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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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02/24/24 02:35 AM
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What do you expect those bobcat pelts to sell for?
LETS GO BRANDON
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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Hard to say this year. Market is up on cats and beavers. They will be auctioned off in June up in Canada at an international auction. Past years our cats brought up to $375 but we've only sent about 5 cats up there, our best was sold to a buyer- should have sent it to Canada.
Best price a buyer has paid us is $250. Buyer gave us $125 each last year on 2 bobcats with ok bellies.
We hope these are worth at least $250 each. They have an auction coming up next month that will be telling on prices, not a ton of this years cats will be in it though.
Last year, still down year on prices, Western bobcats (linx cats) averaged $250 at the auction and highest paid was $1000. Our trapping mentor, passed now, once got $1,200 for a bobcat at the auction. Those were the glory days for trapping, about 10 years ago or so.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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Pulled our traps for the season this morning. All my snares had blown down, winds were gusting over 60 mph in the canyon.. Had a nice surprise, a pretty female bobcat in one of our new set spots for this weekend. She's getting fleshed today and I'll get her tagged and then boarded tomorrow. She tipped the scales at 19.5 lbs.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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02/25/24 10:10 PM
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Excellent thread Wytex. I sure appreciate you sharing your trapping and great pictures with us. I love when I can get a few weeks to go after critters at my brothers. We had a old timer teach us the tricks and methods of foot traps and snares, a dying trade and skills that are no longer taught or passed down. There it is just varmint control, but we have to stay on them.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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02/26/24 12:16 PM
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Very nice, ma'am. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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FHA had their 1st auction this past week and some furs are looking up price wise. Here are results of bobcats( lynx cats) and coyotes. Beavers did well too. We'll take $25 for our coyotes and hoping we get at least average for our bobcats in June.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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03/26/24 03:14 AM
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Lots of muskrats left over. Is that season ended, just beginning or is the inventory already very high? Beaver does look good. Huh, no southern possum? Got to be worth something. What about Texas rat? I can find a bunch of those.
No matter how high a duck flies a hammer still breaks a window.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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03/26/24 03:47 AM
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Rats did not do as well as others from what is talked about online. Here is FHA's take on the auction and final results for all species I think.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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03/26/24 10:24 PM
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What's the difference here between a Lynx and Lynx Cat? Lynx Cat = bobcat?
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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03/31/24 07:18 PM
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Yes, lynx cat is a bobcat. Have no clue why they are called that at this auction. Finished up our season on 2 more beaver. We think we put a big dent in our problem family. Big 48 lb female this morning and a medium sized male yesterday. Woke up to fog and about 25 mule deer all around the house this morning. Had 1 1/2 inches of snow yesterday morning.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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4 beavers, 2 coyotes and 3 bobcats off to the shipper this morning. They are headed up to Canada for the fur auction in June. Might end up with the coyotes at the tannery instead though, market is not good on those. Beavers turned out pretty nice. Keeping one beaver hide that has a few fleshing holes in it, going to get tanned.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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Just got word our hides at Moyle's are tanned and will be shipping out in a week or so. It will be a coyote, badger with front feet, spouse's moose waddle from 2021 and my mt lion I got this winter. Hoping they turned out great but will be surprised if they didn't, Moyle's does good work usually. I'll post pics when they get here.
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Re: Wyoming trapping,
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Nice, I used to trap Beaver, Nutria, Coyote and Coon down here in Texas. Never gets cold enough to make really thick fur this far south, always wanted to try my hand at trapping in the north country. Back in the 80's and early 90's though we made a decent price on big fat mamma coons down here. Those were the days...
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