whats everyone thinking for prices and targets?

[charto]

Just wondering what everyone thinks as far as prices for different critters, I am here in south central ND, might be longlining to wy.
ND beaver will be low, yotes same  might be coon shines this year we will see. anyone got any thoughts on martin?

[Bogmaster]

 The Sept. NAFA auction will be an indicator of what is to come.Coon should be the best performer,along with gray fox. I expect rats to find a stable level,but nowhere near what last years early auctions produced.
 Tom

[charto]

thanks Tom for the input, I am wondering if it wouldnt just pay to target skunk lol at $10 a oz might just be a money maker


TomS

[The Poet]

                                  Gentlemen,

        In the later 80's down here in Texas,
 Coon were $12. Coyotes were $15. and Cat were a hundred.
I could go out with my hounds and make $24. a night for a couple of Coon.
Best night me and my two hounds ever had was $186.00
 worth of fur in one night,
6 Coon and a  Bobcat.

        The last time I sold my fur to the local buyer a couple of years ago,
everything was about the same but for Coon and Beaver.
He didn't even want Beaver, and Coon were $3.
Cat were up a little as were Coyote.
But with $3.  Coon,  I started tanning them myself as besides being a trapper
 I love to hunt Coon with hounds.
I don't have a market for them,
 but I am going to hunt Coon no matter what
and don't want to waste them,
 so I tan them myself.

      I figured since I make knives, when I have enough to rent a table at the gun show,
{ for $55.}
 I may as well have a bunch of Coon pelts hanging behind me as 'attention getters,'
 more than anything. Maybe I could sell a few but I never really expected to sell many.

         A two handed fleshing knife is down in Maypearl
 waiting for me to just drive down and get it.
And another order for Rittles EZ tan is drawing near,
  {next money I get.}
I have been re-learning the tanning skill as it has been years and I am getting it together.
I loved the article about the old washing machine with the wringer for washing pelts,
 and am all excited about the coming winter,
 having the fur shed in order and  planning on tanning all my Coon.
If nothing else I am determined to learn how to flesh hides properly  before I die.

       Now I just read that Coon prices are going to be good ?
                                  My question is:

      'Has the big over supply of 'Coon' sitting in warehouses
been used up,  and are Coon prices coming back'?



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[dcoonkiller]

I talked to my local buyer in Mississippi today and he said that coon are going to be around $8 tops, cats around $50, beaver, 5-8, otter 35-50, grey fox $30-35, reds $20. Its lookin to be a good year hopefully the markets will get cleared out real good and everyone want flood it with tons of coon and greys.

[charto]

Poet  do you remember the 70's?
75-100 dollar reds,  I remember getting 58 bucks for one coon and 9 dollars a rat, my guess is i was spoiled by those years....

[The Poet]

                 
                     DCoonKiller and Chacto,

         Thanks, it is looking like the over supply is easing.
 Now the only problem is the economy,
which may have been the reason for the over supply.

     Now I hear lots of fur goes overseas.
I was a kid in the 60's when I was learning about the trail and the trapline.
We never sold fur, didn't know who to sell it to.
We would hang them on our bedroom walls till all the hair fell out.
But I knew a guy...
 {uh oh, here he goes again}
{ And I get kicked off more forums? }
Something, in nearly every one of my 'rememberances'
 is offensive to someone.}

     But here goes,

      I would guess about 1975,
 I was driving past a place I had seen before and it had caught my interest.
 I had time so stopped into this old gas station.

             'Fur Buyer!'  the sign said,

     I gets out and this old guy old Ernie, came up to me and said:
 "Fill her up?"
     I says no sir, I am a trapper and have been seeing your sign
 every time I drive by,  and I just stopped to visit.
We talked and the most memorable thing he said,
 was when I asked him about the part of the sign that said:
 {House cats}

      You buy housecats?
Yup, old Ernie said.
How much?
Oh about $1.50 for a good one.
What do they do with house cats?
They send them over to China where they make
 'Rabbit coats' out of them.
Oh.


           Dern clever them Chinese.


                         Knife


       












         

[dcoonkiller]

Lol I wouldn't doubt it. There ain't ever no telling with them.

[charto]

LoL good story Poet I enjoyed your post

[The Poet]

         Thanks Chacto,
     {I got a million of-em}


                    Knife