Just curious on what you guys do at the end of the year... I send all my fur in to get tanned and sell it from there. Of course I always have a keep a few. I gotta keep at least one from every species. Do you guys ever keep some of your catches ?

I have one of everything that I have caught, usually my first. Missing a few, and waiting for something cool for the coon and possum. Missing a red fox, because my first had mange, and a grey fox, otter. Other than that, I sell everything unless its something unusual. Last year, I caught a blond yote that was almost yellow. I was going to keep it, but it had a bad snare mark by the hips.

Almost exclusively. To make hats, scarves, mitts etc.

I tan 75% of my catch. I sell some and give some as gifts.
But I keep a lot for ME. As lv said, I LOVE FUR.

I get most if it tanned and then roll around in it naked

Just kidding didn't mean to make you all uncomfortable

I tan most and sell them. Keep a few if something special

Sell some raw to groeny

So anyway...

Yes, I keep small beaver for gifts, and have a couple real nice coyote/wolves (my first one)

Also have a couple fisher tanned here. I will keep the nicest one. Also, got a skunk this year. Now, most people that's not a big deal, but it's literally the first one I have ever heard of within 30 miles, let alone on my line seven miles out on an island. So tanning that one to prove I actually got one haha

That was a good laugh!!

Yes my daughter wants the first of everything, kept all my beaver last year hoping to get a comforter made when I get another permit.

I get all my fur tanned. Keep a few for wall hangers. I have those hooped by Muskrat. The rest I have been sewing into blankets and giving as gifts to my kids and extended family.

The first coyote I ever caught I had a full mount done. The second one I caught I had it tanned and is hanging on my wall. The biggest coyote I ever caught, 42 lbs I also had tanned and is hanging on my wall. One time I caught a little female and had a shoulder mount done. I caught a pretty nice red fox and had it tanned, it’s on my wall too. Right now I’m waiting on a full mount gray fox, a pretty big male, I called in hunting at night.

Sold every stick of fur I’ve ever caught except the ones I made in to hats I sold.

I just started and plan on keeping the 4 bobcats I've caught so far, with all the time I spent catching them you'd have to offer me a small fortune to part with them.

I am planning on keeping my first catches for each species and tanning them myself for wall hangings. I already have a coon waiting to go. I have a few of my dad’s old traps that he used years ago that I used to catch it and am going to hang with it.

I keep a few each year.My tanning bill was just shy of 3g for this years.

We only keep the unusual stuff anymore for ourselves..

. Last year it was a huge Super blanket beaver...and a black coyote.

Other than that we ship it to NAFA or we sell diirect to a few buyers in specialized markets.

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I keep the best 2-3 of everything I've caught. Compare each years harvest quality w/ the best ones I have & if a new one I just caught is better, I tan that & sell the old best one I had.