That sale tends to attract a lot of “craft” buyers. Looking for items other than raw fur. Probably 8-12 raw fur buyers there. Most likely less than 6 who will be major players. imo

I know the sale is sealed bid. How do they handle the “bid reading”.? Post it? Read out load? Give each seller a slip with their bids on it? Multiple ways to do “bid reading”. Each sale is a bit different.

Any updates?? According to Rusty’s schedule, things should start happening in about an hour. Can’t wait to hear what the top cat is.

I’m thinking $2,000.00 or more.

They hand you your paperwork pretty much the same as OTC. You tell their office people what to do with lots that didn't make your minimum.

This picture is posted on the ITA facebook page. I hope it's legal to repost it here. If not, please delete. Says they had a record 1666 cats at the sale.

I assume all the heavyweight cat buyers are present, or represented?

Sure hope so I've got some skin in this game

Kortum is there. I’m sure Rocky Mountain is. Heard there was a cat buyer from Albuquerque. Probably others.

How bout Chris Lund, Wyoming Fur buyer haven't seen him post for quite some time.

That’s a lot of white and block spots!

wws

Update from the sale. They just finished clearing the no sales. Should start shagging soon. Gonna be a looooooong night!!

Hope prices are worth it.

$2228.37 was high cat price from what a buddy just texted to me. Be interesting to see what the averages were

That otta pay for a tank of gas and couple twinkys.

You do realize that top cat is all about ego and bragging rights. Just happened to be one single cat that stood out from all the rest.

Will be interesting to see the average, especially if they average all the cats together. Those Texas and Tennessee cats will drag the average down IF they sold.

The thing is, the past couple years, they've separated the cats out in groups; South Western, Central, Western and even Eastern and Western Oregon cats. Then they list the average for each group. It gives a better gauge of a true average. Most certainly the Western Cats will be the highest. Also the Nephi sale had 40 or 50 cats that came in over a $1000

That is good to know that they separate the cats by section. Do they use the CITES tags to sort, or some other method?

Is the cat marked going to decline?

Eventually

I wonder if it was one of Hunters cats

If Pappas was there or represented it will have helped.