Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: skunky 101]
#920409
10/07/08 08:57 PM
10/07/08 08:57 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,060 Mount Pleasant, MI
Tony Dutmers
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,060
Mount Pleasant, MI
|
It means the roots of the hair are closer to the surface of the leather because it's unprime or early in the year caught.
I'M THE MAD TRAPPER THAT NIGHTMARES ON RAT RIVER ARE MADE OF
Set simple & set often...you'll catch fur. Common sense on the traplines goes a long way.
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: skunky 101]
#920440
10/07/08 09:07 PM
10/07/08 09:07 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 681 va
GLEN
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 681
va
|
As a general rule blue hides are unprime, but you will see some that the fur is good just blue. But as a general rule snaremaster is right
Work is for people that don't know how to trap US Navy 83'-89'
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: skunky 101]
#920451
10/07/08 09:09 PM
10/07/08 09:09 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,683 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,683
Newark, Ohio 83 years
|
The color is also a bluish gray verses a white when fully prime.
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: ]
#922031
10/08/08 05:56 PM
10/08/08 05:56 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,808 Logan County KY
mark
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,808
Logan County KY
|
A little trick an old friend showed me. Rub salt on the skin up the legs and around the inside of the bottom of pelt and it turns white. when dry wipe off all the salt. It doesn't stand out so much when selling to a fur buyer. Especially when mixed in with other fur. Dean Wilson would have never been fooled by that trick, nor would anyone who has been around fur (and/or buying) very long. I'll toss that into the junk pile so fast your eyes would turn blue. NEVER put salt on a "hide" you intend to sell to the fur market unless you just want downgrades. If it is "blue" sell it the way it is. Chances are, it will be worth more than a salted hide any day.
Last edited by mark; 10/08/08 05:57 PM.
A "half truth" is still a whole lie.
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: ]
#922035
10/08/08 05:58 PM
10/08/08 05:58 PM
|
Lil' Bit
Unregistered
|
Lil' Bit
Unregistered
|
I'd worry about that akwolfer44 for a few reasons:
1: Reminds me of the old trappers who used to take their beaver pelts and load them up with mud, then when they dried, would brush out some of it, but since they got paid by the pound on beaver pelts, it added considerably to their pocketbooks.
2: As a result of unscrupulous furhandling practices, prices went down per pound.
3: This would lead me to believe that if you scammed your fur buyers, they would be less apt to be as generous when buying from you in the future. They may scrutinize your furs more closely, be more picky about small holes and what not, and as a result you make less in the long run.
I feel it's better to be honest from the get go with your fur. If you have early coon, just get used to the fact that it's an early coon. If you don't want early coon, hold off until they prime up.
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: ]
#922128
10/08/08 06:47 PM
10/08/08 06:47 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,060 Mount Pleasant, MI
Tony Dutmers
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,060
Mount Pleasant, MI
|
gotta agree with you there Lil' Bit. Be honest to the fur buyer up front and he'll treat you farely now and for years to come.
I'M THE MAD TRAPPER THAT NIGHTMARES ON RAT RIVER ARE MADE OF
Set simple & set often...you'll catch fur. Common sense on the traplines goes a long way.
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: trapper34]
#923213
10/09/08 11:46 AM
10/09/08 11:46 AM
|
Lil' Bit
Unregistered
|
Lil' Bit
Unregistered
|
BBLWI -- I did read in some old issues of Hunter Trader Trapper that beaver trappers in gold-rich areas would find more luster to their beaver pelts when saturated with the silty waters of the streams (possibly gold or false gold?). Of course, that really didn't matter much as they were done on weight then for the felting industry.
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: ]
#923361
10/09/08 01:23 PM
10/09/08 01:23 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 9,780 St. Cloud, MN
trapperkeck
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 9,780
St. Cloud, MN
|
PA Skinner, borax is much better for your purposes..
"The voice of reason!"
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: ]
#925219
10/10/08 02:28 PM
10/10/08 02:28 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,808 Logan County KY
mark
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,808
Logan County KY
|
AK, I knew Dean and Ada, I don't know your friend, and I know what I know. Dean wouldn't have bought salted hides unless at a great discount. I saw it too many times at his place in Fairbanks. Taxidermy is different than the fur market and it is acceptable there for sure. The same thing goes for Cervids etc. At one time it was even acceptable in our trade but that was before freezers.
A "half truth" is still a whole lie.
|
|
|
Re: Blue hides??/
[Re: ]
#925528
10/10/08 06:27 PM
10/10/08 06:27 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,808 Logan County KY
mark
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,808
Logan County KY
|
What it has to do with it is that salt is not acceptable, I don't care how well it works. Unless of course you are selling to the taxidermy trade. I can't speak for Dean, but I know I saw him turn down a lot of fur or downgrade the heck out of it because it had salt on it. On to other things. Whick direction out of Delta are you trapping, I spent quite a bit of time down that way in the late 80's.
A "half truth" is still a whole lie.
|
|
|
|
|