What’s the most you have got for a put up possum? I think I sold some in 1979 for $6.00. I even picked up roadkills back then.

I was fleshing/ boarding a few today....they’re always good for a dollar now

$25 alum tanned.

Best price I ever got was last year at 6 bucks for one but he was over 36" buyer thought he was a coon at first

I've got some at NAFA you can have if they'll ever let them go...

Boco, you don’t have possums that far north?

$8,around 1979.

$6.00 nosecount, probably around 1979, I don't remember the year.

$12.00 years ago at NAFA. I use to send hundreds to them. Caught them in coon sets and hated to waste them. Easy to put up!

1979 8 DOLLARS. I REMEMBER LITTLE OLD LADIES IN CADILLACS BRINGING THEM TO MY UNCLES FUR CENTER!

I sold a lot for 5-7 dollars in the late 70s. Could by a dozen 1 1/2 montgomerys with a night's catch of 'possums.

$7 in the early 80s...
We skint.everyone.we.caught.
Didn't get that for all of'em but they
paid for gas...

$6.50 a few years ago when fur prices were up

I got $10.00 for one at NAFA maybe 5-6 years ago.

think it was $5.00 in 78 or 79. whatever year we were getting $14.00 for muskrats.

I said I sold them not caught them.

sent 3 to NAFA a few years back maybe 5 or 6 ago...high 10.00 total 24.00 for an 8.00 avg

One year, back in the nineties, I caught a very big opossum, within the top 4 biggest opossums I ever caught. I took it to my buyer in the round. He said "That's the biggest opossum I have seen in years. I'll pay twice what I pay for a normal opossum for that one." He gave me $2.00 for it.

Keith

In New Zealand they have a variety of possum that they mix with Merino wool. Think they call it possum mink. It is very soft. I believe they have fur on their tail also.

10.00 at NAFA. I remember dad having a lot sell for $9.00 at the Arkansas sale back in 79.

Geez thats better than coon

$1 for me. What do they use the fur for anyways ? cheap trim died to look like other fur ?

Sold an albino possum on taxidermy website many years ago for 50.00

I avg. 7.50 a few years ago ,I think 2013 , an I had 72 that I put up that year

I sold a.lot of finished possum in 90s for $2 or so each. Easy to skin and man you had to really be light with the fleshing blade...more finesse than push or they would tear.
I remember then I could get more for possums than I could for finished fall rats, and possum were so much easier to catch but boy did they stink.
Jim

It shows on my nafa account that I sold one opossum for $4.50. But I’ve never got paid for it Does that count?

Almost
...but not yet
Crime in progress

Really .. $25. Wow

Lol

If I remember correctly, I sold 3 or 4 for $6.00 each in the early 80's. The next year, I put up a couple of nice one's, and was offered .10 each. Yes, ten cents. Those were the last possums I ever skinned.

$5 for whole possums. If there’s multiple people around, sometimes $7.

$10 a few years ago at NAFA, found out there’s no top lot awards for possums.

$13.50 , put up on a # 5 wire strectcher.
Weighed 14 lbs.
Would have been probably 1979-80.

At age 12 or 13 in eastern Arkansas during WWII most of my possums (put up) went for $0.50 each. At that time a dollar bought a lot, although my grandfather said he remembered when a man would work sunup to sundown for 40 cents a day, and that then $1 would buy more groceries than one man could carry. Oh for the days when people cooked from scratch. These days too many people too often play possum.