Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/17/20 06:26 PM
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I'll be 105. guess I won't be around to see the next price raise. LOL
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: The Beav]
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10/17/20 07:10 PM
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I'll be 105. guess I won't be around to see the next price raise. LOL I don't think you will miss much. A $30 coon average in 2044 won't be as exciting as $30 coon average in 1979.
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: jabNE]
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10/17/20 07:15 PM
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Gone are the days of $20 for throwing a carcass coon up on the grading table for sure.
Maybe the grading table but some taxidermist are paying that. I get $25 rough skinned for taxidermist. Same with fox. I get 20 per mink on carcass. Since I started selling to this gentleman coon alone cover a lot of my expenses. I don't know if any other taxidermist buy like him but can't hurt to ask them.
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/17/20 07:27 PM
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If the next fur boom is 2044 I’ll be 56. Perfect timing for me to take an early retirement and trap like a maniac
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: strike2x]
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10/17/20 07:29 PM
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Gone are the days of $20 for throwing a carcass coon up on the grading table for sure.
Maybe the grading table but some taxidermist are paying that. I get $25 rough skinned for taxidermist. Same with fox. I get 20 per mink on carcass. Since I started selling to this gentleman coon alone cover a lot of my expenses. I don't know if any other taxidermist buy like him but can't hurt to ask them. Do you catch a truck load a day and sell them to him daily or does he come clean out your walk ins at the end of season? LLL
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/17/20 07:39 PM
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I don't target coon, I just keep all I get in other sets. I skin and bag them. I do the same with fox. When I get a bunch we meet up and make the transaction.
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/17/20 08:18 PM
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We have so many coon here and they are really nice coon. Used to get a flat fee from local buyer as many as I could carry in the door nightly instead of grading. Last several years it was big bins at the buyer and he's throw them in the appropriate bins by grade and the price was based on what bin he put them in. Took about a pickup load to bring a good haul in. A good days catch was fun to make a whole bunch of trips from the truck to the back door of the buyer, and a good night should be a pretty full pickup. Nightly stop at the buyer after checking traps. No way I'd find a taxidermist to buy that many coon around here. LoL. Jim
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Dirt]
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10/17/20 09:40 PM
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I'll be 105. guess I won't be around to see the next price raise. LOL I don't think you will miss much. A $30 coon average in 2044 won't be as exciting as $30 coon average in 1979. In 1987 my dad told me that a 10 dollar average on green skinned coon was pretty good money. Fast forward 35 years and people would be trying to stack them up like cordwood for ten bucks. It seems trappers are impervious to inflation
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Steven 49er]
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10/18/20 12:24 AM
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[quote=Dirt]
In 1987 my dad told me that a 10 dollar average on green skinned coon was pretty good money.
Fast forward 35 years and people would be trying to stack them up like cordwood for ten bucks.
It seems trappers are impervious to inflation We're just duller than the inside of a fleshing knife, that's all.
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/18/20 06:55 AM
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All the hound hunters who said they did it for sport don’t hunt or have dogs anymore in this area . .Funny how that works . This darn greedy trapper however is still trapping. But I will not trap something with no value.
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/18/20 08:28 AM
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Putting more worthless coon on the already flooded market can only hurt us In the long run. Any incidental coon I take this year will be released. I'm not going to add to the problem.
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: Brad K]
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10/18/20 10:10 AM
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Is it a "flooded" coon market or a "no interest" market...? I don't think they are the same thing.
FHA was only offering 160k coon at the end of August sale and could only move about 10% (or less). Is that because the furriers are sitting on gobs of dressed coon hides or that there just isn't a major use for coon right now, with the Russians still not having much money vs the US dollar and the Chinese having their various problems. And well, the Western nations have just about given up on using a good amount of any fur except some yote trimmed coats. I'm sure there is a lot of coon hides in freezers, but after a while even the best packed green coon hides are going to start having issues--can you really board and finish a coon skin that's been in the freezer for 5 years and make it look as nice as a freshly caught and boarded coon? I think the fur market has devolved down into a number of small niche markets that can only take certain amounts of any fur, so that maybe means a "flooded" market for any year. I'd love to be wrong but...
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: NonPCfed]
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10/18/20 10:34 AM
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It’s both, it’s a flooded market with no interest. And all the guys saying they will trap no matter the price are creating another issue, there’s a monopoly forming in the fur business and continue selling cheap fur will all but ensure prices will never get better, we may have already past the tipping point on most type of furs
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: trapperne]
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10/18/20 10:40 AM
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It’s both, it’s a flooded market with no interest. And all the guys saying they will trap no matter the price are creating another issue, there’s a monopoly forming in the fur business and continue selling cheap fur will all but ensure prices will never get better, we may have already past the tipping point on most type of furs I wish I could click a “like” button for Shane’s post
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Re: Raccoon prices?
[Re: trapperne]
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10/18/20 10:44 AM
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It’s both, it’s a flooded market with no interest. And all the guys saying they will trap no matter the price are creating another issue, there’s a monopoly forming in the fur business and continue selling cheap fur will all but ensure prices will never get better, we may have already past the tipping point on most type of furs So would it get better if everyone quit for a year or two, or would the market just go away?
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