Yep,sold two weeks ago did a whole lot better than the sale..now that the cat market has been set it's going to be tough to do any better..but if you have XL pale heavy "A" belly cats you'll still do good..the coyote average was dissapoitong too compared to two weeks ago..

I'm going to be real interested to see what fur goes for in Fallon next week.

I agree a 100%

This should not be news to anyone, "A" cats are all that have been in demand for the last two seasons.

Yes sir it's what they been saying alright.
I was agreeing on better prices 2or 3 weeks ago comment.

how about A cats that only stretch 36?

True A cats even short ones, will do better than 40" B's

Jittery fur buyer stock market aftershocks?

The stock market's climbing again so I guess we'll see how it goes. With the dollar lower against foreign currencies hopefully the upcoming FHA and NAFA sales, with their foreign buyers, may be a different story than we just saw in Utah. Hopefully.

Stock market isn't going to help the inventory of B/C cats nobody wants.

I've never had a cat I've put up to get less than 100.

Also I've never had grade A- B+ cats go for mid 200's.

Top cat that was the best I had ever gotten was only 630. Too many cats, buyers market.

There were a lot of young guys that started trapping cats in the boom years and didn't know anything different.
Do you remember the WY youngster that got on here and was telling us that even the worst western bobcat was worth at least $500

12 short years ago, the western basis was $450 no push, no bonus $450 that's the top. A good collection of 15 cats would average $200. Then the market blew up guys that never caught a cat were buying vehicles with cat money, things were awesome. Now the harsh reality is coming full circle and class of 2008 is seeing the way it used to be.

At a trappers fur sale in Olympia, Washington in 1973 or 1974, 3 very nice Idaho cats sold for $49.00 each. You should have heard the ohs and ahs. That was a record HIGH price at that time.

I think a lot of trappers got spoiled with $700,00 and $800,00 cats. Now they don't want to accept the reality of the market.

In the Parts of the 90s I was getting payed 85$ for cats .
In 1967 I got 35$ for my first bobcat
Imo fur market is like the weather it changes.

So what does this sale say about the coyote market? Dropping or not a particularly desirable collection?

I remember those days Kenneth I can remember one year in the mid to late 90s I sold a lot of 28 good cats for a hundred dollar average and was happy to get it

Mike yes sir happy is the word. I would use describe it also .
I also remember when I was happy they wanted to look at my coyotes again after the boom era too.lol

It’s not that I am unhappy. I’m just saying that I haven’t ever had a time when those numbers weren’t accurate.

I started in ‘08 and ever since then it’s been fairly constant above this years average.

.....both

I think Toms and CC said it best there is a line in the sand on quality.
Semis and commercials are going to take a ouch
And there is going to be some yahoo s and whining depends on what you got.