Summer doldrums.. finished fur pics

Post em up. Help out your fellow trappers through the doldrums of summer. It always amazes me to see the finished product. I know I can count on some of you.

I used to look at some.

Those fox look slick! Nice job on them all!

Beautiful badger..

Lol, c’mon Boco. We know what you do!

Hanging up in my boys room....

I usually take them a step further than tanned.

Very nice.

This thread has made me realize I almost never take pics of finished furs. I should change that

Snow, your work is incredible.

No way am I entering into this amazing post, beautiful fur and put up guys......jk

Now there's a top lot Badger!

A few

I'm to ashamed to show my coon and skunk on here now, when I get better at skinning and fleshing.

Some of yous put in ALOT of work, thanks for humbling us newbies!

Yes, but every year it gets to be a quicker job. Lots of nice work guys.

Don’t be. Good put up just takes practice. Post your pics, and you will get helpful tips. I guarantee every one of us has screwed up a good number of pelts learning proper put up.

Example, those rats I posted earlier in this thread, look at the noses. I didn’t think to pin the nose in place on the end of that wire stretcher. Lesson learned!

My coon and skunk look like a Charlie brown Christmass treeo
If you know what I mean.

I actually noticed those noses, and am curious if there's a big dock on that sort of thing?

I don’t know for sure. I never have caught enough rats to really know if it hurt anything or not, but I imagine you probably lose a little on size? Guess it would depend on how they’re measured. The most muskrats I’ve ever caught in a season was like 12 and most years I catch zero. I caught those in a stock pond when I lived in Montana, here in Nevada I don’t target them at all, there’s not enough of them to make it worth my time.

Those are some pretty dark marten, mud. Probably not from Maryland tho, eh?

Lol nope. I’ve trapped in Vermont a few weeks over the seasons. December Vermont caught fisher are pretty critters. Or you mean the mink?

Nice work!!

Very true newfox

I meant the marten.......haha, which apparently are fisher. They looked small so assumed they were marten.

BOCO that is a beautiful lineup of fur!!!! Gorgeous looking out up.......jk

Thanks much.

Boco does beautiful work. I’ve loved that fox pic each time I’ve seen it.

Framed Blacktail deer hide being processed for brain tanning.

That looks more like it Boco, must have had a bad day with the first one.

WOW, for your area in SE Texas, those look to be very credible coyotes.

The only one I have available on my phone.

Last years coyotes and a good day.

I don't have much for finished fur pics on my computer. But here is one that required a bit of sewing.

And another. Wish I had pics of them fur out and all cleaned up to show.

What a great sewing job!

That first one was a big tom who had been fighting, he was infected and had lost the hair for a 1/4" to 1/2" around all of his wounds. So I had to trim out all of the bald spots and make sure everything laid flat and sew it up, flip it and make sure it looked right and redo any bad spots before I dried him. My dad looked at it and said, "I'd throw that over the bank." I spent eight hours working on that one cat... but I sold him for $800. I'll work for $100/hr.

Amen to that!

... the bloating makes that underfur really pop lol

Here is a picture of a coon ,a red fox a mink and a coyote i caught during the 2017 season. How things change over the years As a kid starting into trapping in the 1960's muskrats where in every small stream and trickle of water My Dad trapped in the late 1940' and he would carry an empty 50lb burlap feed bag to carry his catch in . There was plenty of rats in the 1970,s but by the 1980,s they where becoming scarce .Coyotes when unheard of in my part of south central PA until the mid 1980's Grey fox outnumbered the red fox in the early 1950,s And mink where also rare until about the 1980,sNow if you have the properties to trap coyote have expanded into every pocket of cover and mink are so plentiful that when ever I see brown fur in one of my sets I automatically think mink rather than muskrat

Days catch from last November. I'm talking about the coyotes, not the beer on the right.