It might shock you how many you end up with, our Louisiana Coon numbers have to be at an all time high from what I’m seeing.
Same here. I wish the prices were back like 2011 thru 2013. I averaged 14 bucks on coons at NAFA during those years and was trapping close to full time during the season.
Look up Colt furs, they make runs through the dakotas, Montana and into Minnesota. They have a route they run and would buy whole frozen critters or green skun as well.
Dismal, I heard gruenwalds aren’t doing fur routes this year. A pretty big buyer just to the north of us in MN isn’t buying coon and only very select coyotes. I’ve heard several guys say rats are good. But I haven’t heard a price.
Local buyer is making one run this weekend and then sitting it out for a while to watch market
Last year was the same if I'm not mistaken. There the only game left in twon here. Both local buyers here are gone. Shame the oldest likes to trap and I'd like to help the ducks and other wildlife out, but we'd be just trapping coons and tossing them aside. Doesn't seem right
Go catch a few and get them tanned. Only like $20/coon to tan. Make cool wall hangings plus the kids would have a ton of fun. I’d send you some traps but the few I have left give a coon way to much room to chew
I’m not much of a trapper, but a co. Worker is. He catches enough coon that groenwalds consider him a large lot seller and they come to his house to pick it up. But the last two years my co workers hasn’t, in his words, “messed with it.” But to him that is still catching 100 coon the first week and then being done. He was pretty down on himself for trapping any this year because he isnt going to be able to sell them. I’ll ask him today if he sold them and what his average was.
Got plenty of traps now, appreciate though!
