Your last line hold true and return shipping is costly

lots of discussion on not sending the c and D colour coyotes this fall as there was no market for them

are some of you guys still reading smoke signals for fur reports....

Tightening and pushing grades equals changing the grade. I have also seen the grades change names. 25 years ago a good marten graded I-II Lot of mine would grade II

When prices came back up in 2006 a good marten would now be called a Select or I. Grade II virtually disappeared. Even got up to Super Select. For the same marten.

In the end the grade is just a name and every trapper gets them and price is the only thing that matters. If I have marten in the first few lots they can call them whatever makes them sell for a profit for me.

P.S. Those were NAFA grades.

When I switched to FHA sizing was much different to my benefit.

The select grade at OTA/FHA was I pt II.
They changed I pt II to select later on-same grade different terminology.

Fur from this area is average quality at best, no comparison to western or northern Canadian fur. The fur market is a train wreck based on valuations and clearances. Don’t think it would be difficult to get multiple no value pelts at FHA in this market for pelts that would normally sell in good market conditions.