Oregon fur sale

Just a reminder that the OTC fur sale in Prineville, Oregon is this coming up this weekend - March 2-3. Still time to get your reservations made.

Thanks for the reminder -- I think all mine will go to K.Falls later.

I plan to be there. Hope the weather gets better we have a foot of snow at my house in roseburg. Verry unusual. Hope to see alot of guys there. This will be my first sale. Anyone bring there kids along with them?

I was told this might be a one day sale. Saturday only. A final decision will be made this evening, after the reservations are all in.

Prineville Oregon sale is happening today.

Should be done checking in fur and the buyers should be hard at work grading coyotes and cats.

Looking forward to seeing results. Wish I was there but it just isn't in the cards.

Hope everyone is happy with the prices they get.

Did it end up being a one day show?

Yep.

Any news?

Not yet. At a normal sale, bids are due at 5 PM. Usually something is posted by 7 or 730, so still a bit of a wait.

100.00 top lot nutria, i'll go ahead and get the rumor mill going, lol.

everybody knows that we have the best nutria going -- beats all of our other sect III fur.

Use to send mine out there, only place I found someone would buy them, lol.

Good to put a face to the guy that killed our nutria market.

Jtrap -- was the shipping more than the purchase price?

Ttt

Average report ?

Bflobo, where are you? We needs to know! LOL

OK boys and girls...got some preliminary #s. Notjhing official but I just talked to Don over the phone.

Coyotes averaged $68.50, eastern bobcats $325, western bobcats $213* (This number is highly skewed because one guy brought 15 west side cats that included two that went for $1000 each), otter brought $79.85, beaver $13.43 and castor $60

easterns more than westerns??

Keep in mind that for us Oregonians eastern bobcat means east of the Cascades which is the good ones. Western Oregon cats are those red backed north-central type stuff.

What did the coyote market look like? Good coyotes? How did the good ones sell?

That is a great otter price. Bet there will lots of otter at Klamath.

Eastern cat average seems a bit low but then it is hard to,judge not having seen the cats.

$1,000.00 on western Oregon cats??? Would have liked to have seen them. I wonder how far they traveled after being trapped......

Thanks for the report.

gotcha,thanks

Western Oregon vs eastern Oregon cats is what he’s saying

I know the guy that brought those cats and he's a straight shooter...so I think they're legit. Don said that they were the best western Oregon cats he'd ever seen. (Those would have been high cascade cats FYI).

I agree - High Cascades. A couple of cats that don't know and don't care where ODFW draws the line!! LOL

How does one ship goods to the sale?

Check out the Oregon Trappers' Assoc. homepage

i saw easterns at 325 and about fell outta my chair till you guys clarified it.

No ‘rats at the sale?

www.otcfursales.com

They have another sale coming up the end of March in Klamath Falls. March 21-22-23. Last trappers sale of the year in the western US. It is a clean up sale - which is good. Not only raw fur but antlers, traps, tanned furs, claws, etc. basically anything to do with wildlife is allowed. Lots of buyers - including those buying for the craft/tourist trade. That most likely is where the otter are going.

Plenty of time to ship for that sale. You might wait a few days before calling Don Nichols. Give him some time to recover from Prineville. Don has been helping at the OTC sales since they started in 1973. And like all of us - he isn't getting any younger.

I haven't seen the official sale report.

There were a few rats. Not enough to talk about. Prineville is mostly about cats and coyotes.

There will be more rats at Klamath on the 21-22-23

How many otter?

How did grey fox do?

I think there were only 10 otters there. It was a tug of war between two small craft type buyers.

Don't know the official line on gray fox but one guy I know averaged $16 and change for a string of 17. Those would have been nicely handled goods.

Thanks, about what I figured.