bktoys
Senior Member
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Post by bktoys on Jan 9, 2021 17:30:15 GMT -6
No longer am I a professional full time trapper. My body cant do it. But, my Grandson Ridge and Me caught a few coons, rats, possums, etc. We averaged 5 for coon and rats, possums a dollar, and castor, from 6 beavers sold for, to me, a whopping 91.00. If I was still able, at these prices i could still make it full time. Those days are gone. Overall very happy with Greenwald, and they were also nice people.
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Post by ozarkmountainman on Jan 9, 2021 22:29:01 GMT -6
Heard nothing but good about them. All of my fur is still in the freezer. I'll start working it up in late February I think.
And I feel your pain. I very much planned on a 100+ trap predator line. Not happening. I've caught 151 of the 500 'coon I'd planned on. Just too much work and pain involved. And I haven't even got to the water stuff yet. Sucks.
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Post by krank on Jan 10, 2021 9:09:23 GMT -6
Land trapping doesnt bother me (much) but that water trapping wears me out with the chest waders and heavy gear and climbing 60 degree banks.
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Post by silverfox on Jan 10, 2021 10:05:09 GMT -6
Land trapping doesnt bother me (much) but that water trapping wears me out with the chest waders and heavy gear and climbing 60 degree banks. \ Haha! How true! I met Gronwoeld in Licking yesterday morning. I sold 294 green coons. 2.25 doe 244 and .25 for 50 I broke even. 10 each for green otters 2.94 ave for finished rats $3 for a big buck mink pelt 20 each for 5 green yote pelts $5 for 13 beavers Whew! Glad to get that stuff out of here. I either lost a little or broke even. Great trip! Low markets are great for the fur dealer. Impossible to lose much!! |
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Post by ozarkmountainman on Jan 10, 2021 14:52:43 GMT -6
Sixty-degree banks... Hmmm. Flatlanders.
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Post by krank on Jan 11, 2021 7:25:12 GMT -6
OK...90 degrees...
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Post by segsarge on Jan 13, 2021 4:43:56 GMT -6
Had a young man (late teens) come to the gun counter a couple of weeks ago with his mother. She was looking for a .22 revolver he could carry on his trapline. We talked for a while and he was trying to trap predators. I drew him a picture of a dirt hole set and explained it needed to be bedded solid. Mom was back in a couple of days ago with photos on her phone of him with a pile of possums and one gray fox. I hope his fur sells high. Feels good to see a future trapper.
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Post by krank on Jan 13, 2021 7:22:34 GMT -6
There are guys thrilled about trapping and jumping in. Unfortunately, they are all on fecebook. One kid was on there saying he wanted to be a fur buyer and Peterman asked him who he planned to sell to.
You would think that these fur prices would drive down the price of traps but I am seeing used traps advertised for more than retail.
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Post by segsarge on Jan 13, 2021 20:39:50 GMT -6
If I had to start over I couldn't afford it. Last "new to me" traps I bought were at conventions, mostly Montgomery dogless. My trapping partner spent a bunch of money on DP's. I told him, "they're just a fad, they'll never catch on." Yeah, I called that one, huh? That year he caught a ton of coon and I struggled to make a decent catch.
Like most others here I been through the years of bad fur prices and trapped anyway. It's always been catch numbers to make money. Even more so now.
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Post by krank on Jan 14, 2021 7:18:01 GMT -6
I like doing some ADC work but there are some legalities involved (of which I do not understand) Catch a beaver and impress a landowner and get a new place to hunt. Hard to put a price on that.
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Goodbye 2020