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Re: Another Season

Postby MuddyWaterWarlock » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:30 pm

Any of you sold fur yet? Curious to what it is bringing.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:32 pm

My first auction this year starts on the 18th. Still waiting for my lot numbers from NAFA, which you can then use to track the sales live on the Interwebs.
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Re: Another Season

Postby MuddyWaterWarlock » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:34 pm

assateague wrote:My first auction this year starts on the 18th. Still waiting for my lot numbers from NAFA, which you can then use to track the sales live on the Interwebs.

Cool! I've heard good things. This guy might have to fire up again, even though its been thirty years.
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Re: Another Season

Postby BrewGUN » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:34 pm

Im not in it at the moment for $$, just population control and hopefully a badass throw for the bed.
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Re: Another Season

Postby jehler » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:07 pm

Eric Haynes wrote: How do I go about getting some beer from SBC?

don't bother, always finding knuckle hair in it :lol:
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Re: Another Season

Postby Tomkat » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:12 pm

jehler wrote:
Eric Haynes wrote: How do I go about getting some beer from SBC?

don't bother, always finding knuckle hair in it :lol:


Hey! I thought you couldn't drive and text?
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Re: Another Season

Postby rebelp74 » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:14 pm

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Eric Haynes wrote: How do I go about getting some beer from SBC?

don't bother, always finding knuckle hair in it :lol:


Hey! I thought you couldn't drive and text?

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Re: Another Season

Postby jehler » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:17 pm

Tomkat wrote:
jehler wrote:
Eric Haynes wrote: How do I go about getting some beer from SBC?

don't bother, always finding knuckle hair in it :lol:


Hey! I thought you couldn't drive and text?

I'm back at the computer, just finished configuring another monitor system we installed today cha-ching!
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:22 pm

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:
assateague wrote:My first auction this year starts on the 18th. Still waiting for my lot numbers from NAFA, which you can then use to track the sales live on the Interwebs.

Cool! I've heard good things. This guy might have to fire up again, even though its been thirty years.


According to NAFA, they have a record number of buyers registered for the sale. And generally, the higher the price of crude oil, the higher the fur prices. All signs point to me kicking myself in the ass for not pushing as many furs as I could have into this sale.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:18 pm

Well, this is it for this year. Pulled the last of my traps this morning. One more incidental catch for the wall. Like every year, I'm sad to see them go when the time comes. Just out in the barn admiring the fur wall. These are probably my best two all year. Nice deep dark red, very little frosting, and big.
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Overall, I was pleased as punch with the quality. Only had one with mange- that's the lowest ever, and goes to show that trapping does work. The first year in an area, you can expect to lose almost 10% with mange. But not this year.
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Finished with 27 grays, 22 reds, 25 coons, a couple skunks, a lot of possums, assorted wild cats, and a bald-fucking-eagle. Even with average prices, this should be my best year by far, fingers crossed. Kept my expenses low, and only trapped within 5 miles of the house.

Thanks for bearing with me. It'll soon be time to start with the garden pics again :lol:
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Re: Another Season

Postby 3legged_lab » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:20 pm

assateague wrote:Well, this is it for this year. Pulled the last of my traps this morning. One more incidental catch for the wall. Like every year, I'm sad to see them go when the time comes. Just out in the barn admiring the fur wall. These are probably my best two all year. Nice deep dark red, very little frosting, and big.
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1360894284.820198.jpg


Overall, I was pleased as punch with the quality. Only had one with mange- that's the lowest ever, and goes to show that trapping does work. The first year in an area, you can expect to lose almost 10% with mange. But not this year.
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1360894376.319924.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1360894390.835175.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1360894405.199495.jpg


Finished with 27 grays, 22 reds, 25 coons, a couple skunks, a lot of possums, assorted wild cats, and a bald-fucking-eagle. Even with average prices, this should be my best year by far, fingers crossed. Kept my expenses low, and only trapped within 5 miles of the house.

Thanks for bearing with me. It'll soon be time to start with the garden pics again :lol:

Good season Jim! I enjoyed the trapping posts.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Eric Haynes » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:24 pm

Did you ever tell me what people do with opossum hides? they seem ugly as fuck
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Re: Another Season

Postby jarbo03 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:32 pm

Nice job Jim. You gonna train that pup to be a fur dog also.

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Re: Another Season

Postby Fowlplay » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:35 pm

Eric Haynes wrote:Did you ever tell me what people do with opossum hides? they seem ugly as fuck

they use them to make peter parkas
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Re: Another Season

Postby rebelp74 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:42 pm

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Eric Haynes wrote:Did you ever tell me what people do with opossum hides? they seem ugly as fuck

they use them to make peter parkas

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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:48 pm

Eric Haynes wrote:Did you ever tell me what people do with opossum hides? they seem ugly as fuck


Nothing to the best of my knowledge. I don't even think anyone buys them. And they are about the ugliest creatures out there. Mine just get a crack on the skull and a toss into the woods. You can get $2.50 for a prime skunk, but I'll be damned if I'm going to skin one of those fuckers.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Eric Haynes » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:55 pm

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Eric Haynes wrote:Did you ever tell me what people do with opossum hides? they seem ugly as fuck


Nothing to the best of my knowledge. I don't even think anyone buys them. And they are about the ugliest creatures out there. Mine just get a crack on the skull and a toss into the woods. You can get $2.50 for a prime skunk, but I'll be damned if I'm going to skin one of those fuckers.

