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Highest possum price? #6742483
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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

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742505
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$25 alum tanned.

Last edited by Boco; 01/24/20 02:56 PM.

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Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742508
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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

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742516
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I've got some at NAFA you can have if they'll ever let them go...


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Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Boco] #6742521
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Boco, you don’t have possums that far north?

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742524
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$8,around 1979.

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742563
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$6.00 nosecount, probably around 1979, I don't remember the year.


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Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742568
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$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!


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Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742637
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Originally Posted by Bigbrownie
Boco, you don’t have possums that far north?

blush

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: teepee2] #6742644
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1979 8 DOLLARS. I REMEMBER LITTLE OLD LADIES IN CADILLACS BRINGING THEM TO MY UNCLES FUR CENTER!

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742668
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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.

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: gryhkl] #6742725
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$7 in the early 80s...
We skint.everyone.we.caught.
Didn't get that for all of'em but they
paid for gas...

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742744
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$6.50 a few years ago when fur prices were up

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: trapper234] #6742750
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Originally Posted by trapper234
$12.00 years ago at NAFA.


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


Eh...wot?

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742894
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think it was $5.00 in 78 or 79. whatever year we were getting $14.00 for muskrats.


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Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742905
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I said I sold them not caught them.


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Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742929
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sent 3 to NAFA a few years back maybe 5 or 6 ago...high 10.00 total 24.00 for an 8.00 avg

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6742979
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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

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6743237
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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.

Re: Highest possum price? [Re: Bigbrownie] #6743315
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10.00 at NAFA. I remember dad having a lot sell for $9.00 at the Arkansas sale back in 79.


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