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Seriously doubt if the major auctions will be receiving much of a wave of prime, properly put up mink. There will be the bunch that will start soon as the season opens and take their carcass and/or skinned 'rats and mink to the local buyer or traveling 'rat wagon. Weighing $2 'rats and $10 mink they'll soon fold up when weighing fur check against expenses.
Next up will be those that will wait a bit, get out there and do a fair to good job with the catch and put up. They'll likely call it after a couple dozen mink and settle into the couch for the balance of the winter. Will sell to the 'rat wagon or send off to auction.
The group that will make a difference will more than likely be those mink trappers who have been waiting for this window of opportunity. Many of them realizing this might be the last hurrah in their trapping lifetime to match up a decent fur take with respectable prices offered. They'll be after 'em from November 'til the fur is no longer worthy of taking. Hoping the whole time the $40 average will be sustained through the later auctions.
If nothing else, there's a little excitement in the fur shed this year for the water trappers prepping for the upcoming season. Lets us be kids again.
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9 minutes ago
Looking for an auger to dig pockets in river banks. 4-6 inch diameter. Durable. What do yall use?
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12 minutes ago
Doesn't look like a touk to me.
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If you haven't been following some people are saying that AI is going to take a hit. They are saying this b/c whatever company took loans to support kicking off their company leading in AI. The people loaning that money are seeing that those large companies are losing money or about to start losing money and are wondering how they are going to get their money back. i.e. what if Big Company X borrowed a quatrabillion dollars to be a leader in AI but their company is starting to lose money and having the AI they do have now isn't increasing their profits, they are actually going negative. Anyway thats what some people are saying. The people that are saying it are also saying hey please realize that some of these funds that people just sit on and hold to forget about and collect money (i.e. the old way of investing) are at risk b/c those funds are heavy in these big companies, that might take a hit. Thats what some people are saying. I don't know how this effects you or what you should do but google around and see what you think. In a paraphrased Nvidia example... Nvidia borrows money, and they say hey Nvidia customer Z you should invest in AI, here is some money b/c were partners, then customer Z takes the Nvidia $ and says hey thanks... here Nvidia this is an order for the new AI chips we need (and gives them their own money back, which Nvidia reports as "chip sales"). Anwyay thats what some people are saying if you haven't heard. Google around and see what you think if this is news to you if you like. Im sure there are other sides of the issue to learn about but you should at least know this is going on (if you don't and maybe I shouldn't assume you don't but I'm guessing someone on here somewhere hasn't heard this.) Thanks. ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2026/07/full-24446-297107-tech.png)
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39 minutes ago
Good morning
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40 minutes ago
Happy Birthday
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41 minutes ago
No money for me but see some for my daughter, mother, uncle and cousin
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1 hour ago
Runnin like it ate some Taco Bell lettuce. Yes! He has his butt tucked in like “oh no!!”
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1 hour ago
Departed from this world. RIP, Savell.
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1 hour ago
We had to put slip plate on a dump bed to get wood chips to slide out. It's a graphite coating.
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[quote=Pete in Frbks]I spoke too soon yesterday when I posted on this thread. It had only been coons until supper time last night!
I heard a racket at the garage and looked out to see a 275-300 pound bear dragging off a trash can I had just set in the garage an hour before. I got the shotgun and "encouraged" him to be elsewhere with a couple of cracker shells. Apparently the noise (or possibly the smell of singed bear hair) was upsetting to him. He left and has not come back. Yet...
Pete Pete I have one of those cracker shells. I find it works best in my 870 if I put the cracker in the magazine first, follow it up with a buckshot shell and then put another buckshot in the barrel. That way I still have a cracker shell for next time. Eric: I like the way you think! Pete
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1 hour ago
Youll be alright after a bout of explosive diarrea,lol Here we call that Birthing Canadians...
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It’s a lot easier to control the masses if you can keep them off balance all the time and struggling,one struggle after another,while relentlessly taxing. There’s a conspiracy ahoof ,I don’t care what anyone says.
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2 hours ago
Last couple trucks I've owned had AC...I almost never use it, even when it's "dangerously" hot, lol...usually only on a longish trip to get bait and I want to listen to the radio,  How many here use it ?, occasionally?, all the time?, turn it up, or cold as it gets?... I use it all the time, I just put a new compressor in my “99” S-10…$900, use it or it will go bad from hardly using it.
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5 hours ago
I was at the Fur Takers convention in Iowa a couple years ago. A father and son had a skunk pole that consisted of two 3/8-inch Fiberglas rods held together with what I’d call a couple plastic figure 8 clips. A syringe was glued to the end. They wanted ~$25 for it. The material cost looked to be <$10. I didn’t buy one but I remember the design in case I need to build my own
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5 hours ago
We use decoy cord. Or thick string.
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7 hours ago
Greencounty, I’m not assuming anything, I’m just reading recorded and tracked data. 2/3 of inmates are Christian so again, it’s safe to say that some sang in Sunday school choirs.
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7 hours ago
Stop eating carbs like rice, beans, bread. Eat as much meat as you can. You won't feel hungry and the pounds will fall off. You can eat lettuce, spinach, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, pork rinds too. Mushrooms too.
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7 hours ago
TTT. Last time up then back on the book shelf for another year.
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TTT. Last time up and then back on the book shelf for another year.
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7 hours ago
Wow! Just Wow!
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7 hours ago
Its definitely witchcraft. Around here, it wasn't that long ago that they were bound and thrown in the creek. If they sunk and drowned, they weren't witches. If they floated, they were witches and then burned at the stake. It went out of favor after a short period of time once there weren't many women left. The men of that time period had to go back to suffering just like the rest of us do.
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