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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636179
07/27/22 11:16 AM
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Be thankful he is telling you he will still buy some mediocre fur at all.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: Boco] #7636189
07/27/22 11:32 AM
07/27/22 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Boco
Be thankful he is telling you he will still buy some mediocre fur at all.


Why? I bet a lot of businesses would offer me a job for 50 cents an hour. I'd still be starving and broke. I should be thankful? crazy

There are symbiotic and parasitic relationships. I prefer not to be a host.

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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636233
07/27/22 12:49 PM
07/27/22 12:49 PM
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I know the fur market kinda sucks for sure-but at least a few items did sell through-re beavers-straight through. Yes they are work but pretty well everyone/state/province has them. Alot of us on here are getting older-we may not be able to wait out the fur market for it to get better. My take is I am going to trap for as long as I possibly can-probably not long lining etc.. but at least get out there and enjoy catching some fur while my body allows me to do it .I have a pile of muskrats on the sale that have not sold for 2 fur sales-am I going to trap rats again this fall-absolutely I am( cause it is a passion I have),and beavers,and some late season coon( only keeping the bigger skins) and I am going to give skunk trapping/skinning a try as well. Better yet I am excited about trying something new-have thrown away hundreds of skunks in my day but now they seem to be attracting buyers so I am going to give it a whirl.

If you are trying to get rich at this-you won't- but you certainly won't catch any fur if we don't trap. I am just going to get out there this fall and enjoy our wonderful outdoors everyway I can-have lost too many friends lately that have stated they will do this and that AFTER they retire. It 's not always about the money, but if we get a return of some sort of monetary value-to me that's just a bonus. Putting up your catch on those cold winter nights in the garage or shop is very enjoyable as well-which many of you fellow trappers already know.

Better than parking my plump arse in front of the TV each and every night as far as I am concerned

JMHO

Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636328
07/27/22 02:46 PM
07/27/22 02:46 PM
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Well said MB!


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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636385
07/27/22 04:09 PM
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Beaver are one of the few animals I can still make money chasing. Market for fur, meat, skulls, tails, castor, oil sacs and feet.

Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636412
07/27/22 04:51 PM
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Yea I heard that speech last year and right before his route to PA he says he isnt buying coon or mink.......I pretty much expected to give them to him anyhow before he declined taking them at all LOL.

Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636414
07/27/22 04:51 PM
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I just bid a beaver job and got the Ok to start tommrow. $200.00 set up fee and $100.00 a beaver.
Nothing worse then trapping beaver In July with 90 deg temps and high humidity. Maybe a should have bid It a bit higher.
My grands sons are here from Alaska they are going to tote traps and cut brush. I hope. LOl


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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636417
07/27/22 04:59 PM
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Will sell only some species of raw fur this year. Others i'm going to tan

Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636427
07/27/22 05:11 PM
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Beaver will have much more value in the near future when people are scavenging.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636607
07/27/22 10:15 PM
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I might see if I can catch 500 again. Been catching just over 100 for the last several years.


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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: MB Coonguy] #7636644
07/27/22 11:33 PM
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That's my plan to run rats this year and maybe catch the few beavers that we have around me, but other than that I may only catch a couple of yotes and tan them since I haven't caught one yet. I'd rather be running a trapline than staying inside and doing homework, that's for sure. Hopefully, I can experience the feeling of putting up some of my own furs this year.

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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: TheYouthTrapper] #7636692
07/28/22 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by TheYouthTrapper
That's my plan to run rats this year and maybe catch the few beavers that we have around me, but other than that I may only catch a couple of yotes and tan them since I haven't caught one yet. I'd rather be running a trapline than staying inside and doing homework, that's for sure. Hopefully, I can experience the feeling of putting up some of my own furs this year.

Just make sure you get the homework done too. An outdoor education and an academic one go hand in hand wink

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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: lumberjack391] #7636713
07/28/22 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by lumberjack391
Yea I heard that speech last year and right before his route to PA he says he isnt buying coon or mink.......I pretty much expected to give them to him anyhow before he declined taking them at all LOL.


This has happened twice on the Groeny
New York State Route leaving us with
a freezer of raw beaver to hang onto.

Hope it doesn't happen again.

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Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: Slipknot] #7636893
07/28/22 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Slipknot
When he said otter may go up Wonder how much? What did they go for this past season? I can remember getting 70 dollars apiece a few years back.


I sold one female otter(25 pounder)to Groeny for $22.00 green.

Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #7636910
07/28/22 10:50 AM
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I just received a check yesterday from FH for two female DK/XDK marten, $31 each. I had forgotten all about these skins.
Didn't think that was too bad.


"My life is better than your vacation"
Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: Turtledale] #7637084
07/28/22 04:06 PM
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I'll get it done but it will be really tough this year since I'd rather be out on the trapline.

Re: MARKET UPDATE! [Re: waggler] #7637177
07/28/22 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by waggler
I just received a check yesterday from FH for two female DK/XDK marten, $31 each. I had forgotten all about these skins.
Didn't think that was too bad.


That is about what they brought in 1999, when the market sucked. Price of gas was about $1 a gallon $1.70 delivered. A new sno-go was $3600.


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