Had 3 western heavy coyotes travel a long ways to Kansas. First lot semi's,majority 1 page semi heavy. So much for me only having commercial coyotes,lol.

Hey if you are upset about them western heavy coyotes you can move them over to my account.

I found out I don't know a thing about grading coon. I thought and have told people that this year's coon are some of the worse I have caught as a whole collection. They all seemed to have tick bites, small pin holes, scabs from old sores, just plain ugly on the leather side. When I was taking furs off the boards my daughter would wipe down the coon and for her effort I let her pick 3 coons out and I put them in the extra account and she will get the money. She asks, which ones and I said any one's you think are look good, she picks 3 coons with, IMO not one blimish on the what so ever. All 3 off those coon graded I-II, the other 42 coon were put on the other account and 17 went select, 5 went I's. I know there is a lot more than just leather that goes into the grading, but I am disappointed for her.

Also I caught 4 cats off the same property with 75 yards of each other, 2 went western and 2 went southwestern. To bad they were last years kittens, not very big all measured in at larges

This is not a complaint, overall my grades are better that expected can't wait for next week

No all the commercial ones were down here apparently! Lol. Did have some Coons grade a bit better than I thought though.

Curious if they graded any northern or mostly north central on your coon?

tbn most of my coons went western north central and semi. Only had one go northern. That's how it's been that last two years for me, before that I would generally have half go western northern and the other half western north central. I didn't have one grade semi until last year. This isn't a big sample size only 40-130 each year.

What is difference on beaver between a slight an slt? Seems like bigger 3xl beaver get graded hard there,or at least ones I got an lm an meduim on down good, what are auction beaver going for? I pretty happy with grades on everything else, I don't see coon colors graded 5 nomore, just 1 though 4, how good is 3 color

I thought all my 3xl beaver were graded harder than normal as well.

I believe the difference is the "damage" (loosely used term) is either on the leather or on the fur side

Curious, where do you think the "commercials" are in the nafa catalogs?

I would say the semi heavys. Everyone tells us we have a semi heavy commercial coyote in Kansas. Year in and out my coyotes get graded semi heavy at NAFA

I had a couple go Western/Nothern but most in Western/north Central. Also had a handful in semi-heavy

I wish everyone the best of luck
May the competition be fierce

On the 1 of the 2 big beaver, I could not get all tough fat off without risk of cutting though, so I came back for several days after with dull knife an squgee out fat while stretched an did leave marks, anytime u do that,it leaves marks on dry hide, could the marks cause it to be downgraded?

U would think alot the heavy big jumbo selects an 1s, coon well sell an hopefully not just better colors

Something is strange.

I had 8 coyotes from Northern MT on this sale and 3 were graded as 3xl eastern. There was not 1 that was a 35 lb coyote,!!!
and 1 graded as a "red"

Hmm. Really don't think my pick up guy should be handling my furs once bagged!!

I have coon graded as northern, north central an new grade as western semi, what difference between a north central an a Western semi ? Never notice this in past

The North centrals will sell and your semi heavies may not. LLL

I felt my rats were on average a tad smaller than last year. This year the size grade is averaging a bit better than the last two years and my grade is much higher than the last couple years.
In the past better grade and size indicated a up word moving market. We don't have long to wait now.
I caught very few coons this year. I had 1 Western Northern and all the rest 14 were western north centrals with no 11 grades, but color was pretty average for me which is not so good.
Bryce

I can't rember anyhow this semi heavy grade in this area before, maybe something new nafa started,i heard semi heavy but not around here