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Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on February 19, 2012, 06:26 PM:
Denise and i headed out at 4am yesterday to get to the bismark area before dark.. she's been coyote hunting quite abit but has always been SUPER cautious about shot placement and many have gotten away because she waits to long.so yesterday i told her to just get the Xhairs on and SHOOT!!!!!. I did the calling and she set up between 100-300 yards downwind. we walked into a spot about noon and when we got there,it was a tough spot. lots of tall grass with few shot opps. well we figgered we walked in 3/4 mile,might as well try. about 7-8 minutes in, i glanced her way and seen she was looking through the scope than a shot than 2 thumbs up.. i did'nt know it but a pair came in and she dropped the lead male at about 125. perfect shot,straight on and through the chest with her 22-250. i was stunned when i seen how nice he was. not a big dog, but he has the softest,longest,palest,ect. of any coyote i've seen this year. (maybe ever). she was really pumped about that one. we hunted hard and maybe walked 12 miles or so but she pulled a ?? in the back of her knee and could barely walk today. she did make it for the first stand this morning(about a 1mile in/out) but i could tell she was in pain so we basically took back roads home. it was a GREAT weekend with my favorite hunting partner ive ever had.
[ February 19, 2012, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: the bearhunter ]
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on February 19, 2012, 08:30 PM:
Have you sold any fur yet this year? Rumor has it that prices were surprisingly good for high elevation AZ coyotes at the sale here yesterday. Curious what you folks from the normally great white north are going to get.
Posted by Possumal (Member # 823) on February 19, 2012, 09:50 PM:
Beautiful coyote! Kudos to Denise.
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on February 20, 2012, 04:42 AM:
jimanez. coyotes are doing good $ wise. i've heard of some nice put up ones going for 70-80$. i've got 35 sitting at the canadian auction now and i think they start the bidding tommarow. i was hoping to build a nice garage/furshed this summer with my yearly fur check but the tranny just went out in my truck,so????
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on February 20, 2012, 08:07 AM:
just wrapped up the KS season and spent a while at the state association's fur auction Saturday morning. Doesn't really tell you much about your local prices, but the same trends apply. AS one of my furbuyers put it, it's been raining coons up north all season so the coon market fell apart a couple weeks ago and I watched beautiful XXL's go for under $10 Saturday. The best coyotes I had went for $25 a month ago, fully put up, whereas anything on the cob without any pink in the crotch was going for a ten dollar bill. At auction Saturday, skinned goods went as high as $38 for western KS lighter colors, and the middle of the road stuff was staying safely in the 18-25 range. Bobcats are on fire with even the rabbit back goods starting at $75 and up for us. Those with wide bellies, long belly hair, good spots and leaning more to the slate color in the back were rallied as high as $350, with a number going in the $275+ range. Someone somewhere wants them bad because we had two buyers going back and forth and it was pretty obvious that the one was spending someone else's money. If ours are selling that well, yours will be blowing the doors off stuff. Good luck.
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on February 20, 2012, 09:57 AM:
I wasn't there Lance, but I heard that bobcat prices were off the hook good this year, averaging between 3 and 4 hundy. Some fetching 800 and more. The number I heard for high country coyotes was $70 which is just unheard of since the early '80s.
I'm sure Koko knows more since the sale was right down the street somwhere. At any rate, sounds like it was a good year to be a fur collector.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on February 20, 2012, 11:18 AM:
Sadly, I missed the fur sale in Globe this year. They run a live auction and my hearing is such that I cannot follow much of what's being said. I normally ship my stuff to Groenewold. 815-938-2381. All of my fur is still in the freezers waiting for me to get up off of my dead azz & deal with it. With prices moving uptown, I'll have to get busy.
Posted by coyote down (Member # 2887) on February 20, 2012, 03:08 PM:
I had a friend sell his coyotes at the Colorado Fur Trappers auction a couple of weeks ago and his two high selling coyotes brought $105 and $95. I think the rest averaged in the mid to high $70's. Most of his coyotes were Colorado plains coyotes.
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on February 20, 2012, 06:09 PM:
i have 35 coyotes at NAFA now. bidding starts tommaro. kinda excited ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
my single otter brought 100.00 even today
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 21, 2012, 09:52 PM:
I'm thinking Mercer is going to really cash in. He mentioned that this is his best season ever and that was before the price went up. Hope he shares.
Good hunting. LB
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