Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: claycreech]
#7308945
07/18/21 11:13 PM
07/18/21 11:13 PM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,635 Pottawatamie co. IA
LLtrapper
"The Coon Combine"
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"The Coon Combine"
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,635
Pottawatamie co. IA
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The harvest is next to nothing, yet there is no interest in coon. Depressing really. They are the bread and butter of the vast majority of trappers in the U.S. I will not trap coon again this year. I get paid to trap beaver. I’ll otter trap again while killing beaver. Catch whatever rats I can. Same as last year. There’s other things to trap besides coon. I am afraid the coyote market will go the way of the coon now that Canada Goose no longer uses fur. The Chinese will still buy and knock off their coyote trim but will never pay the same as CG did. I bet you will see a 10.00 average at best for MO coyotes this year. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: LLtrapper]
#7309130
07/19/21 10:06 AM
07/19/21 10:06 AM
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 1,741 Sumner, Mo.
claycreech
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Posts: 1,741
Sumner, Mo.
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The harvest is next to nothing, yet there is no interest in coon. Depressing really. They are the bread and butter of the vast majority of trappers in the U.S. I will not trap coon again this year. I get paid to trap beaver. I’ll otter trap again while killing beaver. Catch whatever rats I can. Same as last year. There’s other things to trap besides coon. I am afraid the coyote market will go the way of the coon now that Canada Goose no longer uses fur. The Chinese will still buy and knock off their coyote trim but will never pay the same as CG did. I bet you will see a 10.00 average at best for MO coyotes this year. LLL You may be right. Unless your trapping live market coyotes, trying to make money dirt trapping doesn’t work here. Our coyote aren’t good enough as a whole. My son is ate up with coyote trapping. He culled the snot outa them last year and averaged $26 on the 40 that he skinned. He ditched that many more. I my current situation, beaver are what I can make wages on. I charge by the day, and between the hide and castor and the otter it works.
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: bblwi]
#7309530
07/19/21 10:45 PM
07/19/21 10:45 PM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,635 Pottawatamie co. IA
LLtrapper
"The Coon Combine"
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"The Coon Combine"
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,635
Pottawatamie co. IA
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If you are correct about Groenwald's buying the low priced fur from the auction houses and they corner the market even more we may never see a lot of competition in coon even when demand rises.
Bryce Uhm there is no competition now. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: bblwi]
#7309617
07/20/21 12:17 AM
07/20/21 12:17 AM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,103 WI - Wisconsin
AJE
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trapper
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Posts: 10,103
WI - Wisconsin
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If you are correct about Groenwald's buying the low priced fur from the auction houses and they corner the market even more we may never see a lot of competition in coon even when demand rises.
Bryce I'm not so sure demand will rise Bryce
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: Pike River]
#7309744
07/20/21 08:48 AM
07/20/21 08:48 AM
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Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 4,497 PA
PAskinner
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trapper
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Posts: 4,497
PA
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You can not run a land line here and not be a coon trapper. Or a water line with footholds for the most part. Might as well kill some.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: Pike River]
#7309858
07/20/21 11:25 AM
07/20/21 11:25 AM
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Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 258 Mi.In.
niteprowler
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Posts: 258
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Coon Trappers - How are you guys feeling ?
I'm feeling like someone kicked me right in the crotch ! Or someone pulled the 2 boys out from my shorts and started smacking them with a hammer !! That pretty much sums up my thoughts on coon prices.
Last edited by niteprowler; 07/20/21 11:32 AM.
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: AJE]
#7313368
07/25/21 11:39 AM
07/25/21 11:39 AM
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Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 5,570 Dunbar, Wisconsin
Pike River
OP
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Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 5,570
Dunbar, Wisconsin
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Caught 1 coon in the last 9 years. Yes, it is amazing how many of us are trying to keep coons out of sets, and yet the price is still pathetic. My theory is that if coon prices rise, it will be easy for folks to increase their coon catches thereby driving the price right back down. Probably true. Lots of pent up supply.
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Re: Coon Trappers
[Re: Joe1]
#7313381
07/25/21 11:58 AM
07/25/21 11:58 AM
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Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 7,370 W NY
Turtledale
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Posts: 7,370
W NY
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so what are you going to with the ones you dont tan and make in to a comforter in my area if you trap them on purpose you could make a lot of huge comforters Yep you live in the coon belt Lots of places don't have near the numbers you do so trapping them to you might mean hundreds or thousands while in other areas it might mean 50 or 60
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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