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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8622233
06/07/26 03:43 PM
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Sure wish I had these mink to sell in the current market. Had 52 and 65 mink, each bunch was from accumulating in the freezer for a couple years waiting for prices to go up. Ended up selling for very low average. The bundles of rats were seasonal catchs. These were from several years ago.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8622238
06/07/26 04:09 PM
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Walt, just wanted to say impressive catch and very nice fur handling. It is obvious that you take pride in what you do.

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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8622240
06/07/26 04:13 PM
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I trapped a lot of mink back in the day and averages on at least 2 seasons were a lot better then they are now. I was averaging around the $60.00 range. Gas was under $2.00 a gallon and I was driving a chevy cavalier on the road line. And working a full-time job and taking off one day a week and checking on Saturday and Wed. Caught some coon and rats along those road lines. Never set less then 6 traps at each ROW location. I you may not believe this, but theft was just about nonexistent.
But I can also remember when fur was worth just about zero and old johnny sneakum was tossing out the fur and just taking the traps. The good old days. If I was 40, I would become a good mink trapper again.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: bearcat2] #8622242
06/07/26 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bearcat2
Yup, wolves are the one animal I don't put up as fur. They all get tanned and sold or sold green direct to a taxidermist. They are worth more as wall hangers or taxidermy than fur market, and are easy to move. Even summer hides and ones with an open back (shoulder mites) sell well to Easterners. Only those with bad mange are worthless, and even them I cut the feet off and sell them and the skull.

A few years ago I had two brothers as spring bear hunters, I got two wolves back from the tannery and went to hang them in the shop with prices on them, although caught the same day, one was a nice hide, while the other was badly rubbed (spring wolves) the one brother grabbed the good one before I even hung it up. The other brother didn't say anything, but looked at the prices I had on them (1/2 the price for the rubbed one) and went in to town that day and checked prices Moscow Hide & Fur, and called me from their parking lot and said he would take the rubbed one, figured he could live mount it with the rubs not showing to obviously where he was going to put the mount. I was always curious how it turned out, but while he said he would send me a picture, I've never got one.

That's the way to do it. The auction can't come close to what you guys make on wolves there, especially when you tack on the F4WM reimbursement. I asked Paul A why the auction didn't get any wolves from the lower 49, then he told me what he all got, and tanning only cost him $60 a wolf. I could do the same here, but I'd be sitting on the fur for a long time. They're a lot easier to find here, but a professional tan is about $200ish.
Even the junk fur late caught ones get used. Head mounts, gauntlets, fur ruffs, claws, skulls, tails, digestive tract, even the other bones are wanted by the gothic types...lol.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8622305
06/07/26 06:41 PM
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Nothin like a wolf bone thru your nasal septum.
The tatoo / body piercing artists will buy up the bones as fast as you can cleanem.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: blackhammer] #8622373
06/07/26 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by blackhammer
Originally Posted by mink99
[quote=beaverpeeler]Who knows what mink numbers did in China during that extended ranch mink glut. My understanding is that there were/are a lot of mom-pop ranch mink producers there. How long would they keep their breeders at high numbers when the cost of production was higher than pay outs?

There is talk of only 7 to 8 million mink to be offered next year. Which is even smaller than this year. The Chinese pelted way down like every other country.

For all our sakes I hope coon, rats, coyotes go up more. Good cold winters with fur being in style can make miracles happen.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8622400
06/07/26 09:26 PM
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Warm winter predicted for China with a strong El Nino building up in the Pacific.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: Boco] #8622561
06/08/26 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Boco
Nothin like a wolf bone thru your nasal septum.
The tatoo / body piercing artists will buy up the bones as fast as you can cleanem.

The only tricky thing is in Manitoba, you need a licence or permit for everything. My animal, my bones, but the person buying them technically requires a possession permit or an animal parts dealers licence……and the authorities lay this on the seller to make sure the buyer has the right stuff.
I just tell them roughly the location of a pile of bones if they want to go get some for free……..but nobody wants to get off their feet, walk out there and get em……lol


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623685
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FHA posted final results and a sale commentary.

Final results

Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623718
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Lynx Cat 8,248 94% Sold

Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623758
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Is that 94% overall OR 94% of sundry owner Section 1 goods??


It says overall for items such as ermine, squirrel, possum, badger, wolverine.

It does NOT say overall for lynxcats.

I think clarification is needed.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: Shakeyjake] #8623792
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Originally Posted by Shakeyjake
Originally Posted by Boco
Nothin like a wolf bone thru your nasal septum.
The tatoo / body piercing artists will buy up the bones as fast as you can cleanem.

The only tricky thing is in Manitoba, you need a licence or permit for everything. My animal, my bones, but the person buying them technically requires a possession permit or an animal parts dealers licence……and the authorities lay this on the seller to make sure the buyer has the right stuff.
I just tell them roughly the location of a pile of bones if they want to go get some for free……..but nobody wants to get off their feet, walk out there and get em……lol


You need permission to buy bones?

Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: Muskratwalt] #8623814
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Impressive Mink catches Walt! Wish the timing worked out better for you.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623829
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Species Offered % Sold

Lynx Cat 8,248 94%

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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623839
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Yup. That is what it say. Why didn’t you include the fine print at the bottom of the printed report.

I will bet $50.00 that when the sold catalog is published and I crunch the numbers manually, the % sold will be much lower than 94%.

How about it slickpan? Are you up to losing $50.00??????


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: wissmiss] #8623844
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Originally Posted by wissmiss
Yup. That is what it say. Why didn’t you include the fine print at the bottom of the printed report.

I will bet $50.00 that when the sold catalog is published and I crunch the numbers manually, the % sold will be much lower than 94%.

How about it slickpan? Are you up to losing $50.00??????


Actually I was surprised it was that high. You said no way it was gonna be the 82% sold initially printed after the auction because that was to high. Remember that ? I can't tell you what the catalog will say when you add it up but if they are lower then you better call Mark and ask him why FHA has is promoting bogus numbers. I am sure with all your connections over the years he will be glad to explain the facts to you. Bottom of catalog states "Averages are sundry owner" .It does not say anything about % sold not being correct.

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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623846
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Mark doesn’t have to explain anything. It is right there on their published report. In black & white small print at the bottom of the page. That is the escape clause.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: wissmiss] #8623848
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Originally Posted by wissmiss
Mark doesn’t have to explain anything. It is right there on their published report. In black & white small print at the bottom of the page. That is the escape clause.



Bottom of catalog states "Averages are sundry owner" .It does not say anything about % sold not being correct.

Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623851
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Point well taken. You are correct.

I still think 94% sold is too high. Guess we will see when the sold catalog is posted in a couple of weeks.


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Re: FHA auction shotgun start ! [Re: trapperman222] #8623859
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i hope that 94% sold that way they wont have there lynx cat DEALERS ONLY SALE next march.but just talked with one of the big dealers there with several hundred western cats there only sold about 50% sold with the better end not selling....looks like another high minimums dealer only sale coming up in march. cant have trapper lots there might bring averages down offering cheaper cats to the buyers.

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