Which Greonwold didn't buy cause he said it cost to much in labor to put up.***** anyway. I highly reccommed watching someone do it correctly or you can ruin perfectly good pelts.
Not that I ever did that of course.
Yep, listen to these guys. Learn how to put up fur and you'll feel really proud of yourself when a buyer compliments your fur. Don't sell in the round. IMO buyers look upon that as laziness and so do I. If you can't atleast skin them. Don't catch em.
zeak some of that i would say is lazyness but others no because for some folks that might live in the city but love to trap may not have a place to dispose of the carcus of the animals so selling a whole animal is better then having it dumped where it dont need to be...
In the 70's when i was going to college, i was working 2 and 3 part time jobs as well as running a trap line. I didn't have the time, space or the equipment to skin and flesh out the hides. I would wipe the game off with a clean towel and place them in a chest freezer until i had enough to sell. It was great experience of getting outdoors for a few hours, earn some gas and book money and still be able to get studying and work done. We all have our opinions on what a sportsman should do but don't look down on others for not following in your steps. As long as we have repect for nature and those around us we should be gratefull
I guess I overlooked that part. Everyone around here that I've seen that sells whole always says they don't have time to skin, and they may only bring in a dozen animals. Mostly **** hunters or younger people. I'm not saying I've done it all or am the busiest guy around but I run quite a few traps, work, and go to school full time and put up hundreds of animals.
I guess I should put it this way. If you have the resources to atleast get your fur skinned then do it.
touching on what chuch said, city trappers should actually sell in the round if they can not dispose of their...extras properly. everytime John Q. public walks up on a skinned animal just laying out somewhere it gives hunters and trappers a bad reputation.
Thats what garbage bags were made for.......or just expect a big price difference. I have a lot of blue **** I put up but what the heck. Not lazyness....just respect for the animal.
If you have freezer space to hold a number of critters in the round, you should have the space to hold the skinned critters until garbage day. Just double bag the carcasses in cheep black garbage bags and put them out frozen with your garbage.
How do you find fur buyers? I'm looking at shooting some yotes this winter. Don't really have room to store animals but I want to do my part in population control in several areas I hunt.
Hallo, I sold my furs at www.furscouter.eu and they told me that big fur retailers like them usually buy only tanned furs. So I suppose those prices you are talking about are prices for tanned furs. I hope this aswer helps you.
Fur prices you usually see quoted are raw or sometimes grease fur. In the years I worked and managed the Ravenna fur sale I can not really remember any amount of fur sold tanned.
From what I heard from a friend that sells traps and supply's both out of his shop and online, he had to send a truck in early December to pick up thousands of dollars of traps etc because of the demand. This demand was because of the open month, and every one was trapping hard, adding lines.
What are they going to do with this fur besides further flood a bad market? Unless self tan or pay to have it tanned to sell at flea markets etc.
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