Was not going to start snaring some fox until December first to get them when they are fully primed out (for around here). But got the itch so I set 2 snares yesterday at the gravel bank around the corner from my house. Result was these 2 red males this morning. They look good from the fur side (not scratched out from ticks) but the leather side is still blue. Skinned them with the feet on so they should tan up nice for a wall hanger.

Nice job. Keep that catch ratio up and you’ll have a pile of reds

Love snaring. WTG!

Pretty fox. Nice job

Good looking fox

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Outstanding!

You are just showing off now. Thats how to do it. Looks like you have a good swivel system on your cables.

Nice work

Nice fox eric, little salty on butts but nice. Love cable restraint (snaring, WI) !

Way to go!

We usually started pelting mink around November 20. Pelting between 25,000 to 40,000 a season we started with adult males and females that were not being kept the following year for breeders. As with many animals (coons are an example most trappers are familiar with) adult males and females (that have not raised a litter the previous spring) will prime up before young of the year. Having to skin so many, with usually only 3 of us skinning, we did some just as they were becoming prime, then most at peak of primeness, then a few past prime. Averaged about 1500 a day. For me pelting season was my favorite time especially as starting at age 8, I got to skip school 2 or 3 days a week to stay home and skin mink. It was an "all hands on deck" time. We always skinned the mink in Nov/December and froze the pelts then fleshed pelts in January. I did not get to skip school in January for fleshing, much to my chagrin.

You can't do any better than hitting a fox for every set.