Educate me on Coon Dogs/ coon hunting

I'm glad I found this thread, ok so I got a BMC pup with the thought of hog doggin, I haven't given up that thought, but I haven't found the time to get him in the woods with other hogdogs, or a piglet to start working him in a pen at my place yet. Well, me and a friend put out some traps and got a coon yesterday. My dog is about 7 months old now, when we showed him the coon he went nuts, and when we dispatched the coon we dropped it out of the trap still kickin, he grabbed it and commenced to shakin it rough. Is this a good sign? I am salt curing the hide and am going to play with him and do some drags, want to see if he takes to them. Whenever we go in the woods he is always nose down on some kind of trail. I'm pretty sure he has some hunt in him, I just hope I can train him, never trained a huntin dog before.