I get them around my house for some reason at night. I've trapped one in a live trap, but I couldn't get the thing to play possum. I literally opened the cage and grabbed him with gloves and just let him go. Never hissed or tried to bite. Just waddled off like a gangster.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Fowlplay » Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:57 pm

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Eric Haynes wrote:Did you ever tell me what people do with opossum hides? they seem ugly as fuck

they use them to make peter parkas

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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:00 pm

Coming to eat your trash, most likely. Possums almost never mess with a trap unless it's baited. I bait very few of my traps because of this (and the skunks). I think all season, I may have baited maybe 10 traps for a couple days each. I prefer just using lures. Lot less skunk, cat, and possum interference. But when you get a fox that keeps hanging up, one of the quickest ways to get him is to add another flat set, and bait the original set, I like to use canned mackerel.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Eric Haynes » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:04 pm

assateague wrote:Coming to eat your trash, most likely. Possums almost never mess with a trap unless it's baited. I bait very few of my traps because of this (and the skunks). I think all season, I may have baited maybe 10 traps for a couple days each. I prefer just using lures. Lot less skunk, cat, and possum interference. But when you get a fox that keeps hanging up, one of the quickest ways to get him is to add another flat set, and bait the original set, I like to use canned mackerel.

I used a piece of american cheese in the trap. I never knew they were in my yard until I left a garbage bag next to the garbage can. When I went out at night I saw 1 sniffing it. Got the trap and he was in it within 30 minutes. Only trapped it to see if it would play dead, but I couldn't make it do it. Guess I'm not scary enough.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:24 pm

That is strange. Must've been used to people. I occasionally feel bad when I chuckle to myself when they play dead. As I'm lining up a shot with the rebar. After whacking foxes and coons trying to rip my face off, spinning in 100mph circles, it's almost a relief to get a possum who just flops down, and lets you roll him over so you can see his head.
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Re: Another Season

Postby rebelp74 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:30 pm

assateague wrote:That is strange. Must've been used to people. I occasionally feel bad when I chuckle to myself when they play dead. As I'm lining up a shot with the rebar. After whacking foxes and coons trying to rip my face off, spinning in 100mph circles, it's almost a relief to get a possum who just flops down, and lets you roll him over so you can see his head.

What really sucks is a bobcat with that peice of rebar, I use a 3' peice of 3/4" pipe for mine.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:31 pm

I would imagine so. The only thing harder to kill with that rebar than a coon is a feral cat. Those sonsabitches can take a beating. I can't imagine what an overgrown one of those would take.
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Re: Another Season

Postby rebelp74 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:35 pm

assateague wrote:I would imagine so. The only thing harder to kill with that rebar than a coon is a feral cat. Those sonsabitches can take a beating. I can't imagine what an overgrown one of those would take.

Atleast 2 all you got swings but only when I forgot the 22. Ever hit a feral cat with a 22 between the eyes? They can jump about 10' straight up in the air, no over exaggeration.
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Re: Another Season

Postby assateague » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:41 pm

I believe it. It's funny how animals react to that. If I crack a fox in the neck, he dies quicker than a coon with a .22 in the forehead. Just don't get it. A lot of times, if the fox was small/young with tender skin, I'd just give them a tap on the snout to stun them and then stand on them, so I wouldn't tear the fur with the rebar. No fear of that with a coon. I've stood on them with both feet, and they'll lift me up and down with their breathing. It's insane.
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Re: Another Season

Postby rebelp74 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:46 pm

assateague wrote:I believe it. It's funny how animals react to that. If I crack a fox in the neck, he dies quicker than a coon with a .22 in the forehead. Just don't get it. A lot of times, if the fox was small/young with tender skin, I'd just give them a tap on the snout to stun them and then stand on them, so I wouldn't tear the fur with the rebar. No fear of that with a coon. I've stood on them with both feet, and they'll lift me up and down with their breathing. It's insane.

Coons are pound for pound the some of the toughest. Beavers are too. Foxes and mink are easy. Bobcats, coyotes, otters, and hogs get the .22 unless I forgot it. River otters are some mean little bastards.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Flightstopper » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:48 pm

:lol: good shit Assa. Look forward to the garden pics as well.
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Re: Another Season

Postby Goldfish » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:59 pm

Any possums I've ran across have never played dead. They hiss and get pissed as all hell, but don't just lay there

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Re: Another Season

Postby MuddyWaterWarlock » Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:22 pm

Stuck my hand in the dog food bag in the garage one evening, wish the possum in there would have played dead! Nothing a few stitches wouldn't fix though :thumbsup:
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Re: Another Season

Postby rebelp74 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:34 pm

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Stuck my hand in the dog food bag in the garage one evening, wish the possum in there would have played dead! Nothing a few stitches wouldn't fix though :thumbsup:

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