Xenia fur sale today! 2-14-2009

[trapperack]

OSTA fur sale today. Walk-ins welcome.

Lester Ison's Fur Company
1721 Turner Rd
Xenia, Ohio
Sale starts at 8am

[bmiller]

How'd it go? :D

[trapperack]

below is a list i copied from the osta forum. i didn't get to look over all the fur but we had a pretty good mix. some where put up real well and some not so well. there where even some coon in the grease. i think the guys selling them hopefully got the message that it pays to finish the job. over all there where about 50 sellers. imo it was a good sale. got to meet some new trappers and chit chat with some old ones.


Xenia auction results

Animal, average, high and number sold.

Beaver $12.13 $30.00 12

Coyote $7.79 $20.00 53

Gray Fox $24.40 $30.00 5

Mink $8.65 42

Male mink $15.00 35

Female mink $6.50 7

Muskrat $3.32 $4.50 600

Possum $1.68 $3.75 77

Raccoon $7.68 $16.50 1288

NOTE! Raccoons in the "grease" or green:

2 & 3X $9.87 $11.00 15

XL &LG $7.23 $11.50 129

Red Fox $13.46 $20.00 23

Skunk $3.13 $7.50 4

Other(gensing?) $0.56(ounce?) $20.00 58

Total of number pelts sold: 2162

Total sales $13409.80

[badger]

From what I'm seeing, those seem like pretty decent prises.

[hunterforlife]

those prices actually seem pretty good...I'm not familiar with fur prices at all...And i don't trap...But i've been trying yote&fox hunting this year with calls and it really hasn't worked out...But my question is if i shoot a yote do i sell it as a whole carcass or do i need to skin it out...Or do i get more money if i skin it...:cool:

[trapperack]

skinned is about the only way you are going to get much if any money from it. if you have never skinned one good luck. god put that hide on to stay! i would rather skin 10 coon as to skin 1 yote. this time of the year the fur value is almost gone as almost all yotes are rubbed out pretty bad by now.

[badger]

skinned is about the only way you are going to get much if any money from it. if you have never skinned one good luck. god put that hide on to stay! i would rather skin 10 coon as to skin 1 yote. this time of the year the fur value is almost gone as almost all yotes are rubbed out pretty bad by now.

Agreed, I don't like messing with the yotes. Give me coon and beaver all day!:bouncy:

[Nimrod]

Now you have me curious. What animal is the easiest to skin? Please only mention furs that can be sold (no rabbit, mice, etc.).

[bmiller]

muskrat is the easiest for me :bouncy:

[badger]

I think that is matter of what you skin the most. I haven't trapped any amount of rats for a few years now, so they take me a little longer than they should. On the other hand, I can pull the hide off a coon pretty dang fast.

[trapperack]

all but coyote are easy imo. rats are the easiest with coon a close second. on a average year i skin around a 100 of each. fleshing is a whole different story. much easier to flesh a rat.

[Buckrun]

I was going to go to this sale. But it was the same day as the ccw class I was going to take. So I sold my furs to a guy by Ottawa. I think I would have done much better at the sale.

Steve