Rat wagon

Going to sell some fur tonight. Will let you know how It goes.

Good luck

Keep us posted including size. Thanks

Good luck, can't wait to hear about it.

I hope Groney films it

Good luck!

Hoping you get high grade and high price.

Hope the Beav films it!

Can you drop the photo shoot and hurry it up. We're anxious to know the price !

I thought you was getting a new trapping vechile.

I sold sixty two green spring beaver to Barnes this afternoon, fifteen bucks for two xl, ten for xl, five for large, three med lg, two for med, one buck for smalls. Seventy five bucks a lb, for castor, seventy five cents a tail. Averaged a touch over sixteen bucks.

Rat average are still about $3.50. Only saw about 30 being sold.
Very few green skinned coon still about $3.00 each.
Lots of deer hides a pair of gloves per hide. If you have some fur to go with them. I saw 5 coyotes that went for $40.00 each. But the average was around $30.00.
Didn't see any beaver or any mink.

The main fur being sold tonight were coyotes. Some green some put up and a lot of carcass coyotes. From what I heard was that those carcass coyotes were going for around $15.00 to $20.00. One guy had 30 carcass coyotes all dog hunted. Didn't hang around long enough to see what he got.

I had some $6.00 rats but the average was still around $3.50 had a few $1.00 rats my coyotes went for $30.00 except the 1 no value but I did talk him Into giving me $2.00 for It.

If there's no rat wagon video, It never happened !!!

GROENY ROCKS !!!!

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Were you happy?

Yes I was very happy.
The thing I hate the most is No One and I mean No one puts up their fur.

Oh sure there are- they had to go to bed early b/c they will spend tomorrow in a Church praying that what ever they did put up will 1) sell at an auction w/i the next year or three ad 2) that the daggum check will clear the bank

Well Good Then!!!

The way It looks to me that If your In good rat country IN WI 10 rats will get you more coin then one average coyote.
Less work, well unless your chopping through 10" of Ice. LOL

Those numbers are comparable to what I saw in northern indiana last week. The buyer said he wanted coyote and would pay $40....for our area

skrat, how can you avg $16 on beaver when your top is 15 ?

sorry didnt read the part about castor.

Not bad

Were those green skinned? And were they from last spring?

I was at the Groney stop yesterday and he told me $75 for castor which I thought wasn't bad. ( I didn't sell any)

The next guy that sold he told him that he over-dried his castor and paid him $60.

Green beaver were $6-7 for better $2 for small

Friend had a 100 rats and averaged $4.25

Over dried under dried Got a feeling there are better options for selling castor. A lot of nickel diming at the wagon

Always has been, and most disappointing to me is seller after seller just hangs their head and accepts it.

Nowadays it's only going to get worse.

Well It's a fact no matter where you sell If you over dry castor your going to get a lower price. They buy by the pound. He was just being straight with you.

Hanging your head?
The only other option Is going to auction and If you don't PUT UP YOUR FUR It's all on you. There Is NO arguing with the any local buyer. You are caught by the short hairs.

I always bartered with the local fur dealers.

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Barnes paid me 25 cents each for three star nosed moles.

Jim

Was that put-up moles, or just green skinned???

whole and frozen moles
Jim

It seems that the price difference isn't worth putting it up anymore.

Respectable return on the rats especially for this year.

. Of course it weighed less. But it sounded like he payed him less per pound as his base. 60 dollars a pound because it was too dry?

The beaver I sold were from last spring, and yes, green skinned, I needed to free up freezer space. and when I said a sixteen ave, that was combining skins, twenty eight tails, and six and three quarter lbs castor. In the process of catching those beaver I also caught a dozen otters that got turned into the DNR.

If you do any 2021 spring beaver trapping talk to groney about dorsal skinning and selling them green that way. You might do better.

Def worth considering, I hope to trap rats till march whenever season ends, if I dont get too burntout, I will trap under ice beaver till the water opens, then work the spring beaver hard. Those march under ice beavers will be skinned open {normal} and hopefully stretched. Time becomes an issue, I do concrete construction. If I work like a dog all spring summer, fall, I can afford to trap in the winter

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True

not true

Groney is paying $6 for blanket beaver that I send to FHA for $20

Maybe because many don't know how to put it up correctly and buyers would rather put it up themselves so it's done right.

That is not a true statement. People who sell to GFW don't put up fur maybe, I was at a stop where Trevor Barnes was buying fur and the only thing sold green was deer hide.

interesting...do groney guys just give up and let him have it, where more northern types put them up anyway?

I never have...and in those certain years when they don't want coon, or beaver, etc, they always bought my fur. I know barter guys who had to freeze their fur a year or two because the dealers didn't want to deal with them. In the end I always received a better price as nobody wants to deal with the guys who are always bartering for a few extra pennies. I don't think anyone hates that more than fur buyers. Or at least the fur buyers I've dealt with (admittedly).

Thanks for the update, Beav.

I'm betting Mr Barnes buys a lot of green fur just like all the other buyers.

This area Is big In dog hunting both for coon a coyote. I'm betting the dog hunters out number trappers In this area. And for what It's worth most dog hunters don't put up fur.
When I was In coon meat market I got 1000s of carcass coon from dog hunters. I'd skin them for $2.00 and I got the carcass. But that was back when coon were worth skinning.