Good bunch of buyers. Not that many beaver 200? But maybe about double that for cats. It looks like buyers are super interested in the cats.

Should be a SPOT WARNING when opening this thread

Looking forward to seeing beaver and otter prices compared to FHA today

Lot of well handled fur, wish our southern guys would catch on to that, see ALOT of rotten junk at southern sales, skew's the average's.

Look like some nice prime beaver there.
Are those black things your coypu skins?

Whew! Look at all those kitties!

Hope ya do well on your beavs amd other items BP.

Hope you do well on your beaver BP. Those your black otter, I mean nutes in the photo? Nice otter too.
Some big money in cats laying there!!

I'm hoping my beaver don't take a plunge from last sale I was at. To me FHA sale wasn't encouraging. They were definitely paying less than I got a few weeks ago for sizes I had. . Decided today to go to a country buyer in a couple weeks and see what he's offering .

I saw George Kortum weighing beaver today. Actually the nutria in the one pic were from Joel (western wildlife services). I brought them over for him. The four otters were mine though.

We’re waiting for our results right now. There were 450 cats on the sale probably most individually lotted so it takes alot of time. And after the office figures out who had the high bid the buyer is notified and has the right to go back and take another look and withdraw his bid if he so chooses. Then the second highest bidder is informed and given the same opportunity. This only happens on the high dollar cats I think.

Wissmiss probably knows more about it.

About 250 beaver and 86 otters on the sale. One guy brought in 50 otters.

One of our good otter buyers grading my goods. A member of the Modoc nation, he buys otter to cut into strips for hair ties used in the pow wow trade.

Very happy with my results. George Kortum bought most of my fur again.
$37.61 avg on 70 beaver and $69.41 avg on 4 otters. Another fur handling award for the otters. And $40/lb on my castor.

And now a 3.5 hour drive back home!

Nice work !

Nice BP.

Thanks guys!

Of course for the beaver skinning demo I put a big hole in a shoulder and tore the castors! Lol

great prices good deal! sounds like a good sale.i liked your fur that i seen at glens ferry very well handled excellant job!

Congrats BP!

Hey BP you didnt get any pictures of my award winning nutes in there. Sounds like a good sale -- one of these times I will be able to make it to one.

I think this might have been top cat. $1260 I believe. He did get a handling award for it. The back was pale and spotted too .

That's great BP I'm glad you got good money for all your hard work. Have a safe drive

Super

Yes,but a happy 3.5 hour drive!

BP great job on the otter and beaver !!

You made off like a bandit and wow what a cat, nice put up as well he should of gotten an award for that one.

It sounds to me like you made the right choice on where to sell. It sounds like selling by the pound can work on beaver. It just depends on what they pay per pound. Times have changed in the beaver market. Well done.

Looks like times have changed in the fur market. Notably better results in the country. Auction overhead (additional fees) are gonna price them out of the market. Not to mention North Bay is a “geographical oddity”. 2 weeks from everywhere.

Good sale Bp. It’s nice when a plan comes together.

That's about as wide as a bcat belly will ever get.

Super nice!

If I'd have sold my beaver by the pound I'd have left 20 percent on the table.

Carl, did you weigh your beaver by chance?

BP, sounds like you had a great sale, we’re not sure where we are going to sell ours this spring.

Any marten there? Must be marten in the cascades?

Great job beaverpeeler!

Comedy and a Tutorial all tied in together. I'm sure it was still a great Demo! I've seen your handling, hard to beat!

He did! OTC handling award for best put up eastern Oregon cat. I got one too for my otters.

It was a pregnant female that had been frozen and with thin leather and wet toilet tissue castor walls....y'all know the type. That's my only defense....still it was embarrassing, especially after my introduction by a retired game cop was way over the top concerning my beaver skills! LOL

Keeps you HUMBLE!

I did on the previous sale...just 5 pelts per size to get an idea and it would have worked out to 2.08 lb avg. For this sale a little more fur on them but I had more L and XL's than the previous sale ...so slightly smaller beaver. Probably would have been around 1.8 ...just guessing here.

Congrats BP.

Yes there are. Hardly anybody going after them these last years. I know somebody that sold 10 tanned cascade martens at this sale for a $55 avg.

Boco, thanks.

Calamity ALWAYS strikes at a speaking/demo event, lol. I was at a all black college giving a talk about beaver trapping, had a 330 set it, holding it by the spring eye i slid my finger in between the jaws to fire it off, done it 100 times no big deal BUT soon as it went off i guess that spring eye had a bit of a gap in it as it pinched a blood blister on my finger, hurt like the dickin's but i just gritted my teeth and kept on talking like nothing hapened, lol.

I guess you don't have to pleat those otter tails to win awards anymore? lol. Goofy NAFA and the crap they came up with!

I know I did better than most with my otter prices this year and a lot of it was because of the wide tail.

Any reports on averages

I saw them posted on FB. Not sure exactly where.

If anybody does the facebook thing please post those averages. I'd love to see them.

It’s under Idaho Trappers Association on FB. I’m not smart enough to share or link or copy any of that fancy stuff. Maybe some one can help me out.

^^^I'm glad to not be the only one!

Let’s see if this works.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=801299045366896&set=a.459586536204817

Fingers crossed

Carl - I figured it out just for you. Enjoy!!

Ive never been on Facebook so it doesn't come in for me. Just goes to a page that wants me to sign up for Facebook

I should always have Beaverpeeler take mine to the sales, almost everything went above averages. Somehow I sold a coyote for $36.13 didn’t even try and pin the tail out wide.

wws

I got $40 for my castor. People still send castor in ziploc bags that looks like fresh wet cow manure. That pulled down the average a lot.

wws' coyote looked kind of like the one that chases roadrunner around. Couldn't believe it fetched that!

And thanks Nancy (and Jtrap) for figuring that out. You're my heros.

Everything did great for me with the exception of a nice black tail on nutria. Only $3.13 for it. In Idaho I got $13.50 each.

Bp, is that $40 before or after commission? I was at 40 before, I think the castor I sent over looked pretty good.

Western Wildlife Services

"Before" on all prices I've mentioned. Your castor looked just like mine, got the same price.

Those wide tails display/ present the extra square inches well........ it's like a marten or mink worth of fur, almost!!

Very nice job.
Jim

yes very nice...those are what buyers want in put up

That's some good looking tails! craft buyers buying Nutria in Idaho not so much there

Never did the pleating thing. I enjoy those western sales. Knife work seems appreciated and they seem to pay for it. Not many options east.

Yeah, nutria came back down to where they've been stuck for years. Poor H20!

Those are fine looking otters mud.

...very well handled

It aint about the money, I'm just too dumb to know better . At least I didn't do 100 this year -- (time constraints). I am sure that my failing to trap this year will cause a huge shortage and a spike in prices for next year -- right?

Mud and trapped4ever, excellent job on the otters. I commend you for the hard work and pride in your finished fur product.