My Very Lean Trapping Season...

As you know, I started off with no place to trap any rats this year, so I settled for coon. Although, I have moved on from that area I have managed to catch 9 coon of various sizes and color. Since I will be tanning every thing I catch this year, size is not a concern. I have also caught 2 mink and 4 muskrats. I am tanning everything. Although, I have been tanning some of my catches the last couple of years, I am still not completely satisfied in the results 100%. So I have now started using a different system, but still trying to perfect it. Below are what I have tanned so far this year.

The 4 rats from this years catch are my favorite color of rat. I call them red rats. Their underside are very fine and silky.





Out of the 9 coon, I have completed the tanning of 4 of them and still have 5 in process. The brown coon at the bottom left is one of the best furred ones. If you will notice though, just down from his tail, left of the middle, there is a light spot. This is a bad spot on the the best fur. It is where there has been a Bot fly larva, I suspect from all indication.and a hole.




I did the first of the 2 mink with my old process of tanning. The second one is with the new process.




I still have some rats from last year in the freezer so I have started tanning them. I tried this 3 to test out the process.



Well, I hope to catch a few more coon as soon as the weather calms down a bit. Whatever I catch, it will be tanned. It really isn't very exciting, but it keeps me out of the bars and away from women. I have decided to leave the women to the younger guys like Leftlane.

Garry-

Very nice.Nice job tanning.

Looks like you have been busy, nice job!

Very Interesting Actor

Keep at it numbers are just numbers. WTG

Nice job

What tanning method do you use? Im a newbie at tanning. Just tanned a skunk and 3 coyotes. I used vinegar for a pickle bath. Then the deer hunters tanning formula in the orange bottle. They turned out really nice. Im thinking of using citric acid for the next time.

Nice work Actor.
Tanned pelts sell for a much better price right now if you can establish your own market.

Well Done

Very nice!!

Excellent job

excellent work

Looks like your having fun and that's what is important!

I will say this much at this time... I am using Citric acid for part of the pickeling bath. I was using the "Orange Bottle", not that it does not work, I just wasn't getting the softness and the end results I wanted. I will let you know more when I am fully convinced that what I want, I can get routinely and know where, why and how, I know the results will be consistent. In other words... If I advise on a system, you do it and it doesn't work, I want to be able to tell you why it isn't working for you. So, I need to perfect the system for me to that point. Hopefully when I get through this week with what I have in the works now, I will have the answers I am looking for.

Please don't think I am trying to be evasive, that is not the point. If give advice, I want it to be something you can count on.

Garry-