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Pa sale. Species Quantity Sold $ High $ Low $ Average Red Fox 711 65.00 3.00 43.63 Gray Fox 17 35.00 27.00 30.29 Opossum 154 8.25 1.00 5.29 Raccoon 1258 44.50 1.00 17.09 Muskrat 790 17.20 2.25 14.03 Skunks 17 9.00 2.00 4.81 Male Mink 108 26.50 7.00 20.90 Female Mink 44 17.00 10.00 13.57 Beaver 2 29.00 25.00 27.00 Coyote 6 30.00 12.00 24.50 Deer Hides 24 8.50 2.00 6.33 Squirrel Tails 22 .25 .25 .25

Here is an idea of what is being paid. Furharvester last week Species Offered % Sold Section Average Top Beaver 20,299 85% 34% 1st Section 3rd Section Overall $35.66 $7.10 $32.79 $74.00 Castoreum Grade #1 $50.00/lb Grade #2 $40.00/lb Grade #3 $30.00/lb Wild Mink 2,920 50% Overall $17.61 $24.00 Otter 904 85% Overall $60.33 $110.00 Muskrat 36,950 99% Eastern NWT $10.11 $9.34 $16.50 $10.00 Raccoon 30,551 35% 65% 45% 40% Canadian Minn./Wisc. Iowa East USA Bigger sizes unsold. $11.78 $31.47 $19.33 $10.26 $33.00 $62.00 $24.00 $12.00 Red Fox 1,199 100% 100% 25% Eastern Northern Central - Mainly Unsold $59.26 $86.94 $21.84 $110.00 $105.00 $30.00 Cross Fox 67 100% Overall $61.62 $78.00 Arctic Fox 633 100% Overall $50.82 $72.00 Grey Fox 470 80% Overall $28.65 $35.00 Coyote 3,263 24% Overall $56.90 $78.00 Timber Wolf 201 76% 55% Arctic Eastern $281.04 $100.91 $540.00 $200.00 Wolverine 52 54% Overall $259.23 $370.00 Black Bear 21 81% Overall $110.29 $290.00 Seal 1,078 42% Overall $37.92 $66.00 Weasel 9,395 Mainly Unsold $8.00 Squirrel 918 100% Overall $0.95 $1.80

They are a little work, but for $30-50 yotes, I will skin them!!

I do not like the blood in the head area. It is harder to clean off the fur and you get bone fragments. But I am talking trapping and a close shot thru the lungs ends it without the blood mess. When we are calling or running them with hounds, any shot I can get works.

I skin, so I do not do any head shots. If you dont skin then maybe

Depends on what you are shooting for a gun. Through the lungs or heart with a smaller caliber.

Good job. Trade ya a rabbit hunt for a hound and yote hunt.

If they catch a coyote on bare ground then I have top $$$ hounds..lol. I dont run sight hounds or Stags or greys. They will catch them when the snow is deep, but the snow is usually melting down by then and in the summer nothing.

Yes. Training season starts July 1-April 15

I run yotes until mid April. The only time they are really using dens is a few weeks before having pups.

CHASE THESE

Because I will wait for spring rats an mink. The k9 sets are hard to keep working when a foot of snow keeps dumping on them.

2 feet of fresh stuff here. Had to dodge deer all over this morning.

Great time of year for them. Cold has them moving and mating season is upon them...fur is selling real well also.

Not my best year, but not the worse

I also get it Grow. Very informative...but other fur has dropped. Coon really fell. Coyotes, fisher.

No bottoming out on fox. They are paying really well.

We kill between 40-60..some years more every year and never..ever..have a lack of them. Always seem to find a couple every weekend to run and go back the next year and start all over again.

Not sure up there, but we were down for several years around here. I have noticed this year they are plentiful.

They have been fishing up this way and north of me.

This was at Jefferson county Fur Harvesters last Saturday.

I USE TO HATE THIS ONE... I run coyotes with hounds. I live in the NZ where rifles have been legal to use for deer hunting. But if I ran hounds I had to get a special permit to carry my rifle. In the SZ when rifles could not be used during deer season then I did not need the permit for hunting coyotes with hounds...glad they tossed that law.