My season end picture!

Very happy, this is my last 2 seasons minus around 200 green from this year, and 4-500 I sold last year, but 1219 in the picture! I love to trap and will until I cant!

Impressive!

Great Job and Great Attitude!!!!!!!

With moils bulk rates, maybe they would pay you to tan your fur.

... did a coon do somethin inappropriate to you as a kid or what ? Lol

.. you sure are taking it out on the entire species if one did .... good haul lol

Awesome

That’s a lot of coons! Good season

I averaged 11.18 on my coon this year. Of that total,$5.35 was fur average. Alot more then just fur here guys.

Way to go!

Lots of work!!

Those Iowa coon will make more...

Awesome job IT! I enjoy watching your videos.

Turkey and upland game hunters everywhere should thank you.

Ain't that the truth! Thank you for your service!

What a haul.

Nice collection,some rats and mink too?

Awesome job.

Males me shutter at the thought of scraping that many.

Wow

Lots of hard work in that picture. Congratulations

Very nice. Definitely a lot of work there.congrats

Outstanding

Congratulations

Wow!

WTG doing what you enjoy

Very impressive catch!

Your work ethic is even more impressive!

Pretty impressive.

great job there

Awesome job. You could heat your house with that much grease.

Iowa Trapper. IMPRESSIVE. how many traps do you run at one time? are you using all DP's? coilsprings?

That's awesome. How are you gonna haul all that around? That's a big load.

And that ladies and gents is what hard work and determination looks like in a raccoon state!
Well played.


Blessings,
Mark

Absolutely

Wonderful Job

Wonderful job
But I did notice that; YOU ARE STILL SKUNKLESS

Very impressive

Super impressive! Just shows what can be done with a lot of hard work. Your videos are fantastic.

I've enjoyed following along on your youtube channel. Keep it up! Thanks for sharing.

Where are the mink? You can not get rats and coon and get get an accidental mink or two in the bargain????

Way to go!!

Good Job! Next year you should have three years of coon to take a picture of.

I guess in your infinite wisdom you missed the comment where all of those are sold, LOL

Fantastic, hard work and good times represented right there now. Couldn't imagine what the pile of fat would look like from all those. You could heat a house for a lifetime!

Wow, that right there is a darned great haul of fur. It represents a pile of 'coon grease, and an even larger pile of elbow grease. Hat's off to you!

Wow!

"I averaged 11.18 on my coon this year. Of that total,$5.35 was fur average. Alot more then just fur here guys."

I hope for his sake this means that. The year before he only sold some.

Great job!! Very impressive!!!

I'm sorry... I only counted 1218 coon.

That's an impressive haul.

Thanks everyone, I love handling fur, ya the market isn't bad, but it's not non existent either. Surprisingly, I never did catch a mink this year. 99% of my coon come from 220s and dps on dry ground. I know alot of the big trappers say if you want to catch coon you need to find water. I don't disagree with that, but I feel I have a fairly good system that produces dry, and slightly larger size average by trapping dry ground. Dry ground locations definitely "dry up"quicker forcing me to move locations generally after 2-3 coon. Whereas water tends to keep producing fur, sometimes all season long. I do want to learn to be a better water trapper, it's hard around here as almost all my creeks are full of rip raft or erosion rock. But that's an obstacle that hopefully I can learn to improve on, how to set on locations such as this.

Lessons learned/improvements for next year:

I tried waiting until snow to trap coyotes instead of trapping them early along my coon line. Terrible idea, that was gas wasted as they were so far and in-between when I drove right past it, and filled in-between with 10 coon sets earlier in the year.

Do more scouting, every year when I think I've scouted enough, I prove myself wrong and find myself in a pinch looking for ground.

Finish more fur ealier, when I run my work trap line, those low number days go ahead and finish them every night. Don't just add to the pile thst needs finished after season.

DONT BE LAZY!! I've really improved on this, but it still is there. Especially day 3 or 4, fatigue and exhaustion sets in, but it's easy to be tired look down the ditch at an empty dog proof and say "I'll reset it tomorrow" thsts fur missed. Still plenty to improve on this subject.

Thanks guys it was a fun season and I'm always learning and trying to improve!

how many other trappers you run into dont know any in my area there was a couple last year both of those hung it up this year used to be several quoting prices they got on threads like this only see one on this one

Nice catch of fur.Congrats

Impressive!

I don't run into many, maybe a few young kids which is good to see. All the big timers hung it up last couple years also

Incredible! Very well done!

What an incredible run.

Those kind of #'s take serious dedication.

Excellent job

Wow is all I can say !

Awesome! Thank you for sharing the picture.

Great job lot of work !! Shame not much money as in the past

Nice catch! Undoubtedly a lot of fun and work all rolled into one!

So you had a buyer for all those finished skins??? That alone is impressive. Way to go

Wow. That is a lot of hard work ! That is a Hudson Bay Fur Company picture if there ever was one.
QUESTION… What do you think your biggest coon weighed in this picture ? Great job. MD

What was your size breakdown Justin?

Marty I'm not real sure, the only coon I weighed was a double had, a 29 & 30 lbr

Claycreech I'm right at 72% 3x and up, and 90% 2x and up. Only small coon I brought home was coon I couldn't release.

That's a serious amount of dedication and work! Well done! wow wow wow!

Great job !

Great job.

Wow congratulations

Sold my 6 coon and got $8.00 so they say but no check in the mail yet FHA sold them and they were 3X and 4

x and 5X the others were 32 inches . All dried and prime.