Fur peak (season) and dryin’ hangers

Hey Ed,

     What's the peak fer yote pelts?  Nov, Dec - remember readin that they go out of prime in Jan.  That don't make a lot of sense to me cause it's so dang cold here in Jan, Feb, and even march.

     Where's a good place to get hangers?  I'm use to the wire rat stretchers that adjust to fit their size. 

      What do you do to prep the fur, had a guy tell me the other day that they wash'em in a warshin machine!  Then hang them, blow dry and comb!  I'd get shot doing that in my wife's new machine - I ain't never done that sort of stuff before anywho?  What's the best practice to get top dollar fer pelts?

Spot

Blaine,

     Just might know how to skin a bit after runnin a rat line that took 250 to 400 rats a year growning up.  Fact might know how to skin real good since i were a taxidermist - hell I can skin a bird without stretchin the skin, n that's a trick.

  Anywho, talked to the local fur dealers, they said most the coyote are provided on the carcass (wierd) and they pay ten bucks, bobcat are 50.  He said if there done up nice the yotes go $15, and the cats up to 75.

  Don't think i'll be killin yotes lest they're on my bird ground, but there i'll be doin it serious like.  Cat's fall inta the same, not gonna go lookin fer trouble, but if they wander in the wrong range I'll smoke em.

Think he'd give me anythin fer wild house cat's!  Usually, not a cold blooded type, but wild cat's and dog's are an exception fer me.  Now wild means more then a mile from the farm / house. 

Spot

Blaine,

      Hmm, I knows about pluggin holes en such, what yer sayin don't mix with what the locals told me.  They said the dog's here are larger and worth more then what your shootin in NM.

    Now ya got me wonderin - I'll check with the Fur Harvesters of KS and see what they gotta say bout it.  Hell if what yer sayin is right I'll buy two or three tapes so I can learn right.

Spot

Blaine,

    Here's the link to the fur auctions from 2003 in KS with prices.

They do show some higher bid's.  Interesting.

http://kstrappers.topcities.com/furauctionreport.html

Hard to beleive a deer hide is only worth 4 bucks!

Blaine, how much them tapes of yer's on fur handlin goin fer?

Spot

Spot,.... Ther's some fur-buyers, what'll rob you blind if they git a chance,.... most often 'cause'a "lack of compitition" from other local buyers. Don't believe all ther cry'n, and whine'n,.... it's money in ther pocket if you sell cheap, and some of'em even consider it all "part of tha game". Blaine might even agree with me, when I say to expect lower "offers" for yore pelts from local buyers on an average. 

I'd suggest join'n yore "state's trap'n association" for more information on buy'ers, and auctions.

I'm already hooked up with the Kansas Fur Harvester, but man are you guy's right.  Blaine, NAFA's got a tape on how ta grade yer fur's, might have to get it if you don't cover it in yours. 

   Looks like history does repeat itself! 

 Half agin theives these dealers are.  (spit)  I'm gonna go to the auction if I have anythin to deal.  Mostly just the yotes I clean up from the bird ground we hunt.

Hey, any you guy's got use fer rattlesnake skins'

Spot