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Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:33 pm
by LeviM
well, hopefully most of the coyote market got cleaned out if alot of furs sold cheap.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:25 pm
by bucksnbears
i think dusty said alot if not most of the coyotes went un-sold. not good news for next year
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:58 pm
by LeviM
bucksnbears wrote:i think dusty said alot if not most of the coyotes went un-sold. not good news for next year
no its not
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:26 pm
by bucksnbears
the fur market appears to be following the stock market. how low will it go??
Dusty sais the market is really in the tank with coyotes-fox and coon really bad. heres a few pic's of his shop today. allot of 5$ coon and coyotes.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:58 am
by LeviM
he bought all those coon from a south dakota fur buyer a couple of weeks ago, it sounded like he wanted to get as much coon as he could
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:13 am
by bucksnbears
i don't think he bought them. i think he's just putting them up for the s.d guy but i'm not positive.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:48 am
by Fallguy
I talked to Dusty on the phone last night and he was honest with me about what the prices are going for right now. (I still have seven pelts I need to sell). I know it is late in the year but I gambled on getting more fur and probably should have sold some earlier. Oh well.
He said he is still one of the FEW buyers buying coyotes but I will be headed down next week to sell mine. Oh well I gotta put teh product to good use!
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:46 pm
by LeviM
your almost going to spend more on gas than what you will get for the furs
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:20 am
by Fallguy
LeviM wrote:your almost going to spend more on gas than what you will get for the furs
Well not quite! It's either that or try to find freezer space and beg somebody to let me store them. At least I can take some pride in bringing them in and having him tell me how awesome of a job I did of putting them up!
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:05 am
by bucksnbears
hell, the bull-shittin at the fur shed is worth the drive
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:10 pm
by bucksnbears
just got back from the fur shed and there was not 1 animal on the floor
. usually this time of year he's up to his a$$ in spring beaver. very sad that the coyotes did't sell on the auction. beaver trapping is hard work and people arn't trapping them for the low price beeing offered. seen a coyote sleeping of 194 250 yards out.all i had was a .22 lr.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:38 pm
by Prairie Ghost
fallguy i would give ebay a try. 5-10 dollars for put up coyotes is a crime i don't know that i could give them up for that i would certainly look at all of the options. If you have the funds send them off and get them tanned a few for the walls and the kids walls and sell the rest on ebay. Les Johnson sells a lot of his coyotes on ebay.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:57 pm
by bucksnbears
ebay may be the way to go to sell fur but i think even auction prices are down. . about 4-5 years ago before anyone or very few people did it i sold ALOT of whole frozen fox on ebay. most to taxidermist. i was getting average of 40.00$ for one. thats without shipping as the buyer paid for xpress shipping. i think i got 55-60 for some. this was when prices were 10-20 at the dealer. i even sold jackrabbits whole frozen to the jackalope makers. most went for 18-22$. was fun going out with a .22lr and shooting 20-30 day and getting 20$$. than ebay caught on and nuked me, pissed me off. i once had a post office in georgia call me and ask what i had in the box as there was blood coming out of it. i had sent a jackrabbit and somehow it got lost in the mail and thawed out. i think she was totally freaked. i don't do the ebay thing anymore as they've turned quite anti gun.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:44 pm
by Prairie Ghost
Ya i guess i don't have any expiernces myself but now of a lot of guys that have done it and liked the results.
Re: Dusty Hough Downer MN
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:12 am
by Fallguy
Prairie Ghost
Missed your email by a little bit. As you sent that advice about Ebay, we were at Dusty's selling our furs. Above is a picture of my son Jackson with our stuff.
We had two coyotes that on a good year Dusty said woud go for 30 each...two coyotes that were absolute shit...5 intermediate ones...a nice fox...and then a porcupine and a mink both in the round.
Any guesses on a total? All the canines were put up, and these were sold on April 4th.