MO Fur Sale
#7510941
02/27/22 09:37 AM
02/27/22 09:37 AM
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Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 7,081 MO
cfowler
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OP
trapper
Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 7,081
MO
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The MO Trappers Association had a very well run fur auction yesterday, the 26th. Want to thank all the volunteers for their hard work. Thank You!
I don’t have any results from the sale, but hopefully someone will get them posted.
14-15 buyers. 43 or so lots of fur.
I trap for fun. I skin 'em for the money! Grinners For Life-Lifetime Member, MO Chapter, Den #1 ~You Grin, You're In~
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: cfowler]
#7511078
02/27/22 11:03 AM
02/27/22 11:03 AM
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 1,686 Sumner, Mo.
claycreech
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trapper
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I need to learn how to post pictures. Just have no interest in learning that kind of stuff! Anyway, I have the results. If anyone wants certain species results let me know. I’ll list some common species: 115 finished beaver averaged $8.93 49 green beaver averaged $7.35 34 bobcat averaged $46.01 313 coyotes averaged $10.75 1044 rats averaged $4.61 1229 finished coon averaged $4.38 224 green coon averaged $2.27 29 dry otter averaged $30.24 56 green otter averaged $25.69
Last edited by claycreech; 02/27/22 11:04 AM.
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: Kansas Cat]
#7512083
02/27/22 10:57 PM
02/27/22 10:57 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 30 Mo.
furlover
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This is Wanda Keller Garver. Bud Keller was my dad. I remember attending 2 auctions with him at Sedalia fairgrounds in late 60's or early 70's. I would have been 15-16 years old the. I remember Dorman Clouse (sp?). Some other old time dealers I remember there was Duane Clark, Crane, Don Veirs, Terry Wynn, Joe Duryee, Sadler husband and wife, Danny Barrows from Kansas I think, there was a guy named Loren I think, Jim Triplett, Joplin area. Two of the most memorable was Jack Veirs and Ludy Sheda from Iowa. Clay Creech, Robbie Page or Rick Frederick might remember more.
If I remember right around that time Missouri had around 300 registered fur buyer's. I'm pretty sure I have an article from Sedalia about that auction at fairgrounds with dad and some other fur buyer's in it.
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: claycreech]
#7512095
02/27/22 11:01 PM
02/27/22 11:01 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 13,059 Ky
jbyrd63
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Ky
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I need to learn how to post pictures. Just have no interest in learning that kind of stuff! Anyway, I have the results. If anyone wants certain species results let me know. I’ll list some common species: 115 finished beaver averaged $8.93 49 green beaver averaged $7.35 34 bobcat averaged $46.01 313 coyotes averaged $10.75 1044 rats averaged $4.61 1229 finished coon averaged $4.38 224 green coon averaged $2.27 29 dry otter averaged $30.24 56 green otter averaged $25.69 Why would anyone finish a beaver for 1.58 cents? Green vs finished price list.
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: cfowler]
#7512109
02/27/22 11:08 PM
02/27/22 11:08 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,264 Lakeland,Minnesota
Bogmaster
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Lakeland,Minnesota
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Reason#1--it is an auction,you don't know if put up beaver are going to be a lot more than green or close to the same price. Reason #2--you don't have the freezer space--so you have to pit up the beaver. Reason #3-you enjoy putting up beaver Reason#4-you don't consider the job complete,if you don't put up the fur. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: cfowler]
#7512119
02/27/22 11:17 PM
02/27/22 11:17 PM
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Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 4,324 AK
FairbanksLS
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trapper
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AK
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Bog master gave you 4 good reasons. Many learned that the job wasn’t done if the fur wasn’t dried and stretched. Why would someone chase big bucks when you can’t eat horns?
formerly posting as white dog
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: cfowler]
#7512178
02/28/22 01:28 AM
02/28/22 01:28 AM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,325 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
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se South Dakota
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Why would someone chase big bucks when you can’t eat horns? You might not be able to eat "horns" but they can be sold, some for pretty decent money. Just make sure you have the "paperwork" to back some of it up, especially for big racks w/ skull caps that can bring several hundred or more on ebay or other on-line places.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: Calvin]
#7512243
02/28/22 07:38 AM
02/28/22 07:38 AM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,493 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
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Better price on rats that I would have thought. Nice....considering. X2.$4+ for Missouri 'rats don't sound bad to me considering the state of the market
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: furlover]
#7512373
02/28/22 10:19 AM
02/28/22 10:19 AM
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 1,686 Sumner, Mo.
claycreech
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trapper
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Sumner, Mo.
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This is Wanda Keller Garver. Bud Keller was my dad. I remember attending 2 auctions with him at Sedalia fairgrounds in late 60's or early 70's. I would have been 15-16 years old the. I remember Dorman Clouse (sp?). Some other old time dealers I remember there was Duane Clark, Crane, Don Veirs, Terry Wynn, Joe Duryee, Sadler husband and wife, Danny Barrows from Kansas I think, there was a guy named Loren I think, Jim Triplett, Joplin area. Two of the most memorable was Jack Veirs and Ludy Sheda from Iowa. Clay Creech, Robbie Page or Rick Frederick might remember more.
If I remember right around that time Missouri had around 300 registered fur buyer's. I'm pretty sure I have an article from Sedalia about that auction at fairgrounds with dad and some other fur buyer's in it. Wanda Keller!!! I lost your cell number. Send it to me private message on here. You named a bunch of the old time buyers who attended Mo fur auctions. Harvey Dale Payne was quite a character. Dean Hoffman still attends. Roger Yoakum never missed for years. Bill Pruitt, Bud and Willard Magee, Bob Flannery, Donnie Foley, and Rick Bunyard. I remember Missouri sales going until 3 o’clock in the morning. Crazy how much fur went through those sales back in the day. Lots of characters. Lots of laughs, and lots of hard work. Many times I remember buyers completely filling their trucks and trailers well before the auction was over. I fear we’ll never see such things again. Bud Keller was the best country fur buyer in the state in my eyes, and I’m only one of many trappers who feel that way. Bud paid well for well handled fur. He was my friend. I miss him. Selling at Bud’s in Collins was always a day we looked forward to. Bud would have us come mid to late morning and then we’d go to lunch. Good times. Great memories.
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Re: MO Fur Sale
[Re: claycreech]
#7513144
02/28/22 09:59 PM
02/28/22 09:59 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 30 Mo.
furlover
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Dad always thought a lot of you. He really appreciated all the hard work the members of Mo Trapper's Assn in putting on the auctions. I'm a little biased but dad paid top prices for well handled fur. I remember many times he would get pick up and camper full and then started asking different members if he kept buying would they haul a load. Got home many times between 3-4 in the morning and dad would say go sleep a couple of hours but be back at 6. Then if he couldn't get all green stuff in freezer I started hauling to other guys with freezer space for storage. Robbie, Rick, and Bart would remember those days. Don't forget Bill Geiger, Jack Carnahan. I can't remember the buyers name that bought skunks, he was in a wheelchair. Dad knew I hated skunks, so he bought some green ones. I went to skunk buyer and asked if he wanted to buy them. He asked what I wanted told him a quarter more than dad paid for them. I always tried to load some when he bought them. We got home late and unloaded pickup and dad asked where's the skunks. I said I sold them and made a quarter a piece on them. He tried buying a couple more times but sold them. He finally quit buying green skunks at auction.
Last edited by furlover; 02/28/22 10:08 PM.
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