consuming. Hands carefully examining anything with the fingers has become known as "Coon fingering"

LOL, there is a video where they gave

WB
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 08:41 (1650 days ago) @ JT

a Racoon some "cotton candy". He was going to "wash" it and when it disappeared the poor Coon was truly perplexed.

My grandfather taught me to set a Victor trap with shiny tin foil and tie it off to a log across a creek, to catch a Coon. It's supposed to be very interesting to the Coonies.

CAT FOOD IN A PAN

BUCKWHEAT
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 09:07 (1650 days ago) @ WB

AND IT'S PRETTY INTERESTING TO WATCH'em
BUT TAKE THEIR PAN AWAY & JUST SCATTER THE FOOD ALL OVER THE GRAVEL & THEY GO ABSOLUTELY CRAZY -- PICK UP 2 OR 3 PIECES & THEN TWIRL AROUND & FIND A COUPLE MORE PIECES -- THEY'LL DANCE AROUND LIKE THAT FOR HOURS -- BY THE MORNING THEY'VE PICKED THE GRAVEL CLEAN
POSSUM JUST TAKES IT ALL IN STRIDE -- SLOW & METHODICAL -- FIND ONE -- MUNCH IT UP & THEN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE
DRIVES THE COONS BATTY

coonfingering

stonecold
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 09:12 (1650 days ago) @ Lynn

Good old southern term. Watch a video of a coon examining food or another interesting item and then a video of me looking at a new gun or knife and you will see the similarity.

Per urban dictionary

Glenn
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 09:39 (1650 days ago) @ Lynn

coon fingering
Incessantly playing with, toying with, examining, handling an object.

Removing a handgun from it's holster for no reason other than to display it to another person. "Stop coon fingering your gun"

73 yes south of the Mason/Dixon line-never heard the term

Winn
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 13:43 (1650 days ago) @ Glenn

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Winn, you are showing your age. Most folks under 30

Gary Reeder
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 14:09 (1650 days ago) @ Winn

have never heard of the Mason/Dixon line. Then again most under 35 have never heard of Bo Diddly either.

Yosemite Sam

Jim Taylor
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 14:22 (1650 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

very good and the 5 minute after that is

Gary Reeder
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 15:12 (1650 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

good too.

You are not alone. First time I ever heard that

Southern Boy
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 15:15 (1650 days ago) @ Winn

phrase was online by a gun dealer/trader or two, and only time I see or hear it to this day is on gun forums. I'm 68 and from deep south.

there are a whole lot of things we said (not

Gary Reeder
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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 16:44 (1650 days ago) @ Southern Boy

meaning anything by it) that we can't even think any more.

Oh, yes. Likely must say today "masked animal person".

Southern Boy
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Sunday, January 30, 2022, 10:07 (1649 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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