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Good luck out there. I'm waiting for the thaw also. I have some beavers I have to nab.

Nice haul! I just had some coyotes sell at NAFA for $96 a pop! Averaged $73 on my yotes, 7 fox at $55 average and 41 rats at $12 average. My coon go up in a couple days. I'm excited!

Last year was record high fur prices for the last decade or so. But yes, there was a big bust overseas dealing with buyers in China trying to avoid the 35% import tariff. A lot of guys are worried that this will reflect bad on this years sales and prices. If China decides to stay home and only...

I don't doubt that at all. There's a couple older guys around here that trap sun up to sun down from November 1st until Christmas and most years they clear $20,000 easy.

We do have some big coon here in Nebraska. There are several in the 35+ pound range hanging in that pile. I use a variety of traps, but most of the coons were caught in Duke dog proofs baited with marshmallows or cat food. Caught a few in dirt hole sets meant for foxes also. Last year at NAFA...

No, I don't. I have done a few furs for my personal collection but I ship 99.8% of my furs to the auction. At NAFA(North American Fur Auction) your furs are graded and put into lots with 1000s of other furs of the same grade. Buyers(China Russia etc) will then bid on the lots. After that, they...

Foxes, coyotes, bobcats and badger are dried fur out for the fur market. Most of the water critters are dried fur in, muskrats, mink, otter etc. Not exactly sure why coons are done fur in but that's just the way it is. It may have to do with the fact that the fur out animals are drummed to...

No, the fur is on the inside. Basically, you skin them and turn them inside out. Then you scrape the fat off of the leather, then slip them on a board and staple around the edges and pin the tail open. Once they are dry, you take them off the board and hang until you are ready to sell. You...

I'm a hobby trapper around my house. Its fairly easy to nab 50 coons, a handful of fox and a couple coyotes. Even landed 42 muskrats on my stretchers. Here's a photo of what my son and I sent up to NAFA last month for the January sale.