Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 06:57 AM
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I'm guessing, "better" means a couple bucks more than last season for the 3X+, 1-2(A-B) colored coon. I will be leaving all of the coon for someone with a stronger back and weaker mind than mine.
"The voice of reason!"
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 07:19 AM
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I will do the poor market usual. I trap around a lot of feed yards, and if their numbers get to high they all get distemper and die. Usually that’s the year the market goes crazy! Probably take a hundred or so
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 07:48 AM
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I will trap and give some instruction like always. If you are in an area outside the triangle you may want to call a buyer first and see how the interest is. The market GFW is talking about is a trim market. Heavy NW or N central coon will be the driver. I will use my strong back and weak mind to kill a couple thousand again. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 08:20 AM
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I have a few places where the landowner wants them removed .So I will make an effort to catch them on those properties. Other than that I will be doing what Hobbie Trapper said .
Last edited by w side rd 151; 08/20/18 08:21 AM. Reason: grammar
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 08:28 AM
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Self will catch whatever coon put their hands in my DP's while I'm out on the beaver/otter line and those will have to be cherry picked. This price talk is the normal preseason mumbo jumbo IMO. I'm gonna do my usual thing the cards will fall as they may.
TC
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 08:56 AM
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I get a few in coyote sets, pretty much never set for coon
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 10:06 AM
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Adding cages to my line this year have not set cages for several years so expecting a few coons and a bunch of skunks barring any disease that may of came through that I missed. Going along that route for yotes anyways so the cost of running cages is minimal just the time to rebait, set and deal with the catch but that is where the payoff is.
This all depends on my buyer I sent him a email and he said 'No clue" yet but I have everything ready so just waiting on the word from him he writes the checks.
I'd say check with you local buyer and see what he plans on buying and if your coons are what the market is looking for or not, if he says go for it then ignore the naysayers and do what you think is right. With a sharp knife and a skinning machine a few extra coon are not a big deal really just gas extra money.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 11:57 AM
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Are there any projections that actually say semi heavies will be worth much of anything? Or is this just a select market for the super coon?
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 12:04 PM
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I’m gonna hit um like always.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 12:17 PM
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I like coon trapping myself. I could list a variety of reasons why I'm gonna trap them this season, but mostly it just comes down to, I like it. I'll focus on the larger prime boars, as far as what I keep. But that goes for all fur, we, as trappers, regardless of the market or species, have to present the best fur possible to keep any market. And the better the product, and the more consistent the product, the better chance for an improving market. My opinion of course.
I trap for fun. I skin 'em for the money! Grinners For Life-Lifetime Member, MO Chapter, Den #1 ~You Grin, You're In~
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 12:24 PM
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Are there any projections that actually say semi heavies will be worth much of anything? Or is this just a select market for the super coon? Pretty sure there is an abundance of coon in all sizes, colors and grades, with the exception of the best colored 3X+ from the golden triangle. If you have to ask where the golden triangle is, you, probably, ain't in it.
"The voice of reason!"
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: trapperkeck]
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08/20/18 12:48 PM
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Are there any projections that actually say semi heavies will be worth much of anything? Or is this just a select market for the super coon? Pretty sure there is an abundance of coon in all sizes, colors and grades, with the exception of the best colored 3X+ from the golden triangle. If you have to ask where the golden triangle is, you, probably, ain't in it. Which means our coon will be worth about $5 and down, lol. Got it.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 01:47 PM
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This years approach is the same as the last two years, wait until about Nov 1st (WI coon opens Oct 20) and hit high ground and non-water areas hard to pick-up more prime and larger coon. Grading has been pretty good for me the last two years doing this and the prices have followed.
Dave
Forever in debt to my Father who introduced me to trapping. May I be half the man he was.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: eastwood44mag]
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08/20/18 02:35 PM
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Meat is meat. Two kids and a wife now, and it beats buying pot roast. X2
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 06:04 PM
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i am going to do my best to lower the number to 2 coons per 1 mink. yeah i know, that ain't gonna happen.
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The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 06:34 PM
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I'm hoping to knock the snot out of them. They are starting to be a problem not waiting for price to dictate what needs to be done.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 07:32 PM
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Me2 Snowy. There are raccoons in my soup over here.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: MINK I LOVE]
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08/20/18 08:09 PM
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Going to Trap Like Always and Hunt my Redbone alot-[She Hates Coon] Coon Trapping has been good to me in this down Market I thought you were disabled? Must have been someone else. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: What’s your plans for coon this year?
[Re: Teddybear]
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08/20/18 09:29 PM
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I would predict that fresh,western, select quality, heavy furred, good colored, mid winter coons will be worth 50% more that last year................only problem is, 50% more of very little is still very little. Go get em' fella's! Having fun is sometimes as important as having money, I keep telling myself that every day. Just glad I'm not raising ranch fur. Apologies to all who are (just having a little fun).
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