Orrum, That's just about the way to cook a raccoon.
When I lived in the New Jersey farm country, I knew a farmer's son
that would take his vacation from Los Angles back home in the spring.
He said he hadn't missed eating kit hogs he shot and his mama cooked
for the last 8 years. They must be tasty.
I shot 22 pigs one summer getting ready for my first deer hunt at 15.
I have had them chew thru the shaft while trying to pull them back out of the hole.
Very tough critters.
Osage-- Looks like you took the whistle out of those pigs.