Seems like you have it all figured out...

theres nothing wrong with grooney making money its trappers that dont care and if they dont care why not put it to good use and help people that could use the fur in cold weather just might be a good promotion for fur

I know a guy setting on a few

If you already got paid for trapping, I wonder if the all handling of those animals just to give them to groeny is worth the effort? Maybe it is?

That little I sold this time was $572. Took me about four 3 hour evenings to scrape and board. Its worth the effort. I dont like throwing away $500 plus.

I care, but wont throw or give away decent pelts that are easy to put up.

Joe,
Did you donate your pelts to have coats made for the needy. If you didnt, then please don't tell me what I should do.

Correction: the 8 otters I sold were all XLs...not Ls.

You done pretty good Swamp. Appreciate you sharing.

Just watched the GFWC Facebook video from the Perry, Ga stop this morning. Gary bought a lot of beaver and bobcats. Encouraging words about likley uptick in prices next winter.

Thank you Gary and GFWC for providing us southerners with a market that DOESN'T require 1) a cardboard box, 2) a shipping label, 3) a commission, 4) a wait for the check, 5) carpal tunnel syndrome for fleshing and boarding beaver, 6) a fur sewing machine, or 7) another $$ investment in tanning fees.

Just a fair price for the product we have down south.

$35 was top otter here too, but had to be a 2XL or bigger.

AMEN to that, well said.

swamp w i dont tell any one what to do with their fur i havnt trapped for a few years now if we had a program to donate fur for something like i said with coon hides i would do that before i would sell them for 3 to 5 dollar averages like trappers have gotten whether in the south or north either one

Coon market has been pretty bad, but I sure haven't seen 3 to 5 dollar average bad.

Iowa......Georgia.......hmmmm

Its only a few miles - shouldn't make that much of a difference.

your lucky trapdog a lot of guys i talk to that count every thing they take out of traps dont even get that it amasses me why more people arent trapping so much to make on fur very little cost doing it and very little time spent catching it

Old saying in the south, to each there own.

Fur quality in the south is strange, even on same property you can get a selection of different grades. 90 miles SOUTH of me the coon grade more semi heavy, about a half. Up here coon run bigger but are ALL coat coon even though the elevation is higher. Bobcats south of me are more spotted, up here they run reddish and few spots.

More otter south of me but better quality pelts up here, fast running creeks that stay cold all summer vs the stagnant beaver swamps to the south of me.

Coyotes up here are more pale and fluffy, few miles south they are darker and wirey.

Basically pelt's here depend on which county you caught them in!

Obviously selling carcass coon if that low.

I find it very encouraging he's buying southern coon. And with better otter and rat prices we are seeing the start of an uptick fueled by a drastic shortage of ranch mink.