Re: Groundhog fur?
[Re: rattrapper1234]
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04/08/21 08:48 AM
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Used to be a brush hair market for them years ago, like badger hair brushes.
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Re: Groundhog fur?
[Re: k snow]
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04/08/21 08:55 AM
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. Natives used the hide to make bowstrings. ..and door hinges
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Re: Groundhog fur?
[Re: rattrapper1234]
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04/08/21 11:45 AM
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Grilled woodchuck back legs and sweet baby Ray's BBQ sauce. Now that's some good eating. Always taught kids to skin and flesh using woodchuck as it is very forgiving to work with
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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Groundhog fur to me is similar to a squirrel tail. If you know s fly tyer, they're worth a few bucks. As a kid I used to catch them and sell the skins to company’s like Mepp’s, don’t know if they still buy them or not but used to get 3 dollars for them if they had the tail
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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04/08/21 12:42 PM
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There Is a very good market for ground hog pelts. PM me and I'll let you In on a little known market.
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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04/08/21 06:28 PM
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Here...this is me circa 1996 or 1997. From right is 5 coon, 1 case skinned badger, 1 woodchuck, couple rats, and couple possums. I used to get a couple bucks for woodchucks from our buyer at the time in fall. He always told me he had a paint brush (hair brush) market for those and for early fall badgers at that time. Once it got cold the woodchucks denned up but a warm late fall I could catch a few and they paid as much as rats at that time, and same as possums. Looks like I had a couple blue coon in there. I used coon dirthole sets with hawbakers coon lure that seemed to work on woodchucks. Jim
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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04/08/21 06:38 PM
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There Is a very good market for ground hog pelts. PM me and I'll let you In on a little known market. Beav we have groundhogs up here? I've personally never seen one.
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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04/08/21 09:02 PM
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I guess no one whats to know about the hog market.
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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Groundhogs have a nice fur in early spring when they first come out of hibernation.They go downhill really fast so the window to get a few nice pelts is small. I have used nice groundhog fur in combination hats with red fox-makes a beautiful hat. Like said the leather is very tough,and needs to be thinned in the neck/shoulder area as it is noticeably thicker there.
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Re: Groundhog fur?
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Hello do you still think there a market for ground hog I’m located in northeast Pennsylvania
Eric Rosario
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