2014-15 fur season pics

Well everything's all off the boards and cleaned up ready to head to the auction!

Dang thats impressive

Dont mean to pry, but curious, what is expected value of all that at the auction?

Hopefully enough to keep me going, never know with the auctions. Could be boom or bust or as expected. None of it could sell an sit there for another year and you make $0. There's a range from zero to 10k, lol I know that didn't answer much but that's the truth of it

Yep

I wonder how many deer lived bc all those yotes are dead.

And how much corn was saved from all those coons

Very nice indeed

How many nights work did it take to get all that fur....looks like every night for a year to me.

One last question. Where is this auction?

Impressive! Nice cats!!

I'm going to guess about 12-15k. Total guess though.

Mr.t you could call it a full time job with a lot of overtime

And I hope you right Brady but I got a feeling it will be much less this year, markets in the poo poo holder lol

Nice collection of hides.

do you tan them or preserve them ? how about a quick tip on how ?

nice haul sir, lots of hours in the shed right there.

Have you caught something so big or unique that you kept it for yourself?

I don't do any tanning myself, I just flesh and dry the pelts.

And yes I've caught some unique stuff, some cool coloration coyotes, badgers, I've got two bobcat mounts. But I don't really have any tanned fur laying around. There's 12 shoulder mounts and 15 ducks in the living room. I'm workin on my duck collection right now, fur is really a business to me and I usually sell everything or tan the cool stuff and sell it to people that see it and pay the right price. I've got 15 ringtails frozen whole in the freezer right now too

Lots of cool coats laying there

Very impressed, great job

Great photo...thanks for sharing it.

Whoa. That's impressive. I was always interested in the business ever since I was 8 and the morning after the first night we spent at a place my folks bought by Luckenbach, in '68, an old (late '40's/early '50's), blue Chevy pickup came rattling out of the BACK of our place and it was the old German (we affectionately call them "square heads") that had been farming the place, was getting one last night in spotlighting ringtails. He opened that door and the floorboards were full of ringtails. Dad let him farm the place 'til he died. Now, every time I see a ringtail (and that's purty darn rare) I smile.

Wow
I've trapped a-bit years ago in Oklahoma so I know how much effort and work went into that haul! Even thought I never came close to that kind of result if I had 3 cats I was happy.

It is a pretty heavy workload but I enjoy workin with fur so it's fun to me. Glad to be done for awhile though

sweet