Everyone cares about prices just some more then others, not a lot of folks jumping at 3-4 dollar coons but some are willing to deal with them in the $10 range if they have them that are worth that.

Some people depend on fur money for part of their income.You will see those trappers trap more fur when the price per pelt drops to maintain the necessary income to provide for their family.
In essence they are working harder for the same money.

I will contact my buyer in late Sept and see what he wants and then I will know for sure what I'm going after then, a guy just need to be prepared just incase he's the guy that writes the checks!

I think there may be a special GFW thread that gives the fun fur forecast. Coon trapping predicted to be extra double fun in 2019.

Everybody needs to be reminded that a couple of years ago nafa sold a lot of raccoon skins to speculators,AKA,"themselves", for whatever and with free storage for for awhile. Well, those skins (possibly one million) are still in storage. This whole delimna is not going to get better. Fashion, ranch mink,and lack of promation is killing the wild fur market. And the biggest problem is, nobody seems to give a sh*#.
Make that, Those that could be doing more are not.
40+ years in the business and very disappointed.

I wish you would expand on what you just said Terry. Could learn a lot from you.

The one advantage of fresh skins is they usually dress better as a whole than “stale” skins. Which is why I never understood why some buyers speculate on certain furs unless they know they can get rid of them sooner rather than later.

I promote my fur products. I guess that don't help the middlemen.

its good to hear there may or may not be a increase. But you can bet I'm still telling everyone they are worthless. Higher prices bring out the scum of the earth. Id like to know were those trillions of stored coon hides went? GRAND CANYON is the only ditch I know of that's deep enough!

The problem with the coon market is anyone with ambition can go out and catch 500 coon. Try that with cats or coyotes!

BATMAN wants ridge runnin boars and any good size incidentally caught ones.heck i'm thinkin of catching some that make the big tracks i've been walking by.between being smart and picky,i'll go with fresh goods with perfect put up and see what happens.just gonna go back to doin what i do and let the pringles fall where they may.try to get to a couple auctions known for peein contests between buyers is also on my list.

Even at bottom prices they pay better than possums and I don't complain when I get nice big boars in our sets here. I have a couple farms that want us to trap them too.

i should take my eastern butt to my sons house in Minot N.D. and catch real coon.

Thinking a $5 in the carcass nose count for 2x and up not a bad offer !!!

remember the movie caddyshack when the rich guy told the caddy the world needs ditch diggers too??i feel like "the world needs coon trappers too."

Wonder how many people toss their catch in the ditch. I mean, they don't trap for money.

HAVE NEVER participated in ANY of the dinner threads. Plus bet if we wanted to or even cared to look you have talked about a lot of things beside trapping on here. We all have .
But your comment just proved you don't fall into the whiney woman category , Your just a grouchey old Fa_t !!!!

I am guessing you really know nothing of the history that most midwestern/ northern trappers have had with GFW and their "fur outlook". Not enough information for most to be able to make a decision about what they will do when the season comes. It is not whining when you are skeptical of a fur report coming from someone who said last season that coon markets were non existant and that the beaver season would be the ticket. Have you ever caught enough coon to have a skin in this game? Paul has forgot more about coon trapping than some ever will know. Like me , he has seen a few things in his "old" age. lol, LLL

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Have you ever sold to GFW?